Ravel Scarbo from Gaspart de la Nuit performed by Nobuyuki Tsujii ラヴェル「夜のガスパール」より「スカルボ」 演奏：辻井伸行 Excerpt from the recital that took place at Salamanca Hall in Gifu, Japan, on July 19th, 2014
Are you kidding me? He is blind and he played brilliantly (WITHOUT A SINGLE MISTAKE) this inhumanely difficult piece. He is the best pianist I ever seen dude.
I agree totally, although Mazeppa is a much easier piece, actually. Fits well in the hand, and is very "tonal" by comparison. Even Pogorlich said Scarbo is a beast, and he didn't know if he could pull it off.
@@fredfeinberg3995 well mazeppa is not a "much easier piece." Imo at this level it's just about your personal strenghts. If you can play one of them well, you can obviously play the another.
I was overstating the case somewhat, and of course they are both ridiculously difficult pieces. But Scarbo is simply so nonlinear and unusual, with many different technical challenges, whereas Mazeppa has fairly common technical challenges, but at a very high-level, if that makes any sense. I have read through both of them many times, and there is no way I would want to perform Scarbo live.
I have seen a lot of videos of Tsujii´s performances, and I cannot get over the ease with which he makes absolutely wonderful music...and the thing that, on top of that, I simply find mind-boggling is the absolute ease with which he accurately jumps from one side of the keyboard to the other....extremely difficult for people with vision, but unimaginable for people without vision...Perhaps what he said (at least I heard that he once said that), i.e. that the piano seems to be an extension of his body is correct after all...do not even know how to begin to imagine that, but it seems to work! Wonderful musician! Thank you.
If this were audio only, it would have been impossible to believe a blind person can produce such performance, especially of that particular knuckle-breaker. But astonishing as the technique is, the musicianship is far more astonishing. Many, far too many pianists, all of them with perfect eyesight and some even famous, have bungled this Ravelian masterpiece. Not this guy. He captures the scariness to perfection. And blind at that! As another commenter said: "beyond incredible".
How this genuos blind peanist learns the written notes? I watched some of his biographical videos where he explained how he does it. Nobuyuki has a phenomenal musical memory. When he was one year old, he was able to repeat some melodies he'd heard on his toy-piano mother gave him. So, as a teenager, listening the certain musical composition. he was able to memorize the basic of it. But then he needed to learn all musical nuances, details, all notes of the musical composition using "translated" for him into a Braille form- copy of the original. Usually he had a musical assistant. It is very tedious, time consuming process, but for this fantastically gifted pianist it was never an obstacle! I am a pianist myself, but his total control over the keyboard is mind boggling! Along with his astonishing virtuosity and heartfelt musicality! Whenever I listen to his recitals, my heart sink! He is phenomenal pianist and I adore him!!!
Yuja Wang joue remarquablement cette partition très difficile de Ravel mais elle a ses yeux, Nobuyuki ajoute une plus grande finesse sans les yeux. Quel est donc ce prodige du cerveau qui ne risque pas d'être dépassé par I.A avant quelques millénaires. Il est certain que notre cerveau a été construit sur plusieurs millions d'années, il est déjà fabuleux , il faudra donc attendre encore une durée plus longue pour obtenir un résultat supérieur si le chaos ne survient pas avant.
Amazing by any standard, but *unreal* for a blind person! Anyone know how a blind person learns a score? Is there a special "Braille" form of music notation or something?
Conrad Sabatier I do believe there exists braille scores but Nobuyuki learns from recordings. He has a team of people working with him recording the pieces in different versions(hands separate etc)
@@Zerox029 Ah I wasn’t aware of that, I was wondering how he tackled this as well since I heard he learned by ear. Personally I use braille music scores to learn. Fortunately there are plenty of libraries now that provide such scores including Gaspard. I’m still astonished at how Nobu Yuki is able to pull off these fiendishly difficult leaps though. I found it relatively straight forward to learn compared to some other pieces but playing it is something else.
His technique seems really nervous and almost hard to watch... you can see his fingers shaking on the rests like he thinks he's about to make a mistake. Even though the rendition itself is a really great one, Tsujii is really laying it on thick with the dramatic _espressivo_ element. I know not everybody can make a piece like this look as easy as Argerich, but that'd be the next step to being a complete performer... make the performance element look more natural and relaxed. Other than that, great interpretation.
A bit lack of maturity. He should expand it more à 4mn45" for example, the most poetic part of the piece. Ii's about an evil, but sometimes funny dwarf. This is not all evil as the powerful rhythm suggest, one should leave some space for poetry.
