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20th Century String Quartets - Debussy, Ravel, Toldra, Zemlinsky / Cuarteto Casals

2 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2012-07-10

Works: Claude Debussy: Quartet for Strings in G minor, Op. 10; Alexander von Zemlinsky: Quartet for Strings no 2, Op. 15; Maurice Ravel: Quartet for Strings in F major; Eduardo Toldrá: Vistes al mar, f...

This double album brings together two recordings from 2004 and 2006 in which the Cuarteto Casals opportunely demonstrated its virtuosity and the links between figures...continue...
Recording information: Estudio "L'Auditorium" de Anacrusi s.l., Jafre, Girona....continue...

Reflections: Ravel, Decaux & Schoenberg / Frederic Chiu, piano

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2012-02-14

Works: Maurice Ravel: Miroirs; Abel Decaux: Clairs de lune; Arnold Schoenberg: Pieces (3) for piano, Op. 11
Performers: Chiu, Frederic [Piano]

Recording information: Skywalker Sound (10/25/1994-10/27/1994)....continue...

Voyage en France / Alexandre Tharaud, Philippe Bernold, Ronald Van Spaendonck

2 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2011-08-09

Works: Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales; Pavane pour une infante défunte; Jeux d'eau; Menuet, for piano in C sharp minor; Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn; Menuet antique; Sérénad...
Performers: Bernold, Philippe; Spaendonck, Ronald Van; Tharaud, Alexandre

Debussy, Dutilleux, Ravel: String Quartets

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2010-09-14

Works: Claude Debussy: Quartet for Strings in G minor, Op. 10; Henri Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit, for string quartet; Maurice Ravel: Quartet for Strings in F major

Unlike Beethoven and Bartok, both fascinated by the string quartet throughout their creative life, most French composers were cautious in their approach to a formation...continue...
Recording information: Teldex Studio Berlin (10/2009)....continue...

Ravel: Works for Violin and Piano / Régis Pasquier, Brigitte Engerer

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2008-08-12

Works: Maurice Ravel: Sonata Posthume for Violin and Piano; Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major; Kaddisch, song for voice & piano (Mélodie hébraïque no 1); Tzigane; Pièce en for...
Performers: Engerer, Brigitte; Pasquier, Régis

Ravel, Chausson: Piano Trios / Wanderer Trio

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2007-03-20

Works: Maurice Ravel: Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in A minor; Ernest Chausson: Trio for Piano and Strings in G minor, Op. 3
Conductors:
Ensemble: Trio Wanderer

BBC Music Magazine
Cool but not cold, nostalgic but not sentimental - performing Ravel's Piano Trio can be a bit like treading on egg shells, yet...continue...

Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition - Chen

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2005-10-11

Works: Frédéric Chopin: Sonata for Piano no 3 in B minor, Op. 58; Maurice Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit; Sebastian Currier: Scarlatti Cadences, for piano; Brainstorm, for piano; Franz Liszt: Rhapsodie...
Performers: Chen, Sa

Sa Chen, winner of the inaugural Crystal Award for third place at the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, shows a remarkable facility for textural...continue...

Ravel: Complete Piano Works / Alexandre Tharaud

2 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2003-12-01

Works: Maurice Ravel: A la manière de. . . , for piano; Gaspard de la nuit; Prélude for Piano in A minor; Valses nobles et sentimentales; Sonatine for Piano; Pavane pour une infante défun...
Performers: Tharaud, Alexandre

In his exacting quest for precision, clarity and formal perfection, Ravel is indeed a modern 'classicist'. Yet simplicity, ironly and humor are never far away,...continue...

Chabrier: Oeuvres pour Piano / Alain Planès

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2002-07-01

Works: Emmanuel Chabrier: Pièces pittoresques (10), for piano; Bourrée fantasque, for piano (also for orchestra); Impromptu, for piano in C major; Habañera, for piano (or orchestra); Piè...
Performers: Planès, Alain

"We have just heard something extraordinary: music that connects our time with that of Couperin and Rameau." -Cesar Franck...continue...

Ravel: Boléro, La Valse, etc / Casadesus, Pludermacher

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2000-11-01

Works: Maurice Ravel: La valse; Concerto for Piano left hand; Concerto for Piano in G major; Boléro
Performers: Pludermacher, Georges [Piano]
Conductors: Casadesus, Jean-Claude
Ensemble: Lille National Orchestra

Ravel said of his famous "Bolero," "Do you not find that there is something insistent in this theme? I shall try to repeat it incessantly,...continue...