Gaspard de la nuit

Maurice Ravel

Ivo Pogorelich /

1982

Gil's first choice (coupled with Prokofiev 6). 'Wonderful, beautiful color and tone, very probing poetically, dramatic and virtuosic.' He 'wonderfully colors the different moods of the work.' 'Excellent version.'

Samson François /

1967

François has a 'very dramatic style... very emotive and assertive. Flamboyant even.' The last movement (Scarbo) is 'particularly intense and dramatic.' 'Pretty well recorded.'

Martha Argerich /

1974

An 'excellent version' with 'customary virtuosity, strong tone,' and 'very impassioned, very colorful' playing. 'Good sound.'

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli /

1959 Live in London

A 'wonderful interpretation' that is 'really evocative, kind of transports you to this different world.' Michelangeli's technical skill allowed his 'creativity [to] come out' in this 'gorgeous and exciting' live performance.

Walter Gieseking /

early 1950s

A 'colorful, characterful version' of Gaspard, part of a larger Ravel collection (including Miroirs and Jeux d'eau) in mono.