556673bk Ravel AUS:556673bk Ravel AUS 6/29/08 12:46 PM Page 2 Piano Music The Best of... Ravel was himself a good pianist. His music for the piano includes Prokofiev 8.556681 The Best of compositions in his own nostalgic archaic style, such as the Pavane and J. S. Bach 8.556656 Puccini 8.556670 the Menuet antique, as well as the more complex textures of pieces such as Jeux d’eau (Fountains), Miroirs and Gaspard de la nuit, with its sinister Beethoven 8.556651 Rachmaninov 8.556682 RAVEL connotations. The Sonatina is in Ravel’s neo-classical style and Le Berlioz 8.556678 Ravel 8.556673 tombeau de Couperin is in the form of a Baroque dance suite. Bizet 8.556671 Rimsky-Korsakov 8.556674 ✓ Recommended Recordings Brahms 8.556659 Rossini 8.556683 DDD Boléro Piano Music Vol. 1 (Pavane; Jeux d’eau; Miroirs; Sonatine) Chopin 8.556654 Saint-Saëns 8.556675 Pavane pour Naxos 8.550683 Debussy 8.556663 Schubert 8.556666 une infante Piano Music Vol. 2 (Valses nobles et sentimentales; Gaspard de la nuit; défunte Le tombeau de Couperin; La valse) Dvorˇák 8.556661 Schumann 8.556662 Naxos 8.553008 Elgar 8.556672 Shostakovich 8.556684 Alborada del gracioso Fauré 8.556679 Sibelius 8.556677 Rapsodie Grieg 8.556658 Johann Strauss II 8.556664 espagnole Handel 8.556665 Stravinsky 8.556685 Tzigane Haydn 8.556668 Tchaikovsky 8.556652 Liszt 8.556667 Verdi 8.556669 Le Tombeau de Couperin Mendelssohn 8.556660 Vivaldi 8.556655 Mozart 8.556653 Wagner 8.556657 and others Paganini 8.556680 Weber 8.556676 5 8.556673 8.556673 556673bk Ravel AUS:556673bk Ravel AUS 6/29/08 12:46 PM Page 1 ✓ Maurice Ravel 1875 - 1937 Recommended Recordings Vocal Music Boléro; Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 1; Ma mère l’oye; Songs by Ravel include the remarkable Shéhérazade, settings of a text by French, of paternal Swiss and maternal Basque descent, Ravel combined Valses nobles et sentimentales Tristan Klingsor for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, and the Don Quichotte skill in orchestration with meticulous technical command of harmonic Naxos 8.550173 à Dulcinée (Don Quixote to Dulcinea) songs, originally written for a film resources, writing in an attractive musical idiom that was entirely his own, La Valse; Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2 of Don Quixote in which the famous Russian bass Chaliapin was to star. in spite of contemporary comparisons with Debussy, a composer his senior Naxos 8.550424 Songs with piano include settings of the Jules Renard Histoires naturelles, by some twenty years. with its instinctive sympathy with the birds and the cricket portrayed. Orchestral Music Chamber Music Stage Works In addition to the scores for ballet and arrangements of piano works for the same purpose, Ravel wrote an evocative Rapsodie espagnole (Spanish Ravel’s chamber music includes the evocative nostalgia of the Introduction and Operas. Ravel wrote two operas, the first, described as a comédie- Rhapsody). Other orchestrations of original piano compositions include a Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet, a violin sonata with a jazz-style musicale, L’heure espagnole (The Spanish Clock) and the second, with a version of the very well known Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for blues movement, a piano trio and a string quartet. Tzigane, written for the libretto by Colette, the imaginative L’enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and a Dead Infanta), the Menuet antique, Alborada del gracioso from Miroirs Hungarian violinist Jelly d’Arányi, is a remarkable excursion into extravagant gypsy the Enchantments), in which the naughty child is punished when furniture and pieces from Le tombeau de Couperin. Ravel wrote two piano style. and animals assume personalities of their own. concertos, the first, completed in 1930, for the left hand only, commissioned ✓ Recommended Recordings Ballets. Ravel wrote his ballet Daphnis et Chloé in response to a by the pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm in the war, and String Quartet; Introduction and Allegro commission from the Russian impresario Dyagilev. The work, described as the second, completed in 1931, for two hands. Naxos 8.550249 a symphonie choréographique is based on the Hellenistic pastoral novel of ✓ Recommended Recordings Violin Sonata Longus. Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose), originally for piano duet, was Naxos 8.550276 orchestrated and used for a ballet, as were the Valses nobles et Rapsodie espagnole; Pavane pour une infante défunte Naxos 8.550424 Tzigane (orch.Ravel) sentimentales and the choreographic poem La valse. Ravel’s last ballet Naxos 8.550494 score was the famous Boléro, a work he himself described as an Piano Concerto for the Left Hand; Piano Concerto in G major Piano Trio orchestrated crescendo. Naxos 8.550753 Naxos 8.550934 2 8.556673 3 8.556673 4 8.556673 556673bk Ravel AUS:556673bk Ravel AUS 6/29/08 12:46 PM Page 1 ✓ Maurice Ravel 1875 - 1937 Recommended Recordings Vocal Music Boléro; Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 1; Ma mère l’oye; Songs by Ravel include the remarkable Shéhérazade, settings of a text by French, of paternal Swiss and maternal Basque descent, Ravel