Ravel – The Complete Solo Piano Music
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
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