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Ravel: Piano Concertos

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Details

Composer
Maurice Ravel
Artist
Nelson Goerner, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Kazuki Yamada
Format
CD
Label
Alpha
Released
Nov 28, 2025
Catalog #
ALPHA1162
UPC
3701624511626

About

Nelson Goerner has always dreamed of recording these two masterpieces of the concerto repertoire. With Kazuki Yamada, he has found the ideal partner to approach Ravel's two piano concertos with the sensitivity and poetry for which he is universally renowned. The two works, composed at the same time and both performed for the first time in 1932, are nevertheless very different: premiered in Vienna, the Concerto for the Left Hand was commissioned by the pianist Paul Wittgenstein who had lost his right arm in 1914; premiered in Paris, the Concerto in G is renowned for it's verve and it's famous pianistic interpolations. Ravel had composed the Pavane pour une infante defunte, a famous miniature of exquisite nostalgia, some 33 years earlier. The programme is completed by the Valses nobles et sentimentales; Marguerite Long, who gave the first performance of the Concerto in G, saw these eight linked pieces as a "stylistic panorama of the waltz".

Tracklist 16 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegramente 08:10
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegramente
    Duration
    08:10
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Nelson Goerner
    Ensemble
    Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
    Conductor
    Kazuki Yamada
  2. 2 II. Adagio assai 08:57
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Adagio assai
    Duration
    08:57
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Nelson Goerner
    Ensemble
    Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
    Conductor
    Kazuki Yamada
  3. 3 III. Presto 04:06
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Presto
    Duration
    04:06
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Nelson Goerner
    Ensemble
    Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
    Conductor
    Kazuki Yamada
  4. 4 I. Modéré, très franc 01:23
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Modéré, très franc
    Duration
    01:23
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Nelson Goerner
  5. 5 II. Assez lent, avec une expression intense 02:26
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Assez lent, avec une expression intense
    Duration
    02:26
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Nelson Goerner
  6. 6 III. Modéré 01:31
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Modéré
    Duration
    01:31
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Nelson Goerner
  7. 7 IV. Assez animé 01:15
    Track
    7
    Title
    IV. Assez animé
    Duration
    01:15
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Nelson Goerner
  8. 8 V. Presque lent, dans un sentiment intime 01:45
    Track
    8
    Title
    V. Presque lent, dans un sentiment intime
    Duration
    01:45
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Nelson Goerner
  9. 9 VI. Vif 00:46
    Track
    9
    Title
    VI. Vif
    Duration
    00:46
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Nelson Goerner
  10. 10 VII. Moins vif 02:46
    Track
    10
    Title
    VII. Moins vif
    Duration
    02:46
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Nelson Goerner
  11. 11 VIII. Epilogue: Lent 04:31
    Track
    11
    Title
    VIII. Epilogue: Lent
    Duration
    04:31
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Nelson Goerner
  12. 12 Lento - 06:10
    Track
    12
    Title
    Lento -
    Duration
    06:10
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Nelson Goerner
    Ensemble
    Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
    Conductor
    Kazuki Yamada
  13. 13 Più lento - 02:10
    Track
    13
    Title
    Più lento -
    Duration
    02:10
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Nelson Goerner
    Ensemble
    Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
    Conductor
    Kazuki Yamada
  14. 14 Allegro - 04:54
    Track
    14
    Title
    Allegro -
    Duration
    04:54
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Nelson Goerner
    Ensemble
    Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
    Conductor
    Kazuki Yamada
  15. 15 Più vivo ed accelerando 05:33
    Track
    15
    Title
    Più vivo ed accelerando
    Duration
    05:33
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Nelson Goerner
    Ensemble
    Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
    Conductor
    Kazuki Yamada
  16. 16 Pavane pour une infante défunte (version for piano) 05:53
    Track
    16
    Title
    Pavane pour une infante défunte (version for piano)
    Duration
    05:53
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Nelson Goerner