Maurice Ravel
Valses nobles et sentimentales · Menuet antique · Frontispice (orch. Boulez) · Shéhérazade Ouverture · Ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose), Ballet
Basque National Orchestra · Robert Trevino
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Composer
Maurice Ravel
1875-1937
French composer and pianist Maurice Ravel (born March 7, 1875 in Ciboure near Biarritz, France; died December 28, 1937 in Paris) is best known to the general public for his orchestral piece Boléro of 1928, which he himself described as 'a piece for orchestra without music', but nevertheless is reputed to be the most often played composition of classical music.
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Ravel's virtuosic and colorful piano music gave inspiration to Reijo Kiilunen, the founder of Ondine Records, to name the company after the first movement of the piano cycle Gaspard de la nuit.
Works
- Sonata in G for Violin and Piano
- Pavane pour une infante défunte
- Menuet antique
- Le Tombeau de Couperin
- Ondine
- Alborada del gracioso
- Gaspard de la nuit (Orchestral version by Marius Constant)
- Gaspard de la nuit
- Miroirs
- Vocalise
- Shéhérazade
Discography (extract)
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Maurice Ravel
Bolero · La Valse · Rapsodie espagnole · Alborada del gracioso · Une barque sur l'océan · Pavane pour une infante défunte
Basque National Orchestra · Robert Trevino, conductor
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Véronique Gens
Berlioz & Ravel
Véronique Gens, soprano · Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire · John Axelrod, conductor
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