Sakari Oramo, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra - Ravel: La Valse (2021)
Sakari Oramo, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra - Ravel: La Valse; Alborada del gracioso; Le Tombeau de Couperin; Pavane; Une barque sur l’océan (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 290 Mb | Total time: 68:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2438 | Recorded: 2020, 2021
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 290 Mb | Total time: 68:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2438 | Recorded: 2020, 2021
Maurice Ravel composed a number of works which have become classics of the repertoire both for solo piano and for orchestra. On the present disc, all except one work were first conceived for piano, which raises the question how it is possible to transfer such pianistic music to the orchestra without making it sound like a mere ‘colourized’ version. Ravel’s orchestral writing was the result of a long apprenticeship and careful study of orchestration treatises as well as scores, notably of works by Rimsky-Korsakov and Richard Strauss. Although his skills as an orchestrator are much admired today, his ability to coax new sounds out of the orchestra wasn't always appreciated in his own time, however – in 1907 the critic Pierre Lalo complained that ‘in Ravel’s orchestra, no instrument retains its natural sound…’ Among the works performed here by Sakari Oramo and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra are some of Ravel’s earliest compositions, including the much loved Pavane pour une infante défunte, but the disc closes with a later work: La Valse, written in 1920 as one of only four works by Ravel originally conceived for orchestra. The idea of composing a tribute to Johann Strauss had pursued Ravel since 1906, but it took a commission from Sergei Diaghilev of the Ballets russes for him to return to the project. When Diaghilev found it unsuited for a ballet, Ravel gave it the subtitle ‘choreographic poem for orchestra’. It was performed in concert in 1920 for the first time and enjoyed an immediate success.
Performer:
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor
Track List:
Le Tombeau de Couperin (1914—17/1919, 2013)
01. I. Prélude
02. II. Fugue
03. II. Forlane
04. IV. Rigaudon
05. III. Menuet
06. VI. Toccata
07. Alborada del gracioso (1904—05/1918)
08. Une barque sur l’océan (1904—05/1906?)
09. Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899/1910)
10. Menuet antique (1895/1929)
11. La Valse, poème chorégraphique (1919—20)
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Sakari Oramo, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra - Ravel: La Valse (2021)
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