Ravel - Complete Works for Piano Solo
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Label: Simax
Cat No: PSC1366
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 25th January 2019
Contents
Works
A la maniere de BorodineA la maniere de Chabrier
Gaspard de la nuit
Jeux d'eau
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Menuet antique
Menuet in C sharp minor
Menuet sur le nom de Haydn
Miroirs
Pavane pour une infante defunte
Prelude
Serenade grotesque
Sonatine
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Artists
Hakon Austbo (piano)Works
A la maniere de BorodineA la maniere de Chabrier
Gaspard de la nuit
Jeux d'eau
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Menuet antique
Menuet in C sharp minor
Menuet sur le nom de Haydn
Miroirs
Pavane pour une infante defunte
Prelude
Serenade grotesque
Sonatine
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Artists
Hakon Austbo (piano)About
“The more one penetrates into the complex and mysterious universe of Ravel as revealed to us through his music, the more one is left with riddles never to be solved. I must confess, having played his music all my life, that there are aspects about him still puzzling me,” says Austbø - who also contributes with an enlightening personal note for this release.
In 1906 Ravel wrote to the critic Pierre Lalo pointing out that various features of his work could claim priority over Debussy in the ‘special manner of writing for the piano’. Jeux d’eau, he insisted, ‘stands at the beginning of all the pianistic innovations that have been noted in my work. Inspired by the sound of water and the musical sounds emanating from fountains, waterfalls and brooks...’ Austbø himself states: “Ravel’s piano writing is as subtle and colourful as his orchestra writing. He used to say that the pedal was the “orchestrator” of the piano; indeed, his use of resonance evoking bells or water is unthinkable without ample use of pedal.” For this recording Håkon Austbø performs on a Steinway Mod. D-274 from 1893.
Ravel’s music is sometimes perceived as cool and perfect. Austbø reads it differently: “Ravel probably did conceal some of his darkest sides behind a brilliant technical mastery. ‘My goal is technical perfection’, he stated, well aware that this would never be achieved. Still, many of his pieces put the dark corners of his world on display, as in the haunting Scarbo, or behind a mask as the tragic gracioso in Alborada. It is one of the few pieces where Ravel unveils himself to us, and the cataclysmic ending is not a nice sight: the buffoon’s world falls to pieces. In a way, we are all this buffoon: who hasn’t experienced this existential fear?”
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