Ravel - Complete Works for Piano Duet
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 94176
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 7th February 2011
Contents
Works
Bolero (version for piano four hands)Entre cloches (arr. for two pianos)
Fanfare
Frontispiece for poeme du Vardar (for two pianos, five hands)
Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet (arr. for 2 pianos)
La Valse (two pianos)
Ma Mere l'Oye (Mother Goose) (arr. for four hands)
Rapsodie espagnole (arr. for piano duet)
Sheherezade: Overture (arr. for two pianos)
Artists
Ingryd Thorson (piano)Julian Thurber (piano)
David Gardiner (piano)
Works
Bolero (version for piano four hands)Entre cloches (arr. for two pianos)
Fanfare
Frontispiece for poeme du Vardar (for two pianos, five hands)
Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet (arr. for 2 pianos)
La Valse (two pianos)
Ma Mere l'Oye (Mother Goose) (arr. for four hands)
Rapsodie espagnole (arr. for piano duet)
Sheherezade: Overture (arr. for two pianos)
Artists
Ingryd Thorson (piano)Julian Thurber (piano)
David Gardiner (piano)
About
Apart from the well known works, this 2CD set contains some little known pieces – Entre cloches of 1897 was only published in 1975, and was originally appended to the Haberna, now better known as the 3rd movement of Rapsodie espagnole.
Frontispice for 2 pianos, 5 hands was written in 1918. Ravel’s mother had died in 1917, and he was deeply attached to her. Her loss resulted in 3 years of musical silence, with the exception of Frontispice. It is a short and very experimental work published with a collection of philospohical war poetry by the Italian Ricciotto Canudo. It is a curiously evocative work, almost surreal.
‘These performances from Denmark are all affectionate and notably intelligent and they are powerfully yet pleasingly recorded. The culmination of this set is a fine account of that terrifying masterpiece La valse. Recommended.’ - Gramophone, October 1988
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