Le Gibet ~ Gaspard de la Nuit [M. Argerich]

Marta Argerich performs Le GIbet from Gaspard de la Nuit, composed by Maurice Ravel in 1908 inspired on the writings of Aloysius Bertrand (1836). **“Ah! that which I hear, was it the north wind that screeches in the night, or the hanged one who utters a sigh on the fork of the gibbet? Was it some cricket who sings lurking in the moss and the sterile ivy, which out of pity covers the floor of the forest? Was it some fly in chase sounding the horn around those ears deaf to the fanfare of the halloos? W