Olivier MESSIAEN | Roger MURARO · REGARD #6 (Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus)

Roger Muraro plays the Regard n°6 from the "Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus" ("Twenty visions of the infant Jesus") by Olivier Messiaen - "Par Lui Tout a été Fait" ("By Him Everything was Done").
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[@SimoneCarp]

I come back to Vingt Regards (and specifically to Roger Muraro's performance) about once a year. And everytime I conclude this is one of the highest feats human beings achieved around the concept of faith.

[@markking8292]

Wow--this guy absolutely OWNS this piece!

[@Itsukiemori]

鳥肌が立つ。涙もたくさん出てくる。

[@pianomanhere]

This may be the greatest performance from among the many I've heard of this great movement from Messiaen's pianistic masterpiece.

[@uhartchristian]

roger muraro started his career as a musician with studying the saxophone in Lyon. his parents did not buy him a piano. He started late the piano at about 12. He went to Paris to study with ELIANE RICHEPIN for many years and was finally admitted at the conservatory at the masterclass of yvonne Loriod. But he continued his studies during all this years with Eliane RICHEPIN. He was her most important pupil together with Pascal GALLET.

[@ianbentley7351]

Thank you!

[@prof.sirjeffreydarling-mil3463]

I have only partially memorised this work. It makes me feel very sorry for myself to this dude at work.

[@MIMDX]

An amazingly intense and insightful performance. A perfect rendition of the profound religiosity that informed the work of Messiaen. This is the 21st regard: le regard de Muraro. Stunning!

[@shoenberg3]

one of the best performances of any piece, by anyone

[@stefanoulhs]

Yes, maddindafirst, this (master)piece is EXTREMELY difficult, and this guy plays it in perfection, delivering a deep and grandiose performance. BRAVO!

[@verslaflamme666]

what a beast of a pianist to handle this insane movement

[@WolfgangWeller]

Großartig gespielt mit beeindruckender Technik und Musikalität. Intellektualität und Emotionalität gehen hier eine überzeugende Symbiose ein. Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Herr Muraro!

[@pianoman1857]

playing this is already amazing, but from memory ...

[@mischacarlberg6631]

I think it's hard to not play from memory, considering how incredibly difficult the movement is. You have to learn all the ins and outs of the piece

[@pianoman1857]

@@mischacarlberg6631 that was my point :)

[@mischacarlberg6631]

@@pianoman1857 I thought your point was that it was very hard to play this from memory, and I meant that it isn't, because this piece basically requires that you memorize it

[@pianoman1857]

@@mischacarlberg6631 oh ok, sorry you understood me well, and i didn’t. I was indeed saying that playing this from memory is very hard. But to answer to your point now, i would say that modern music is always very difficult to remember because your brain usually use harmony to know where you are. Here you can almost only rely on digital memory, that’s what make this music very hard to perform

[@mischacarlberg6631]

@@pianoman1857 I agree that modern music is a lot more difficult to memorize. However, I would argue that with a piece like this, the technical challenge is so incredibly big that you basically can't sight read it or play it in a short amount of time (I'm sure there is some mad wizard who can do that tho), which means you have to learn it really meticulously, and that means a lot of repetition, which means you will begin to memorize it. I've been playing this piece for about a month, and I've practiced the first three pages so much that I have them memorized already

[@gregoireigert7557]

Impressionnant... Et bravo Stephan ! So long depuis Salon !

[@123coolmik]

Seeing a piano from above is just so much more impressive

[@yagiz885]

Incredible interpretation! So smooth and spontaenous!

[@jeffsunbury3345]

Brilliant performance. Thanks for uploading.

[@tigro1973]

What an explosive performance! Thank you for uploading. I am definitely going to get the DVD!

[@joseluisarrabal]

Es una maravilla.

[@MegaLajeunesse]

Sublime

[@ianbentley7351]

Thank you so much for uploading this: now I know I have to buy the DVD!

