Maurice Ravel: Piano Music

Catalogue No: TOCC0508
EAN/UPC: 5060113445087
Release Date: 2018-08-01
Composer: Maurice Ravel
Artists: Indrė Petrauskaitė

Almost every pianist, it seems, wants to record Ravel, but virtually all of them have overlooked a treasure trove of his solo-piano music: the composer’s short score for Daphnis et Chloé. Some parts of it are unplayable by a single pair of hands, but with judicious arrangement this working draft can be mined for diamonds. Only a handful of musicians have made their own suites for solo piano; here the Lithuanian pianist Indrė Petrauskaitė, carefully observing Ravel’s original textures, has produced something new: a 40-minute concert suite of unsuspected Ravel for solo piano that also respects the dramatic outline of the original ballet. The other, more familiar works here extend the ideas of antiquity and transcription.

Indrė Petrauskaitė, piano

Listen To This Recording:

    Daphnis et Chloé (1909–12)
    Suite for Piano, arr. Indrė Petrauskaitė (2005–15)*

  1. I Danse religieuse
  2. II Danse générale
  3. III Danse grotesque de Dorcon
  4. IV Danse gracieuse et légère de Daphnis
  5. V Lyceion entre; Lyceion danse
  6. VI Modéré (Nocturne)
  7. VII Même mouvement (Interlude); Danse guerrière
  8. VIII Danse suppliante de Chloé
  9. IX Scène de Daphnis et Chloé
  10. Menuet antique (1895)

  11. Menuet antique
  12. Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn (1909)

  13. Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn
  14. Miroirs: No. 3, Une barque sur l’océan (1904–5)

  15. Miroirs: No. 3, Une barque sur l’ocean
  16. À la manière de … Alexander Borodine (1913)

  17. À la manière de … Alexander Borodine
  18. À la manière de … Emmanuel Chabrier: Paraphrase sur un air de Gounod (1913)

  19. À la manière de … Emmanuel Chabrier: Paraphrase sur un air de Gounod
  20. La valse (1919–20)

  21. La valse

*FIRST RECORDING

1 review for Maurice Ravel: Piano Music

  1. :

    ‘These are strong and well played performances, especially in the Daphnis et Chloé Suite, but also in the other original piano works. The recorded sound is very good and as already stated, the booklet essay is excellent.’

    —Stuart Sillitoe, MusicWeb International

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