Ravel: Piano Concertos

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Alpha
Release Date
November 28, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Maurice Ravel
    • PERFORMER
      Nelson Goerner, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Kazuki Yamada
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 28, 2025
    • UPC
      3701624511626
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA1162
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegramente

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

      Performer: Nelson Goerner

      Conductor: Kazuki Yamada

    2. II. Adagio assai

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

      Performer: Nelson Goerner

      Conductor: Kazuki Yamada

    3. III. Presto

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

      Performer: Nelson Goerner

      Conductor: Kazuki Yamada

    4. I. Modéré, très franc

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Nelson Goerner

    5. II. Assez lent, avec une expression intense

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Nelson Goerner

    6. III. Modéré

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Nelson Goerner

    7. IV. Assez animé

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Nelson Goerner

    8. V. Presque lent, dans un sentiment intime

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Nelson Goerner

    9. VI. Vif

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Nelson Goerner

    10. VII. Moins vif

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Nelson Goerner

    11. VIII. Epilogue: Lent

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Nelson Goerner

    12. Lento -

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

      Performer: Nelson Goerner

      Conductor: Kazuki Yamada

    13. Più lento -

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

      Performer: Nelson Goerner

      Conductor: Kazuki Yamada

    14. Allegro -

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

      Performer: Nelson Goerner

      Conductor: Kazuki Yamada

    15. Più vivo ed accelerando

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

      Performer: Nelson Goerner

      Conductor: Kazuki Yamada

    16. Pavane pour une infante défunte (version for piano)

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Nelson Goerner


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".