[@InsertName125]

It's getting harder and harder to keep tabs on all the great players out there. It's frustrating. How did I not know about Roger Muraro? It's mind boggling to think of how many others are still out there that I'm still unfamiliar with.

[@patrickloiseleur]

His integral recording of Messiaen's piano music is great ! But he played Liszt and many other composers too.

[@hillabyvideo]

the most EPIC arpeggio at 9:41

[@prof.sirjeffreydarling-mil3463]

Yes, but hilariously there is a wrong note! No kidding! The first one, the F sharp, he hits two. Now, I really hate these bozos on youtube who criticise wrong notes by pianists. I only mention this because I found it so funny. He also does the same with the final chorale chord in number 20, adding a high C sharp, and I wondered if this was an addition put in my Messiaen in old age.

[@jacquelinesalvin7158]

the Parisian building where Messiaen lived, and at the very end of the video a Japanese blackbird.. (A place that M. Muraro knows much better than our amateur pianist guide. But he also knows this guide, he calls him "le motard de Petichet") kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6rVmK2JgtmLhaM

[@chu71]

Yup - Good work

[@JuddNiemann]

Wow

[@maddindafirst]

this must be the fucking most difficult peace in the world- 5:52

[@gabrielkaz5250]

7:05

[@InsertName125]

Not exactly "contemporary". It was written in 1944.

[@not2tees]

Well, your comment was made in 2013 . . .

[@fandefrancoisasselineau9716]

Voici un pianiste Français soutenant l'Œuvre d'un compositeur français. Sur les 22 commentaires précédents, 0 en langue française. En France la surdité musicale est légion malheureusement.

[@christophegeoffroy4281]

Mais non mais non.

[@christophegeoffroy4281]

Sorry can you say it in english ?

[@kakapoopi]

What about the piece do you not like? Is it the avant-garde, contemporary style in general, or is this piece just "too much"? I know many people who dislike messiaen, but in particular, they cant stand Vingt Regards. I would be interested in hearing your point of view.

[@prof.sirjeffreydarling-mil3463]

I love it dude

[@maddindafirst]

i think he plays the beginnig too fast. you can hardly hear the melody lines, i like Håkon Austbø´s record more. nevertheless this perfection at this speed is really admirable ;)

[@not2tees]

Would Baby Jesus have appreciated this? Maybe, but there's room for doubt.

[@cosmicostrich3657]

Baby Jesus would totally dig this

[@MTabla]

If I had his technique, I'd rather expend that kind of effort learning / performing Alkan, Rachmaninov, or Liszt or perhaps a virtuosic piano transcription of a familiar melody such as a Strauss waltz from the gilded age of concert virtuosi. Modern repertoire like this is going to have a very limited audience and isn't likely to become a perennial favorite beyond the halls of the conservatory among casual ticket-buying concert goers as Stephen Hough and Marc-Andre Hamelin well know.

[@MarcusHK1]

+mta3000 I think the role of an interpreter can also be to extend the current repertoire and promote lesser known works.

[@sshuck]

+mta3000 So, you're basically coming here and telling the limited audience you aren't interested in serving that even if you could, you wouldn't serve them.

[@akoustika5708]

mta3000 you clearly dont know the current audience for classical music.

[@chazinko]

Messian's Vingt Regards is for an elite class of pianists, Michel Beroff, John Ogdon, Yvonne Loriod, Peter Serkin and Aimard, to name a few, just as Rzewski's Variations on "The People United Will Never Be Defeated" is for pianists in the caliber of Hamelin. Think of these works like Beethoven's Hammerklavier or Diabelli Variations but for the 20th Century.

[@exequielchuaqui5968]

You dirty little sell out you …

[@davidscott7252]

i don't really like the piece's idea

[@prof.sirjeffreydarling-mil3463]

I am sorry

[@christophegeoffroy4281]

This maybe more than an idea.

[@MegaLajeunesse]

Sublime