Maurice Ravel
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Ravel: Songs / Mula, Millot, Brua, Naouri, Abramovitz, Et Al
Includes song(s) by Maurice Ravel. Soloists: Inva Mula-Tchako, Valérie Millot, Claire Brua, Gérard Théruel, Laurent Naouri, David Abramovitz.
RAVEL: SYMPHONIC WORKS
Ravel: Piano Works / Vlado Perlemuter
"I’m convinced that Perlemuter’s Ravel is the best of him in [his] Nimbus recordings, more even than the raft of Chopin performances. Miroirs is a delight; Noctuelles is full of evocative precision, and the poetic sensitivity he evinces is propelled with unselfconscious control in these early, 1973 recordings made in the studio. Textual control radiates outwards from these traversals. As for Gaspard there’s a total lack of fuss in Ondine – but the avoidance of artifice is a function of the poetic hauteur that gives such meaning to his playing. His Sonatine is crisp, the Valses animated by an especially witty Vif whilst Le Tombeau de Couperin moves with grace and deft accentuation, a notch slower than the BBC 1970 broadcast that has circulated. Seeking an analogue, this is the kind of pointillist playing George Copeland brought to Debussy, in contradistinction to Gieseking’s Turneresque wash; both wonderful but both very different. Perlemuter’s Ravel is a breath of fresh air."
-- Jonathan Woolf, MusicWeb International
Ravel: Orchestral Works
Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
It is also available on standard CD.
Maurice Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales present a vivid mixture of atmospheric impressionism, intense expression and modernist wit, his fascination with the waltz further explored in La valse, a mysterious evocation of a vanished imperial epoch. Heard here in an orchestration by Marius Constant, Gaspard de la nuit is Ravel’s response to the other-worldly poems of Aloysius Bertrand, and the dance suite Le tombeau de Couperin is a tribute to friends who fell in the war of 1914–18 as well as a great 18th-century musical forbear. ‘It is a delightful and assorted collection…presented in splendid performances by the Orchestre National de Lyon led by their music director, the venerable American conductor Leonard Slatkin.’
RAVEL: Daphnis and Chloe
RAVEL:ORCHESTERWERKE
The Best Of Ravel
Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5 / Deneve, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
This album is the fifth and final installment of Maurice Ravel's Orchestral Works, bringing to a close the highly acclaimed cycle by the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart and its chief conductor Stephane Deneve. Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortileges is the second of his two operas and is considered a neglected masterpiece. The libretto is by the famous French author Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette.
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales - La valse - Daphnis e
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales - La valse - Daphnis e
Ravel: Orchestral & Virtuoso Piano / Vincent Larderet
It is Vincent Larderet's passion and artistic goal to achieve such musical and pianistic accuracy through a close reading of the annotations in Perlemuter's own edition of Ravel's works. Larderet focuses on two critical aspects of Ravel's musical language: firstly, the composer's engagement with various traditions of virtuosity and secondly, Ravel's specific ideas regarding orchestration and the orchestral character of his piano style.
Ravel: Works for Solo Piano / Barto
Ravel: Piano Trio, Sonata For Violin And Cello, Violin Sonata / Trio Dali
In residence at Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth with the Artemis quartet, the Dali trio is a French ensemble of an exceptional level, rewarded with numerous prizes in Japan, Germany and the Unites-States in 2008. Amandine Savary, Vineta Sareika and Christian-Pierre La Marca, adding to their intense solo schedule, devote a large part of their wonderful energy to make up the trio, which is already leading them to the four corners of the world. By capturing the brilliance of their youthfulness, the subtleties of their tones, and their apparently endless quest for perfection, Fuga Libera and Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth have cooperated to make known one of tomorrow's great trios, in a repertoire comprising three summits of Maurice Ravel's production.
Ravel: Complete Piano Works / Alice Ader
Alice Ader’s first Debussy disc (Erato) won all the awards in the specialist press on its release twenty years ago and is still regarded as an unequalled benchmark. Now this unconventional pianist at last unveils her recording of the complete Ravel piano works. And what better moment could there be than Debussy Year to present these two hours or so of music in dialogue, en Miroirs as it were, with the œuvre of ‘Claude de France’? Ravel, the hot-blooded Swiss watchmaker, the discreet Lisztian, the mediocre pianist who made such extreme demands on his colleagues, the man of so many sublime paradoxes, deserves only the finest interpreters: those who take the time to explore his deepest recesses. Alice Ader, light-years away from the flashy gestures often encountered in this music, takes us to the very heart of one of the most secretive composers of his time.
DAPHNIS ET CHLOE, LA VALSE
Piano Music: Grand-Mondain
Ravel: Bolero; La Valse; Rhapsodie Espagnole; Menuet Antique; Ma Mere L'oye / Boulez
--David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com Reviewing earlier release
Music From Marlboro – Ravel: Piano Trio, Sonata For Violin And Cello
To music lovers throughout the world, the Marlboro Music festival represents a unique gathering place for some of the most distinguished and gifted musicians of our time. founded in 195I, Marlboro has come to be recognized as perhaps the world’s only fully professional center for advanced musical studies. Located at the end of a country road in the beautiful Green Mountains of Vermont, Marlboro is a place where the young professional and the master artist rehearse and perform together on an equal basis. There, everyone can get away from normal routines and pressures to explore together new repertoire, exchange ideas, and cultivate the art of chamber music. In the words of one critic, this extraordinary community of artists has become “perhaps the highest concentration of artistic activity, of whatever kind, that takes place anywhere, anytime, in the U.S. and possibly the world.”
Ravel: L'Heure espagnole & Don Quichotte a Dulcinee / Slatkin
CENTURY FRENCH: RAVEL
Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4 - Daphnis et Chloe / Slatkin, Spirito, Lyon National Orchestra
Composed for Sergey Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Ravel’s ‘symphonie chorégraphique’ Daphnis et Chloé is based on a classical Greco-Roman love story set on the island of Lesbos. He described the work as ‘a vast musical fresco’, and with its extraordinarily passionate music, lush harmonies and orchestration, is considered both his masterpiece and the epitome of Impressionism in music. Orchestrated from the third of his Miroirs for piano, Ravel’s Une barque sur l’océan is an evocative portrayal of the ever-changing moods of the sea.
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REVIEWS:
This performance and recording comes close to fulfilling all of Ravel’s requirements. Slatkin paces the score admirably, even when he sets a spanking pace for the opening of the pirates’ dance. The orchestra find no difficulties in coping with the articulation of the notes here or in the final dance. I would put this Daphnis high on the list of currently available recordings.
– MusicWeb International
The shimmering orchestration and lush harmonies that epitomize impressionism are lovingly rendered by Slatkin and the French orchestra. While Daphnis et Chloé is most often presented as two suites for orchestra, this performance also includes the atmospheric choral parts, sung by Spirito, a body consisting of the Choruses and Soloists of Lyon and the Britten Chorus. Naxos provides remarkably clear and deep sound, so the finer points of Ravel’s scores are easily heard.
– All Music Guide
Ravel: Complete Solo Piano Works
Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol. 6
