RAVEL 'RAVEL: ORCH WORD, CONC. &SONGS' 5CD

Tracks

CD – 1 – 1  Bolero  15:26

2  La Valse  11:43

3  Rapsodie Espagnole  15:48

4  Valses Nobles et Sentimentales  16:20

5  Menuet Antique  06:28

CD 2 – 1  Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte  07:00

2  Le Tombeau de Coperin  16:33

3  Ma Mére l’Oye  28:17

4  Alborada del Gracioso  07:34

5  Une Barque Sur L’Ocean  07:38

CD 3 – 1  Daphnis et Chloé  55:32

CD 4 – 1  Concerto Pour la Main Gauche  18:25

2  Concerto En Sol  23:32

3  Tzigane  09:53

CD 5 – 1  Schéhérazade Oberture de Féerie  13:46

2  Schéhérazade  14:47

3  3 Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé  10:47

4  Mejerke  03:25

5  2 Melodies Hébraïques  06:40

6  Ronsard à Son Áme  02:40

7  Don Quichotte à Dulcinée

Artist

Born: March 7, 1875 (Ciboure, France).
Died: December 28, 1937 (Paris, France).

Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor.

He is often associated with impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In Ravel’s piano compositions you can find harpsichord style ideas, references to the Baroque, impressionist procedures and reminiscences of romantic pianism. His music is characterized by a refined timbre and harmonic research; even if its layered and dissonant harmonic structures still remain in the tonal sphere, the traditional harmonic relationships are brought to an extreme tension (particularly in the last works). His orchestral compositions are detached from the Germanic symphonic tradition, in these works the rhythmic and timbral elements are highlighted as well as themes inspired by Spanish folklore can be found.
Ravel’s entire production, from the youthful and brilliant “Quartet for strings” (1902-1903) to the “Piano Concerto for the left hand” of 1931, is a succession of precious works that are to be considered among the masterpieces of the music of twentieth century

In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France’s greatest living composer.