- Artist:
- Seong-Jin Cho
Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works
2CD Digipac
€16,50
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Release date: 17 January 2025
Article Number: 513677000
Seong-Jin Cho is opening the Ravel Year 2025 with his most ambitious project to date for Deutsche Grammophon: the Korean star pianist is releasing three Ravel albums between January and April to mark the French composer's 150th birthday.
This first release comprises the complete works for solo piano in chronological order. In the summer of 2024, Cho faced the historic, comprehensive work in the historic Siemens Villa in Berlin: “Ravel knew what he wanted, so I tried to stick to his exact playing instructions. Miroirs, for example, is technically incredibly challenging. It is emotional and dramatic, full of fantasy and color. It's almost impossible to follow every indication, but I do my best!” says Cho.
This seems to be working, as recent reviews suggest: After a recital in Madrid, Scherzo named Cho “perhaps the best Ravel interpreter of our time”, while The Scotsman stated after the performance at the Edinburgh Festival: “Cho played the Ravel part of the concerto with almost incomprehensible precision in contrasting and rich colors, he was as if in the flow of the music, which allowed it to breathe full of lightness and warmth.”
Tracklisting:
CD1
Sérénade grotesque, M. 5
Menuet antique, M. 7
Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19
Jeux d'eau, M. 30
Sonatine, M. 40:
I. Modéré
II. Mouvement de menuet
III. Animé
Miroirs, M. 43:
I. Noctuelles.Très léger
II. Oiseux tristes. Très lent
III. Une barque sur l'océan. D'un rythme souple
IV. Alborada del gracioso. Assez vif
V. La vallée des cloches. Très lent
CD2
Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55:
I. Ondine. Lent
II. Le Gibet. Très lent
III. Scarbo. Modéré
Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn, M. 58
Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61:
I. Modéré, très franc
II. Assez lent, avec une expression intense
III. Modéré
IV. Assez animé
V. Presque lent, dans un sentiment intime
VI. Vif
VII. Moins vif
VIII. Épilogue. Lent
Prélude, M. 65
À la manière de Borodine, M. 63/1
À la manière de Chabrier, M. 63/2
Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68:
I. Prélude. Vif
II. Fugue. Allegro moderato
III. Forlane. Allegretto
IV. Rigaudon. Assez vif
V. Menuet. Allegro moderato
VI. Toccata. Vif
Release Date
2025
