RAVEL MAURICE

(2CD) COMPLETE MELODIES
French composer Maurice Ravel may be well known for his instrumental music, in particular the orchestral work Bolero, but it is his vocal compositions that fully encapsulate the shimmering colours of early-20th century music. Spanning an important period of Ravel's career, from 1893 up to 1932, this release is an integral recording of Ravel's songs, with both piano accompaniment and Ravel's original scoring for ensemble. Many of the works reveal Ravel's affinity with other cultures and his penchant for the exotic; from the Chansons madecas...
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(CD) DUO BILITIS: L'HEURE ESPAGNOLE
This release contains an adventurous programme of Spanish or Spain-inspired works, arranged for the enchanting combination of two harps, and (in some works) voice. The combination of 2 harps works particularly well in this mainly impressionistic music, providing a fascinating colour palette and deep sonority. One of the harpists, Ekatarina Leventhal, possesses an exceptionally beautiful mezzo soprano voice, and sings the solos in De Falla with zest and passion. OTHER INFORMATION: - Duo Bilitis won the International Chamber Music Competitio...
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(CD) RAVEL-CHAUSSON: PIANO TRIOS
Two major works from the chamber music repertory. Rarely recorded, the Chausson Trio is a marvel of finesse, variety and invention, equal in beauty to Ravel's....
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(CD) THE 1989 HERODES ATTICUS ODEON RECITAL, ATHENS, GREECE
The Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Ricercar A 3 - Johann Sebastian Bach French Suite No. 4 In E Flat Major - Johann Sebastian Bach Symphonic Etudes (1852 Version) - Robert Schumann Miroirs - Maurice Ravel - No. 2 Oiseaux Tristes - No. 3 Une Barque Sur L'Ocean Prelude And Nocturne For The Left Hand Op. 9 - Alexander Scriabine Poeme Tragique, Op. 34 - Alexander Scriabine Petite Suite: I. In The Monastery - Alexander Borodin Pictures At An Exhibition: V. Ballet Of The Chickens In Their Shells - Modest Mussorgsky 10 Pieces, Op. 12 - No. 7. Prelud...
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ΤΟ ΠΑΙΔΙ ΚΑΙ ΤΑ ΜΑΓΙΑ
Τ' όνειρο... μια λέξη παιδική, μια λέξη μαγική... για παιδιά που καταστρέφουν τα παιχνίδια τους... για μάγια που κάνουν τα παιχνίδια να επαναστατήσουν, να απολυτρώσουν... για το παιδί και τα μάγια που ο καθένας κουβαλά αν έχει οδηγό το όνειρο μονάχα... Αυτό είχε ως οδηγό και ο Maurice Ravel όταν συνέθετε τη λυρική του φαντασία "Το Παιδί και τα Μάγια". Έργο που του έδωσε την ευκαιρία να ασχοληθεί με εφευρετικότητα και χιούμορ με τα ζώα και τα άψυχα αντικείμενα που ζωντανεύουν σε αυτό το μαγικό παραμύθι, όπου πρωταγωνιστεί ένα άτακτο ...
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(CD) WORKS FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO / SONATES POUR VIOLON ET PIANO
Sonorous games and wagers. In amusing himself by confronting two instruments he judged incompatible, Ravel remains faithful to his legendary penchant for anything resembling a gamble - whether of sonorities or of technique. Both serious and playful works, side by side, without any apparent contradiction - an ambiguity quite typical of the composer of L'Enfant et les Sortileges!...
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(CD) PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION - DAPHNIS ET CHLOE: SUITE NO. 2, LA VALSE
DDD / 32 Bit Digital sound / High quality audiofile edition Digitally recorded in July 1994 at C.T.S. Studios, London...
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(CD) ARRANGEMENTS FOR WIND QUINTET
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 Popk...
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(CD) RUSSIAN AND FRENCH VIOLIN SONATAS
Sergei PROKOFIEV (1891 - 1953) Sonata No.l for Violin and Piano in F minor, op.80 (1946) Alfred SCHNITTKE (1934 - 1998) Sonata No.l for Violin and Piano (1963) Maurice RAVEL (1875 - 1937) Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major (1923 - 27) Oliver MESSIAEN (1908 - 92) Theme and Variations (1932) Sergej Azizjan: violin - Elena Semishina: piano...
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(CD) BOLERO - LA VALSE - CONCERTOS POUR PIANO
"Do you not find that there is something insistent in this theme? I shall try to repeat it incessantly, without any development, making the orchestra gradually grow as loud as I can. It might happen to succeed like 'La Madelon'." (Maurice Ravel)...
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(2CD) COMPLETE PIANO MUSIC
[CD1] 1. Serenade grotesque 2. Menuet antique 3. Pavane pour une infante defunte 4. Jeux d'eau 5. Sonatine: I. Modere 6. Sonatine: II. Mouvement de menuet 7. Sonatine: III. Anime 8. Menuet en ut diese mineur 9. Miroirs: Noctuelles 10. Miroirs: Oiseaux tristes 11. Miroirs: Une barque sur l'ocean 12. Miroirs: Alborada del gracioso 13. Miroirs: La vallee des cloches [CD2] 1. Gaspard de la nuit: I. Ondine 2. Gaspard de la nuit: II. Le Gibet 3. Gaspard de la nuit: III. Scarbo 4. Menuet sur le nom de Haydn 5. Valses nobles et s...
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