Composer: Maurice Ravel
Performer: André Dussollier, Isabelle Druet
Orchestra: Orchestre National de Lyon
Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8573448
Release: 2017
Size: 1.19 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Antar (After N. Rimsky-Korsakov)
01. No. 1. Rimsky-Korsakov: Antar: I. Largo – Le désert n’est pas vide… (narration)
02. No. 1bis. Ravel: Allegro
03. En ce temps-là… (narration) – No. 2. Ravel: Cadenza ad libitum
04. Sa mère, Zébiba… (narration) – No. 3. Ravel: Allegretto
05. Sa renommée grandissait avec lui… (narration) – No. 5. Ravel: Allargando
06. No. 6. Rimsky-Korsakov: Antar: IV. Andante amoroso (from letter C) – Un jour, il fut convoqué par son père… (narration)
07. No. 7. Ravel: Allegretto
08. Cette bataille… (narration) – No. 8. Ravel: Andante
09. No. 9. Ravel: Allegro – Ses poèmes l’ont rendu célèbre… (narration)
10. No. 10. Ravel: Allegro
11. No. 11. Rimsky-Korsakov: Antar: III. Allegro risoluto alla marcia
12. C’était une journée en apparence paisible… (narration) – No. 11bis. Ravel: Allegro, rythmé
13. Antar n’écoutait plus… (narration) – No. 12. Ravel: Allegro moderato
14. No. 13. Rimsky-Korsakov: Mlada, Act III: Scene at Mount Triglav – Puis il y eut encore une bataille… (narration)
15. En atteignant la plaine… (narration) – No. 14. Rimsky-Korsakov: Antar: II. Allegro
16. C’était le crépuscule… (narration) – No. 16. Ravel: Andante
Shéhérazade
17. No. 1. Asie
18. No. 2. La Flûte enchantée
19. No. 3. L’Indifférent
The impact of Russian and Oriental culture on Ravel’s formative years retained a hold on him throughout his life. His colourfully re-orchestrated selections from Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphonic suite ‘Antar’ and opera Mlada, with interpolations of his own music, as the incidental score for a theatre production are heard here in their première recording, revived and reconstructed alongside a new text that symbolizes the romance and chivalric spirit of Antar the warrior-poet and his beloved Abla. Ravel’s fascination with the exotic is brought together with Debussy’s influence in the ravishing and enduringly popular song cycle Shéhérazade.