Composer: Maurice Ravel
Performer: Walter Gieseking
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Warner
Catalogue: 9029577506
Release: 2017
Size: 238 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Menuet antique
02. Pavane pour une infante défunte
03. Jeux d’eau
Sonatine
04. I. Modéré
05. II. Mouvement de menuet
06. III. Animé
Miroirs, 5 pieces for piano
07. I. Noctuelles
08. II. Oiseaux triste
09. III. Une barque sur l’océan
10. IV. Alborada del gracioso
11. V. La vallée des cloches
Gaspard de la Nuit
12. I. Ondine
13. II. Le Gibet
14. III. Scarbo
15. Menuet sur le nom de Haydn
Valses nobles et sentimentales
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)
24. Prelude in A Minor, M. 65
25. A la manière de Borodine
26. A la manière de Chabrier
Le Tombeau de Couperin
27. I. Prélude
28. II. Fugue
29. III. Forlane
30. IV. Rigaudon
31. V. Menuet
32. VI. Toccata
Walter Gieseking, though German, was born in the French city of Lyon and is admired above all as a brilliant and entrancingly perceptive interpreter of Debussy and Ravel. “He created a sound world in this repertoire that had no precedent, except perhaps in the composers’ imaginations,” wrote Gramophone, while the New York Times has said that: “His playing, though focused and rhythmically exact, proves that deep concentration does not have to be intense … There is never a sense of strain or tension; everything is natural and full of character.”