Constellations

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Label
Alpha
Release Date
January 30, 2026
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Samuel Barber, Maurice Ravel, Dmitri Shostakovich
    • PERFORMER
      Ensemble Ouranos
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 30, 2026
    • UPC
      3701624511831
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA1183
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Prélude

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Ensemble Ouranos

    2. II. Fugue

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Ensemble Ouranos

    3. III. Menuet

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Ensemble Ouranos

    4. IV. Rigaudon

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Ensemble Ouranos

    5. Pavane pour une infante défunte (arr. G. du Cheyron for wind quintet)

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Ensemble Ouranos

    6. I. Slow and indolent

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Ensemble Ouranos

    7. II. Lively, still faster

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Ensemble Ouranos

    8. III. Faster

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Ensemble Ouranos

    9. IV. Tempo I - Joyous and flowing

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Ensemble Ouranos

    10. I. Largo

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Ensemble Ouranos

    11. II. Allegro molto

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Ensemble Ouranos

    12. III. Allegretto

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Ensemble Ouranos

    13. IV. Largo

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Ensemble Ouranos

    14. V. Largo

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Ensemble Ouranos

    15. Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Op. 29, Act I: Elégie, "Zherebyonok kkobylke toropitsa" (arr. N. Ramez for wind quintet)

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Ensemble Ouranos


Founded ten years ago, Ensemble Ouranos is now one of the best French wind quintets in the world. For this new recording, their first for Alpha Classics, Mathilde, Arnaud, Amaury, Philibert, Rafael and Nicolas have brought together composers and works that are particularly close to their hearts: Le Tombeau de Couperin glorifies the French wind school, and Shostakovich is their passion, so recording this transcription (by David Walter) of the famous quartet for the first time was at the top of their wish list. The two works have one thing in common: homage, since Ravel composed in tribute to his friends who died in the war, and Shostakovich to the victims of the Second World War. Another tribute - a lighter one - is paid to summer with Barber's superb Summer Music, the only original piece for wind quintet on this album. Added to this are Ravel's famous Pavane and an arrangement by Nicolas Ramez of the poignant Elegy from Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk