Ravel - Complete Music for Solo Piano
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4829041
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 19th July 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 sur le nom de Haydn
Miroirs
Pavane pour une infante defunte (piano)
Prelude
Serenade grotesque
Sonatine
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Artists
Gordon Fergus-Thompson (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 sur le nom de Haydn
Miroirs
Pavane pour une infante defunte (piano)
Prelude
Serenade grotesque
Sonatine
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Artists
Gordon Fergus-Thompson (piano)About
The piano was for Ravel the principal medium of musical thought, and his approach to the instrument was at once lavish and precise. Lisztian virtuosity is entwined with an antique spirit of French dance in both the darkly Impressionist Gaspard de la nuit and the much gentler strains of the Valses nobles et sentimentales. Likewise Jeux d’eau takes its inspiration from a Lisztian template while Le tombeau de Couperin pays deeply affectionate tribute both to friends killed in the First World War and to an imagined Eden of formal manners and gentility, presumed lost forever.
Although his repertoire ranges from Bach to Webern, Gordon Fergus-Thompson has won particular renown as a Franco-Russian specialist in command of the most technically challenging repertoire by the likes of Balakirev. Following the reissue of his complete Scriabin recordings, and his renowned Debussy, Eloquence brings back another pair of albums which find the pianist in his element: rhythmically free yet in complete control of Ravel’s fastidiously exacting scores; timbrally refined yet abandoned to the Viennese excess of La valse as well as the blurred, dream-like moods of the Miroirs.
‘Fergus-Thompson sounds sparkier and freer, with a gentler flow of tone and more space in the recording ... There’s no problem, at least, about brilliance of effect. The finale of the Sonatine finds more vigour and purpose, and some of the minor pieces have an attractive light touch.’ - BBC Music Magazine
‘Fergus-Thompson [...] confirms his calibre and status as a distinguished, most individual Francophile ... Even the most experienced Ravelians will find themselves returning to these finely recorded accounts for a special and magical enlightenment.’ - Gramophone, October 1993
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