Composer: Maurice Ravel
Performer: Alice Ader
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Fuga Libera
Catalogue: FUG592
Release: 2012
Size: 462 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Gaspard de la nuit, trois poèmes pour le piano d’après Aloysius Bertrand, M. 55
01. I. Ondine
02. II. Le gibet
03. III. Scarbo
04. Sérénade grotesque
05. Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19
06. Jeux d’eau, M. 30
07. Prélude, M. 65
Miroirs, M. 43
08. I. Noctuelles
09. II. Oiseaux tristes
10. III. Une barque sur l’océan
11. IV. Alborada del gracioso
12. V. La vallée des cloches
CD 02
Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68
01. I. Prélude
02. II. Fugue
03. III. Forlane
04. IV. Rigaudon
05. V. Menuet
06. VI. Toccata
07. Menuet sur le nom de Haydn, M. 58
Sonatine, M. 40
08. I. Modéré
09. II. Mouvement de menuet
10. III. Animé
11. À la manière d’Emmanuel Chabrier, M. 63/2
12. À la manière de Borodine, M. 63/1
Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61
13. I. Modéré
14. II. Assez lent
15. III. Modéré
16. IV. Assez animé
17. V. Presque lent
18. VI. Assez vif
19. VII. Moins vif
20. VIII. Épilogue (Lent)
21. Menuet antique
Alice Ader’s first Debussy disc (Erato) won all the awards in the specialist press on its release twenty years ago and is still regarded as an unequalled benchmark. Now this unconventional pianist at last unveils her recording of the complete Ravel piano works.
And what better moment could there be than Debussy Year to present these two hours or so of music in dialogue, en Miroirs as it were, with the oeuvre of ‘Claude de France’? Ravel, the hot-blooded Swiss watchmaker, the discreet Lisztian, the mediocre pianist who made such extreme demands on his colleagues, the man of so many sublime paradoxes, deserves only the finest interpreters: those who take the time to explore his deepest recesses. Alice Ader, light-years away from the flashy gestures often encountered in this music, takes us to the very heart of one of the most secretive composers of his time.