Ravel: The complete solo piano music

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Ravel essentially reimagined how to write for the piano with each significant work. Osborne is more than up to the task...Throughout, [he] repeatedly demonstrates not merely that these performances... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Feb 2011
Catalogue No: CDA67731-2
Label: Hyperion
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

BBC Music Magazine Awards

2012

Instrumental Finalist
Gramophone Awards

2011

Finalist - Instrumental
BBC Music Magazine

May 2011

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Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit

Work length23:14

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Steven Osborne (piano)

I. Ondine

Track length6:22

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II. Le gibet

Track length7:25

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III. Scarbo

Track length9:27

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Ravel: Sonatine

Work length10:58

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Steven Osborne (piano)

I. Modéré

Track length4:10

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II. Mouvement de menuet

Track length3:07

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III. Animé

Track length3:41

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Ravel: Miroirs, M.43

Work length29:53

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Steven Osborne (piano)

I. Noctuelles

Track length4:49

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II. Oiseaux tristes

Track length4:33

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III. Une barque sur l'océan

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IV. Alborada del gracioso

Track length6:52

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V. La vallée des cloches

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Ravel: La Valse

Work length11:40

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Steven Osborne (piano)

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin

Work length23:39

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Steven Osborne (piano)

I. Prélude

Track length2:54

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II. Fugue

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III. Forlane

Track length5:51

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IV. Rigaudon

Track length3:01

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V. Menuet

Track length4:39

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VI. Toccata

Track length3:49

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Ravel: Menuet in C sharp minor

Work length0:45

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Steven Osborne (piano)

Ravel: Menuet antique

Work length6:18

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Steven Osborne (piano)

Ravel: Sérénade grotesque

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Steven Osborne (piano)

Ravel: Jeux d'eau

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Steven Osborne (piano)

Ravel: Prélude

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Steven Osborne (piano)

Ravel: Menuet sur le nom de Haydn

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Steven Osborne (piano)

Ravel: A la manière de Borodine

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Steven Osborne (piano)

Ravel: A la manière de Chabrier

Work length1:36

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Steven Osborne (piano)

Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte

Work length6:21

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Steven Osborne (piano)

Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales

Work length15:00

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Steven Osborne (piano)

I. Modéré – Très franc

Track length1:14

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II. Assez lent

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III. Modéré

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IV. Assez animé

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V. Presque lent

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VI. Vif

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VII. Moins vif

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VIII. Epilogue: Lent

Track length4:49

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Recording of the Week, Steven Osborne performs Piano Concertos by Ravel and Manuel de Falla

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Favourites, Maurice Ravel

James picks some recordings of the music of French composer, Maurice Ravel.

New releases of Steven Osborne’s best-selling discs have become some of the most eagerly-awaited events in the pianophile diary. This most delicate and subtle of musicians also displays a pyrotechnical deployment of digital acrobatics, mesmerising colour control and breathtaking articulation. All these qualities are visible in this two-disc set of some of the most important piano music of the early twentieth century. Ravel’s works have been central, too, to Steven Osborne’s performing repertoire throughout his career, making this set a perfect marriage of composer and performer.

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May 2011

Ravel essentially reimagined how to write for the piano with each significant work. Osborne is more than up to the task...Throughout, [he] repeatedly demonstrates not merely that these performances stand with the best, but also that comparisons are superfluous in the face of such a compelling vision...His sustaining of the 'Epilogue' is magical, as if not wishing to relinquish the spell of this recital. It is over all too soon.

April 2011

His tempos, kaleidoscopic tonal colouring, textual clarity, and amazing dynamic range and variety of touch manifest an innate empathy with the composer...These are inspired performances with Award Winner written all over them. The perfectly-voiced piano, the venue/acoustic, producer and engineer, and an artist who was born to play Ravel combine to make the best complete Ravel cycle on disc.

12th March 2011

A precise and balanced interpretation

April 2011

[Gaspard] is technically immaculate...and gently seductive before turning on a more sinister pressure..."Alborada" from Miroirs is another striking success, where a trickster's ribaldry and high jinxs explode into violence, and in La Valse (suitably arranged and "orchestrated"), Osborne spins his dancers towards a visceral and devastating oblivion.

August 2014

a remarkable account of Le Tombeau de Couperin, full of imaginative colours and immaculate technique. Osborne's performance of the original solo piano version of the Pavane pour une infante défunte is just magical, and as a bonus he includes Ravel's own transcription of La valse, a real tour de force in Osborne's hands.

17th March 2011

Steven Osborne's survey of [Ravel] is an unqualified delight....His playing...is equally well suited to the delicate classicism of the Sonatine, the scene painting of Miroirs and the nostalgia for the 18th century in Le Tombeau de Couperin as it is to the more extrovert virtuosity of the Valses Nobles et Sentimentales.

13th February 2011

Steven Osborne, ever a poised, technically impeccable virtuoso, combines clarity with heart. All a shimmering pleasure.

25th March 2011

Steven Osborne brings his masterly interpretative acumen to bear with a touch and temperament that combine eloquence and deftness. Landmark works are set alongside various less frequently heard miniatures in performances that live and breathe Ravel’s distinctive world of sound, radiating luminous patterns and scintillating colour.

Ravel: The complete solo piano music

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Recording of the Week, Steven Osborne performs Piano Concertos by Ravel and Manuel de Falla

Favourites, Maurice Ravel

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