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Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 / Trevino, Basque National Orchestra
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Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 / Trevino, Basque National Orchestra

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Details

Composer
Maurice Ravel
Artist
Basque National Orchestra
Format
CD
Label
Ondine
Released
Nov 04, 2022
Catalog #
ODE 1416-2
UPC
761195141625

About

Robert Trevino’s first album together the Basque National Orchestra featuring orchestral works by the great French-Basque composer Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) received an excellent response. The program in this second volume is perhaps more ‘French’ in nature, but the Basque orchestra is giving dazzling performances of these works by their own national composer. While the first album was focused on some of Ravel’s most popular orchestral works, this album includes some rarities, including Ma mère l’Oye (Mother Goose) in its complete ballet version, as well as one world première recording: Pierre Boulez’s orchestration of Ravel’s World War I-era piano work, Frontispice.

REVIEW:

Can we ever have enough Ravel? Certainly not when the performances are this good. For the second disc in his traversal of Ravel’s orchestral works, Robert Trevino and the Basque National Orchestra offer an enticing mix of familiar and unfamiliar items. You get an aptly crystalline performance of the elusive Valses nobles et sentimentales, fortified by an appealing lightness of rhythm, followed by the zillionth version of the unkillable Menuet antique. Frontispice, a tiny “avant-garde” work originally written for piano five-hands, and here orchestrated by Pierre Boulez, comes off sounding very much like, well, Pierre Boulez. So now we know where he got much of his own inspiration.

The Shéhérazade Overture, Ravel’s first big orchestral work, seldom gets played and the reasons aren’t surprising. It’s long (14 minutes here), kind of formless, and lacking in memorable ideas, but of course the orchestration is marvelous and it’s good to have such a vivid new recording and performance. Finally, there’s the complete Mother Goose ballet, one of Ravel’s major masterpieces. This version is gorgeous, nicely flowing in the main numbers, and full of atmosphere in the evocative interludes between them. Trevino wisely refuses to sentimentalize the concluding “Fairy Garden,” which sounds so much more touching for just that reason. In short, this is a lovely, interesting program that offers far more than the “same old Ravel.” It’s a keeper.

-- ClassicsToday.com (David Hurwitz)

Tracklist 23 tracks

  1. 1 I. Modéré 01:22
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Modéré
    Duration
    01:22
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  2. 2 II. Assez lent 02:58
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Assez lent
    Duration
    02:58
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  3. 3 III. Modéré 01:26
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Modéré
    Duration
    01:26
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  4. 4 IV. Assez animé 01:25
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Assez animé
    Duration
    01:25
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  5. 5 V. Presque lent 01:28
    Track
    5
    Title
    V. Presque lent
    Duration
    01:28
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  6. 6 VI. Assez vif 00:57
    Track
    6
    Title
    VI. Assez vif
    Duration
    00:57
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  7. 7 VII. Moins vif 02:46
    Track
    7
    Title
    VII. Moins vif
    Duration
    02:46
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  8. 8 VIII. Epilogue: Lent 04:18
    Track
    8
    Title
    VIII. Epilogue: Lent
    Duration
    04:18
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  9. 9 Menuet antique (version for orchestra) 06:54
    Track
    9
    Title
    Menuet antique (version for orchestra)
    Duration
    06:54
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  10. 10 Frontispice (arr. P. Boulez for orchestra) 02:07
    Track
    10
    Title
    Frontispice (arr. P. Boulez for orchestra)
    Duration
    02:07
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  11. 11 Shéhérazade, Ouverture de féerie 14:19
    Track
    11
    Title
    Shéhérazade, Ouverture de féerie
    Duration
    14:19
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  12. 12 Prélude 03:59
    Track
    12
    Title
    Prélude
    Duration
    03:59
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  13. 13 Tableau 1: Danse du Rouet et Scène 02:02
    Track
    13
    Title
    Tableau 1: Danse du Rouet et Scène
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  14. 14 Interlude: Un peu moins animé 01:41
    Track
    14
    Title
    Interlude: Un peu moins animé
    Duration
    01:41
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  15. 15 Tableau 2: Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant 01:26
    Track
    15
    Title
    Tableau 2: Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant
    Duration
    01:26
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  16. 16 Interlude: Plus lent 01:07
    Track
    16
    Title
    Interlude: Plus lent
    Duration
    01:07
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  17. 17 Tableau 3: Les entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête 04:23
    Track
    17
    Title
    Tableau 3: Les entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête
    Duration
    04:23
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  18. 18 Interlude: Lent I 01:04
    Track
    18
    Title
    Interlude: Lent I
    Duration
    01:04
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  19. 19 Tableau 4: Petit Poucet 04:12
    Track
    19
    Title
    Tableau 4: Petit Poucet
    Duration
    04:12
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  20. 20 Interlude: Lent II 01:44
    Track
    20
    Title
    Interlude: Lent II
    Duration
    01:44
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  21. 21 Tableau 5: Laideronnette, Impératrice des Pagodes 03:36
    Track
    21
    Title
    Tableau 5: Laideronnette, Impératrice des Pagodes
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  22. 22 Interlude: Allegro 01:28
    Track
    22
    Title
    Interlude: Allegro
    Duration
    01:28
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  23. 23 Tableau 6: Apothéose (Le jardin féerique) 04:12
    Track
    23
    Title
    Tableau 6: Apothéose (Le jardin féerique)
    Duration
    04:12
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño