RAVEL - CONSTANT Gaspard de la Nuit OSF - L.PETITGIRARD 

It was a classical tubular games instrument but the fact to record le Gibet in the Libanese Church in Paris was perfect for the cd. Compare the sound of the TV Studio and the sound of the CD (Play List Conductor's Discography) Best regards. Laurent Petitgirard

@@Petitgirard1 thanks!

Thank you very much, we did the world premiere recording of this piece with my dear friend Marius Constant in the cabine.

Since I create it at the request of Marius Constant, I did conduct it almost 20 times all over the world. Eschenbach, Conlon and a few other conductors did it but not very often. Scarbo is extremly difficult for the orchestra and you need a few rehearsales. But unfortunatly I believe that the main reason is that as well Ondine, Le Gibet and Scarbo finish pianissimo and does not call for a major public excitation, it is a pity. I did a few concerts with my friend Jean-Philippe Collard with him playing Ondine at the piano, than the orchestra played the orchestral version etc... including Pictures at an Exhibition, and this was very exciting for the audience to compare both versions.

@@Petitgirard1 I'm glad for the answer sir. I'm excited to listen your other works. I wish I could experience one of your live concert but sadly I live in Turkey....

@@Petitgirard1 wow, can you do a concert in sudan form my people? It could be amazing

@@NINOGIANLUCA The problem is wich orchestra ?

Why do you think it's underrated? It's one of Ravel's most famous and popular pieces.

Lol

Ondine is very in Ravel's style of orchestration. Le Gibet a little less and Scarbo quite different. But to create it with my firend Marius Constant was very exciting.

Me either and I have an honours music degree

I agree with you for Ondine which is indeed close to Ravel's orchestration, Le Gibet is already a little more special and Scarbo is quite different, this explain why Ravel did not orchestrate him self Gaspard de la Nuit, Scarbo seems to him too pianistic.

Scarbo requires an extremly reactive orchestra...

@@Petitgirard1 yea, i can imagine

Pardon de vous répondre un peu tard. La plupart d'entre eux ont rejoint les grands orchestres français, National, Philharmonique, Opéra, Orchestre de Paris, ONDIF, Florent Héau et Jean Ferrandis font de magnifiques carrières de solistes et de professeurs. François-Xavier Roth est devenu un chef d'orchestre incontournable et je pense que son expérience avec l'OSF, où j'ai d'ailleurs été le premier à lui mettre une baguette dans les mains, l'a inspiré pour créer son bel orchestre Les Siècles.

@@Petitgirard1 merci pour toutes ces précisions. Je ne savais pas Roth avait fait partie de votre orchestre.

Eliophone, other name WindMachine, you may here it in Ravel's Daphnis and Chloé, many modern composers used it, I did use it in my Ballet SI YEOU KI.

Ravel used it also in his opera “L’enfant et les sortiléges”

agreed! I was looking for this comment

Gaspard de la Nuit is a piano piece in 3 parts composed by Ravel who never orchestrated it. My very dear friend Marius Constant wrote the orchestration (with the publisher Durand authorization) in 1989 and I conducted the first recording and the world premiere in 1990. So you do a confusion, Gaspard was first a piano solo piece and was orchestrated 80 years later.

@@Petitgirard1 Oh, I am sorry.

@@Petitgirard1 maybe what he's trying to say that this thing is composed in a way that treats the piano like an orchestra?