# Maurice Ravel: Orchestral Versions of · Gaspard de la nuit (with recited text) · Le Tombeau de Couperin · Menuet antique · Pavane pour une infante défunte · Alborada del gracioso

> Maurice Ravel: Orchestral Versions of · Gaspard de la nuit (with recited text) · Le Tombeau de Couperin ·…. Ondine ODE 1051-2, CD, released January 2005.

Source: https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1051-2

- **Composer:** Maurice Ravel
- **Work(s):** Orchestral Versions of · Gaspard de la nuit (with recited text) · Le Tombeau de Couperin · Menuet antique · Pavane pour une infante défunte · Alborada del gracioso
- **Performers:** Carole Bouquet, narrator; Tzimon Barto, piano; Orchestre de Paris; Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
- **Label:** Ondine
- **Catalogue no.:** ODE 1051-2
- **Format:** CD
- **Release date:** 1 January 2005
- **EAN / UPC:** 0761195105122
- **Tracks:** 14, total 72:55
- **Genres:** Orchestral, Instrumental
- **Awards:** Pizzicato 'Supersonic Award'

## Track listing

**Maurice Ravel**

- *Gaspard de la nuit (Orchestral version by Marius Constant)*
1. Ondine (text) (1:29)
2. I. Ondine (orchestral version) (7:10)
3. Le Gibet (text) (0:59)
4. II.  Le Gibet (orchestral version) (5:17)
5. Scarbo (text) (1:07)
6. III. Scarbo (orchestral version) (9:35)
- *Le Tombeau de Couperin*
7. I. Prélude (3:20)
8. II. Forlane (5:50)
9. III. Menuet (5:07)
10. IV. Rigaudon (3:10)
11. Menuet antique (6:50)
12. Pavane pour une infante défunte (7:10)
13. Alborada del gracioso (8:09)
- *Gaspard de la nuit*
14. I. Ondine (piano version) (7:42)

## About this recording

This release marks the 20th anniversary of the Ondine label in 2005. His personal great appreciation for the music of Ravel prompted Reijo Kiilunen to name his company after the first movement of Ravel's piano cycle Gaspard de la nuit, when he started business in 1985.

This CD includes the title piece Ondine both in its orchestration by Marius Constant, performed by the Orchestre de Paris under Christoph Eschenbach, as well as in the original piano version, performed by Tzimon Barto. Gaspard de la nuit was written on an inspiration drawn from three poems by Aloysius Bertrand (1807–1841), which are also included on this recording, recited by the great French actress Carole Bouquet.

## Features

Booklet with liner notes in English, French, German and Finnish and the recited texts in the original French and in English

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## Related pages

- [Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/composers/ravel-maurice.md)
- [Carole Bouquet, narrator](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/artists/bouquet-carole.md)
- [Tzimon Barto, piano](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/artists/barto-tzimon.md)
- [Orchestre de Paris, Ensemble](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/artists/orchestre-de-paris.md)

## Also recommended

- [Maurice Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit · Miroirs · Jeux d'eau](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1095-2.md): Tzimon Barto, piano (ODE 1095-2, 2007)