Composer: Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier, Claude Achille Debussy, Modest Mussorgsky, Robert Schumann
Orchestra: Orchestre National de Lyon
Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8573124
Release: 2016
Size: 933 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Chabrier: Pièces pittoresques
01. No. 9. Menuet pompeux (arr. M. Ravel for orchestra)
Debussy: Pour le piano
02. II. Sarabande (arr. M. Ravel for orchestra)
03. Debussy: Danse – Tarantelle styrienne (arr. M. Ravel for orchestra)
Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9 (Orch. M. Ravel)
04. No. 1. Preambule
05. No. 16. Valse allemande
06. No. 17. Intermezzo: Paganini
07. No. 21. Marche des Davidsbundler contre les Philistins
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
08. Promenade
09. I. The Gnome
10. Promenade
11. II. The Old Castle
12. Promenade
13. III. Tuileries
14. IV. Bydlo
15. Promenade
16. V. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
17. VI. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
18. Promenade (arr. L. Slatkin for orchestra)
19. VII. The Market Place at Limoges
20. VIII. Catacombae: Sepulcrum romanum
21. Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
22. IX. The Hut on Fowl’s Legs (Baba-Yaga) – X. The Great Gate of Kiev
Maurice Ravel’s incomparable skill in orchestration and command of orchestral colour is evident both in his own works and in his orchestrations of music by other composers. His versions of both Chabrier’s vibrant Menuet pompeux and the colourful commedia dell’arte figures of Schumann’s Carnaval were commissions for ballet, while new life was given to his late friend Debussy’s Sarabande et Danse at the request of publisher Jean Jobert. Ravel’s iconic orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition makes telling use of a large orchestra, vividly depicting scenes that range from the playful to the macabre.