Composer: Maurice Ravel
Performer: Steven Osborne
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDA67731-2
Release: 2011
Size: 368 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55
01. I. Ondine
02. II. Le gibet
03. III. Scarbo
Sonatine, M. 40
04. I. Modéré
05. II. Mouvement de menuet
06. III. Animé
Miroirs, M. 43
07. I. Noctuelles
08. II. Oiseaux tristes
09. III. Une barque sur l’océan
10. IV. Alborada del gracioso
11. V. La vallée des cloches
12. La valse, M. 72b (Version for Solo Piano)
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 in C-Sharp Minor, M. 42
08. Menuet antique, M. 7
09. Sérénade grotesque, M. 5
10. Jeux d’eau, M. 30
11. Prélude in A Minor, M. 65
12. Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn, M. 58
13. À la manière de Borodine, M. 63/1
14. À la manière de Chabrier, M. 63/2
15. Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19
Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61
16. I. Modéré, très franc
17. II. Assez lent, avec une expression intense
18. III. Modéré
19. IV. Assez animé
20. V. Presque lent, dans un sentiment intime
21. VI. Vif
22. VII. Moins vif
23. VIII. Epilogue. Lent
New releases of Steven Osborne’s best-selling discs have become some of the most eagerly-awaited events in the pianophile diary. This most delicate and subtle of musicians also displays a pyrotechnical deployment of digital acrobatics, mesmerising colour control and breathtaking articulation. All these qualities are visible in this two-disc set of some of the most important piano music of the early twentieth century. Ravel’s works have been central, too, to Steven Osborne’s performing repertoire throughout his career, making this set a perfect marriage of composer and performer.