Inna Faliks: Translating Imagery into Sound in Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit (May 18)
Ravel said about Gaspard "My ambition is to say with notes what a poet expresses with words." Indeed, Inna Faliks takes us into the depths of this piece and the true meaning behind the notes.
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Join Inna Faliks, Professor and Head of Piano at UCLA, for an exploration of one of the great masterpieces of the piano literature, Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit. Faliks will focus on transcending the work's technical difficulties by focusing capturing the right atmosphere in each passage.
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Inna was awesome today! Can't wait to work with her again. Wanted to drop a few links related to her and some of the recordings/projects she mentioned today:
- Profile at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
- Link to website
- First commercial recording, featuring Gaspard and Rach 2nd Sonata
- "Reimagine Beethoven and Ravel" (Upcoming Gaspard-related project on Navona Records.
- Video about this project
- Another disc, released 3 weeks ago, is Schumann Project Volume 1 (Clara Schumann Sonata in G minor, Robert Schumann Symphonic Etudes)
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BIG thank you to Inna and Tonebaee for this wonderful presentation. Inna gave an incisive and educational lecture on painting the palette of Ravel in the entire GASPARD suite. Her performance of the work presented colours, moods, atmosphere and curiosity that instill in the students the courage to explore this wonderful yet devilishly difficult work. 5 STARS!