combined Valses nobles et sentimentales Tristan Klingsor for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, and the Don Quichotte skill in orchestration with meticulous technical command of harmonic Naxos 8.550173 à Dulcinée (Don Quixote to Dulcinea) songs, originally written for a film resources, writing in an attractive musical idiom that was entirely his own, La Valse; Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2 of Don Quixote in which the famous Russian bass Chaliapin was to star. in spite of contemporary comparisons with Debussy, a composer his senior Naxos 8.550424 Songs with piano include settings of the Jules Renard Histoires naturelles, by some twenty years. with its instinctive sympathy with the birds and the cricket portrayed. Orchestral Music Chamber Music Stage Works In addition to the scores for ballet and arrangements of piano works for the same purpose, Ravel wrote an evocative Rapsodie espagnole (Spanish Ravel’s chamber music includes the evocative nostalgia of the Introduction and Operas. Ravel wrote two operas, the first, described as a comédie- Rhapsody). Other orchestrations of original piano compositions include a Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet, a violin sonata with a jazz-style musicale, L’heure espagnole (The Spanish Clock) and the second, with a version of the very well known Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for blues movement, a piano trio and a string quartet. Tzigane, written for the libretto by Colette, the imaginative L’enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and a Dead Infanta), the Menuet antique, Alborada del gracioso from Miroirs Hungarian violinist Jelly d’Arányi, is a remarkable excursion into extravagant gypsy the Enchantments), in which the naughty child is punished when furniture and pieces from Le tombeau de Couperin. Ravel wrote two piano style. and animals assume personalities of their own. concertos, the first, completed in 1930, for the left hand only, commissioned ✓ Recommended Recordings Ballets. Ravel wrote his ballet Daphnis et Chloé in response to a by the pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm in the war, and String Quartet; Introduction and Allegro commission from the Russian impresario Dyagilev. The work, described as the second, completed in 1931, for two hands. Naxos 8.550249 a symphonie choréographique is based on the Hellenistic pastoral novel of ✓ Recommended Recordings Violin Sonata Longus. Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose), originally for piano duet, was Naxos 8.550276 orchestrated and used for a ballet, as were the Valses nobles et Rapsodie espagnole; Pavane pour une infante défunte Naxos 8.550424 Tzigane (orch.Ravel) sentimentales and the choreographic poem La valse. Ravel’s last ballet Naxos 8.550494 score was the famous Boléro, a work he himself described as an Piano Concerto for the Left Hand; Piano Concerto in G major Piano Trio orchestrated crescendo. Naxos 8.550753 Naxos 8.550934 2 8.556673 3 8.556673 4 8.556673 556673bk Ravel AUS:556673bk Ravel AUS 6/29/08 12:46 PM Page 1 ✓ Maurice Ravel 1875 - 1937 Recommended Recordings Vocal Music Boléro; Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 1; Ma mère l’oye; Songs by Ravel include the remarkable Shéhérazade, settings of a text by French, of paternal Swiss and maternal Basque descent, Ravel combined Valses nobles et sentimentales Tristan Klingsor for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, and the Don Quichotte skill in orchestration with meticulous technical command of harmonic Naxos 8.550173 à Dulcinée (Don Quixote to Dulcinea) songs, originally written for a film resources, writing in an attractive musical idiom that was entirely his own, La Valse; Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2 of Don Quixote in which the famous Russian bass Chaliapin was to star. in spite of contemporary comparisons with Debussy, a composer his senior Naxos 8.550424 Songs with piano include settings of the Jules Renard Histoires naturelles, by some twenty years. with its instinctive sympathy with the birds and the cricket portrayed. Orchestral Music Chamber Music Stage Works In addition to the scores for ballet and arrangements of piano works for the same purpose, Ravel wrote an evocative Rapsodie espagnole (Spanish Ravel’s chamber music includes the evocative nostalgia of the Introduction and Operas. Ravel wrote two operas, the first, described as a comédie- Rhapsody). Other orchestrations of original piano compositions include a Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet, a violin sonata with a jazz-style musicale, L’heure espagnole (The Spanish Clock) and the second, with a version of the very well known Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for blues movement, a piano trio and a string quartet. Tzigane, written for the libretto by Colette, the imaginative L’enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and a Dead Infanta), the Menuet antique, Alborada del gracioso from Miroirs Hungarian violinist Jelly d’Arányi, is a remarkable excursion into extravagant gypsy the Enchantments), in which the naughty child is punished when furniture and pieces from Le tombeau de Couperin.