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

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Label
Ondine
Release Date
November 4, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Maurice Ravel
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Basque National Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Basque National Orchestra
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 04, 2022
    • UPC
      761195141625
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ODE 1416-2
    • LABEL
      Ondine
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Modéré

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Basque National Orchestra

      Conductor: Robert Treviño

    2. II. Assez lent

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Basque National Orchestra

      Conductor: Robert Treviño

    3. III. Modéré

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Basque National Orchestra

      Conductor: Robert Treviño

    4. IV. Assez animé

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Basque National Orchestra

      Conductor: Robert Treviño

    5. V. Presque lent

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Basque National Orchestra

      Conductor: Robert Treviño

    6. VI. Assez vif

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Basque National Orchestra

      Conductor: Robert Treviño

    7. VII. Moins vif

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Basque National Orchestra

      Conductor: Robert Treviño

    8. VIII. Epilogue: Lent

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Basque National Orchestra

      Conductor: Robert Treviño

    9. Menuet antique (version for orchestra)

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Basque National Orchestra

      Conductor: Robert Treviño

    10. Frontispice (arr. P. Boulez for orchestra)

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Basque National Orchestra

      Conductor: Robert Treviño

    11. Shéhérazade, Ouverture de féerie

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Basque National Orchestra

      Conductor: Robert Treviño

    12. Prélude

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Basque National Orchestra

      Conductor: Robert Treviño

    13. Tableau 1: Danse du Rouet et Scène

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Basque National Orchestra

      Conductor: Robert Treviño

    14. Interlude: Un peu moins animé

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Basque National Orchestra

      Conductor: Robert Treviño

    15. Tableau 2: Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Basque National Orchestra

      Conductor: Robert Treviño

    16. Interlude: Plus lent

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Basque National Orchestra

      Conductor: Robert Treviño

    17. Tableau 3: Les entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Basque National Orchestra

      Conductor: Robert Treviño

    18. Interlude: Lent I

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Basque National Orchestra

      Conductor: Robert Treviño

    19. Tableau 4: Petit Poucet

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Basque National Orchestra

      Conductor: Robert Treviño

    20. Interlude: Lent II

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Basque National Orchestra

      Conductor: Robert Treviño

    21. Tableau 5: Laideronnette, Impératrice des Pagodes

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Basque National Orchestra

      Conductor: Robert Treviño

    22. Interlude: Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Basque National Orchestra

      Conductor: Robert Treviño

    23. Tableau 6: Apothéose (Le jardin féerique)

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Basque National Orchestra

      Conductor: Robert Treviño


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)