The Best of Ravel

The Best of Maurice Ravel
Tracklist:

0:00:00 Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83: II. Adagio assai
Hüseyin Sermet, piano
Orchestre National de Lyon, Emanuel Krivine

0:08:57 Prélude, M. 65
0:10:07 Jeux d'eau, M. 30
0:16:52 Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn, M. 58
Hüseyin Sermet

0:18:52 Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19 (Piano Version)
0:25:21 Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: No. 1, Ondine
0:32:05 Miroirs, M. 43: I. Noctuelles
0:36:50 Miroirs, M. 43: II. Oiseaux tristes
0:41:08 Miroirs, M. 43: III. Une barque sur l'océan
0:48:14 Miroirs, M. 43: IV. Alborada del gracioso
0:54:22 Miroirs, M. 43: V. La vallée des cloches
Anna Vinnitskaya

1:00:03 Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19 (Orchestral Version)
Thomas Zehetmair, Orchestre de chambre de Paris

1:06:05 Ma mère l'Oye, M. 60: I. Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant
1:07:47 Ma mère l'Oye, M. 60: II. Petit Poucet
1:11:16 Ma mère l'Oye, M. 60: III. Laideronnette, Impératrice des pagodes
1:15:04 Ma mère l'Oye, M. 60: IV. Les entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête
1:19:36 Ma mère l'Oye, M. 60: V. Le jardin féerique
1:24:00 Rapsodie espagnole, M. 54: I. Prélude à la nuit
1:27:25 Rapsodie espagnole, M. 54: II. Malagueña
1:29:31 Rapsodie espagnole, M. 54: III. Habanera
1:32:07 Rapsodie espagnole, M. 54: IV. Feria
Ernest Bour, Sinfonieorchester des Südwestfunks

1:38:17 Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: I. Prélude (Orchestral Version)
1:41:16 Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: II. Forlane (Orchestral Version)
1:46:48 Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: III. Menuet (Orchestral Version)
1:51:41 Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: IV. Rigaudon (Orchestral Version)
Thomas Zehetmair, Orchestre de chambre de Paris

1:54:55 Boléro, M. 81
Philippe Jordan, Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris

2:10:16 Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61
Ernest Bour, Sinfonieorchester des Südwestfunks

Artwork: The Artist’s Garden at Vétheuil, Claude Monet (1881)

Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer.
Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended France's premier music college, the Paris Conservatoire; he was not well regarded by its conservative establishment, whose biased treatment of him caused a scandal. After leaving the conservatoire, Ravel found his own way as a composer, developing a style of great clarity and incorporating elements of modernism, baroque, neoclassicism and, in his later works, jazz. He liked to experiment with musical form, as in his best-known work, Boléro (1928), in which repetition takes the place of development.
A slow and painstaking worker, Ravel composed fewer pieces than many of his contemporaries. Among his works to enter the repertoire are pieces for piano, chamber music, two piano concertos, ballet music, two operas and eight song cycles; he wrote no symphonies or church music. Many of his works exist in two versions: first, a piano score and later an orchestration. Some of his piano music, such as Gaspard de la nuit (1908), is exceptionally difficult to play.
Ravel was among the first composers to recognise the potential of recording to bring their music to a wider public. From the 1920s, despite limited technique as a pianist or conductor, he took part in recordings of several of his works; others were made under his supervision.
(Source: Wikipedia)

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