Composer: Maurice Ravel
Performer: Jennifer Gilbert
Orchestra: Orchestre National de Lyon
Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8572887
Release: 2012
Size: 1.1 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Alborada del gracioso (orchestral version)
02. Pavane pour une infante défunte
Rapsodie Espagnole
03. I. Prelude a la nuit
04. II. Malaguena
05. III. Habanera
06. IV. Feria
07. Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera
08. Shéhérazade – Ouverture de féerie
09. Menuet antique
10. Boléro
Ravel orchestrated his piano pieces Alborada del gracioso and Pavane pour une infante défunte to great effect; the former gains in suggestive colour, and the latter evokes nostalgic pathos. Another orchestrated work is the Menuet antique, which is redolent of old French dance forms. Rapsodie espagnole, Ravel’s first major orchestral work, shimmers with expectancy and bursts into Spanish dance rhythms, themes he pursued in Pièce en forme de habanera. His earliest orchestral work, the ‘fairy overture’ Shéhérazade, is all that remains of a planned opera based on The Thousand and One Nights. The famous Boléro, an ‘orchestrated crescendo’ of undimmed power, has proved one of the most popular works in all classical music.