RAVEL MAURICE - PIANO TRIO, MALLARME POEMS & OTHER CHAMBER WORKS

Music Minus One Piano-Written in 1941 Maurice Ravel's piano trio was premiered on January 28 1915 in Paris with distinguished pianist Alfredo Casella playing the piano part. Filled with Basque themes and Ravel's unique impressionist effects the four-movement trio is a wonderful piece which is in its own way reminiscent at times of his famous Gaspard de la Nuit. Highly recommended for any devotée of the famous French composer. Includes a high-quality printed solo part and a compact disc containing a complete performance with soloist then a second version with the accompaniment minus you the soloist. Performed by Edwin Hymovitz piano Accompaniment: The Vardi Trio: Emanuel Vardi violin AlanShulman violoncello

Ravel was not only a master craftsman of exquisitely constructed chamber works but he was also a key innovator inspired by the tonal/atonal experiments of Schoenberg Stravinsky and the Second Viennese School. This is most closely reflected in the remarkable Mallarmé Poems Ravel's closest approach to the modernist innovations. Elsewhere his Piano Trio presents a perfect example of the delicacy and intricacy of Ravel's chamber music. Joined by several other full chamber pieces this is music that presents Ravel at his most musically ambitious brought together for the first time in one large-format attractively-priced volume.

Par RAVEL MAURICE. Created during the First World War, Maurice Ravel's composition 'Le Tombeau de Couperin' casts a longing look at the past while at the same time being full to the brim with traces of modern music. Each of the six movements is dedicated to friends who died in battle. In 1919 Ravel arranged four of these movements for large orchestra by skilfully borrowing melodic lines and colours from the piano setting. In the present new arrangement written for the Stella Piano Trio, these elements were adjusted to the instrumentation and their relationship within the ensemble. As in Ravel's orchestration, each note is taken into account, even if the cello is sometimes given a melody which is an octave lower than the original./ Répertoire / Trio avec Piano

Par RAVEL MAURICE. Maurice Ravel mélancolique populaire 'Pavane pour une infante défunte ' composé en 1899 a été écrite à l'origine pour piano avant il arrange pour orchestre en 1910. Bien que dédié à une véritable princesse, la Princesse de Polignac, le travail ne fait pas référence à une personne historique réelle./ Répertoire / Trio à Cordes