New releases of Steven Osborne’s best-selling discs have become some of the most eagerly-awaited events in the pianophile diary. This most delicate and subtle of musicians also displays a pyrotechnical deployment of digital acrobatics, mesmerising colour control and breathtaking articulation. All these qualities are visible in this two-disc set of some of the most important piano music of the early twentieth century.

Ravel’s works have been central, too, to Steven Osborne’s performing repertoire throughout his career, making this set a perfect marriage of composer and performer.

Track Listing:
CD 1
Gaspard de la nuit
1. Ondine
2. Le gibet
3. Scarbo

Sonatine
4. Modéré
5. Mouvement de menuet
6. Animé

Miroirs
7. Noctuelles
8. Oiseaux tristes
9. Une barque sur l’océan
10. Alborada del gracioso
11. La vallée des cloches

12. La valse

CD 2
Le tombeau de Couperin
1. Prélude
2. Fugue
3. Forlane
4. Rigaudon
5. Menuet
6. Toccata

7. Menuet in C sharp minor
8. Menuet antique
9. Sérénade grotesque
10. Jeux d’eau
11. Prélude
12. Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn
13. À la manière de Borodine
14. À la manière de Chabrier
15. Pavane pour une infante défunte

Valses nobles et sentimentales
16. Modéré – Très franc
17. Assez lent
18. Modéré
19. Assez animé
20. Presque lent
21. Vif
22. Moins vif
23. Epilogue Lent