MAURICE RAVEL (1875–1937)

 

The complete solo piano music

 

CD1

Gaspard de la nuit

1 Ondine [6'22]

2 Le gibet [7'25]

3 Scarbo [9'27]

Sonatine

4 Modéré [4'10]

5 Mouvement de menuet [3'07]

6 Animé [3'41]

Miroirs

7 Noctuelles [4'49]

8 Oiseaux tristes [4'33]

9 Une barque sur l’océan [7'39]

10 Alborada del gracioso [6'52]

11 La vallée des cloches [6'00]

12 La valse [11'40]

 

CD2

Le tombeau de Couperin

1 Prélude [2'54]

2 Fugue [3'25]

3 Forlane [5'51]

4 Rigaudon [3'01]

5 Menuet [4'39]

6 Toccata [3'49]

7 Menuet in C sharp minor [0'45]

8 Menuet antique [6'18]

9 Sérénade grotesque [3'27]

10 Jeux d’eau [5'41]

11 Prélude [1'13]

12 Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn [1'33]

13 À la manière de Borodine [1'18]

14 À la manière de Chabrier [1'36]

15 Pavane pour une infante défunte [6'21]

Valses nobles et sentimentales

16 Modéré – Très franc [1'14]

17 Assez lent [2'11]

18 Modéré [1'22]

19 Assez animé [1'01]

20 Presque lent [1'17]

21 Vif [0'37]

22 Moins vif [2'29]

23 Epilogue Lent [4'49]

 

Steven Osborne, piano

 

New releases of Steven Osborne’s best-selling discs have become some of the most eagerly-awaited events in the pianophile diary. This most delicate and subtle of musicians also displays a pyrotechnical deployment of digital acrobatics, mesmerising colour control and breathtaking articulation. All these qualities are visible in this two-disc set of some of the most important piano music of the early twentieth century. Ravel’s works have been central, too, to Steven Osborne’s performing repertoire throughout his career, making this set a perfect marriage of composer and performer.

 

Hyperion 2cds CDA67731-2