Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music

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Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano MusicOpis:Taking time off from her definitive series of J S Bach recordings, Angela Hewitt here brings us the complete solo piano music of Ravel, and anyone who wondered whether this seemingly dyed-in-the wool Bachian might stumble, should rest assured: this is an absolutely stunning double disc. As Hewitt makes clear in her characteristically illuminating sleeve notes, Stravinsky's jibe that Ravel was "only a Swiss clock-maker" was hopelessly wide of the mark. "One doesn't need to open one's chest to show that one has a heart," said Ravel, and in these often understated recordings one is made to feel his point powerfully. "Scarbo" is all the more dramatic through the suppressed excitement Hewitt's playing exudes; "Ondine" and "Le Gibet" are at once immaculately controlled and intensely atmospheric. In addition to those works most frequently played, we also get rarities such as "Sérénade grotesque", written when Ravel was 18, and not published until 1975. As Hewitt points out, Ravel's favourite composer was Mozart, and she plays him with a positively Mozartian subtlety of nuance. --Michael ChurchProduct DescriptionThis is a reminder that Angela Hewitt doesn't only playor recordthe music of Bach, as she has already shown us with her disc of Messiaen, issued a couple of years ago. Here, in this 2CD set, she gives us the complete solo piano music of Ravel. (And, unlike some of the others on the market, this really is complete, containing as it does the very early, 1893, 'Serenade grotesque', discovered comparatively recently.) Miss Hewitt's elegant and poised playing-style familiar from her Bach recordings serves her especially well in the piano music of this fastidious French master.

Autor:Maurice RavelNośnik:Audio CDPłyt:Język: English: Published; English: Original Language; EnglishData wydania: 2002-04-01Waga: 0.28 gramWysokość: 0.4 cmSzerokość: 4.9 cmDługość: 5.6 cmNew Store StockUWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.