Ravel - Arrangements for Wind Quintet | Brilliant Classics 94772

Ravel - Arrangements for Wind Quintet

Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 94772

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 25th November 2013

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Maurice Ravel is famed as a master of orchestral colour, in the context not only of his own work but that of others, most notably Mussorgsky's awkward but brilliant piano original of 'Pictures at an Exhibition', and yet he wrote almost no music for the orchestra in origin, but instead arranged pieces conceived at and for the piano; so why not follow his lead and transcribe his music for another palette of instrumental colours?

This was the rationale of the young and already‐acclaimed members of the Orlando Quintet, who commissioned Mark Popkin and Wayne Peterson to fit three works of diverse origin within Ravel's output to the compact ensemble of the wind quintet, and the results are, as we can hear on this new recording, consistently engaging, imparting a pungency that never breaks the line or occludes Ravel's melodic genius for a sad song, such as one finds in the second movement of the string quartet, in part at least because the wind ensemble preserves that vocal quality which can be heard even in Ravel's 'abstract' instrumental music.

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