Ravel – The Complete Solo Piano Music

 
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Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Hyperion Records CDA66731/2

GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINEE

The perfectly-voiced piano ,the venue/acoustic, producer and engineer, and an artist who was born to play Ravel combine to make the best Ravel cycle on disc.
— Classic FM Magazine

[Osborne's] Ravel strikes me as finer yet than his Debussy. He has devised the most compelling sequence of works, making two quite distinct and complementary programmes of this highly diversified but relatively small oeuvre … He brings transcendental Lisztian virtuosity and an astonishing palette of sonorities to the fiendish Gaspard pieces.
— Sunday Times

An unqualified delight
— The Guardian

Osborne gauges the iridescent colours of 'Miroirs' faultlessly and turn 'Gaspard de la Nuit' into a quasi-orchestral fantasy. This is the finest Ravel anthology of the CD era.
— Financial Times

Steven Osborne, ever a poised, technically impeccable virtuoso, combines clarity with heart. All a shimmering pleasure.
— The Observer

Very highly recommended: even among the greatest of competition, Osborne may have set a new benchmark.
— International Record Review


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Tracklisting

Gaspard de la nuit
Ondine
Le gibet
Scarbo

Sonatine

Modéré
Mouvement de menuet
Animé

Miroirs
Noctuelles
Oiseaux tristes
Une barque sur l'océan
Alborada del gracioso
La vallée des cloches

La Valse

Le tombeau de Couperin
Prélude
Fugue
Forlane
Rigaudon
Menuet
Toccata

Menuet in C sharp minor

Menuet antique

Sérénade Grotesque

Jeux d'eau

Prélude

Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn

À la manière de Borodine

À la manière de Chabrier

Pavane pour une infante défunte

Valses nobles et sentimentales
Modéré - Très franc
Assez lent
Modéré
Assez animé
Presque lent
VIf
Moins vif
Epilogue: Lent

 
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