Composer: Maurice Ravel
Performer: Clément Lefebvre
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Evidence Classics
Catalogue: EVCD083
Release: 2021
Size: 528 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Sonatine
01. I. Modéré
02. II. Mouvement de menuet
03. III. Animé
04. Menuet sur le nom de Haydn
05. Valses nobles et sentimentales
06. Menuet antique
07. Pavane pour une infante défunte
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
08. I. Prélude
09. II. Fugue
10. III. Forlane
11. IV. Rigaudon
12. V. Menuet
13. VI. Toccata
Maurice Ravel, a versatile and eclectic composer, took his inspiration from many sources, but especially and most constantly throughout his life, from music of the Eighteenth Century: that of French Baroque.
His Menuet antique, Pavane pour une infante défunte, Valses nobles et sentimentales (title chosen in homage to Franz Schubert) and Tombeau de Couperin are fine illustrations of that interest and inspiration, and they are the works presented on this new recording by Clément Lefebvre. After a first CD devoted to Rameau and Couperin, that makes perfect sense.