Ravel: Complete works for piano duet

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These performances from Denmark are all affectionate and notably intelligent and they are powerfully yet pleasingly recorded. The culmination of this set is a fine account of that terrifying... — Gramophone Magazine, October 1988 More…

Release Date: 7th Feb 2011
Catalogue No: 94176
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 88 minutes

Ravel: Introduction et Allegro (Version for 2 pianos)

Work length11:02

$3.00

$3.85

Piano Duo Thorson and Thurber

Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole

Work length15:39

$4.00

$5.20

Piano Duo Thorson and Thurber

I. Prelude a la nuit (Version for 2 pianos)

Track length4:30

$1.00

$1.30

II. Malagueña (Version for 2 pianos)

Track length1:58

$1.00

$1.30

III. Habanera (Version for 2 pianos)

Track length2:56

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Feria (Version for 2 pianos)

Track length6:15

$1.00

$1.30

Ravel: Sites auriculaires

Work length3:42

$1.00

$1.30

Piano Duo Thorson and Thurber

Entre cloches

Track length3:42

$1.00

$1.30

Ravel: Boléro

Work length14:38

$3.00

$3.85

Piano Duo Thorson and Thurber

Bolero (version for 2 pianos) [Version for piano 4 hands]

Track length14:38

$3.00

$3.85

Ravel: Ma mere l'Oye (Mother Goose) [version for 2 pianos]

Work length16:02

$5.00

$6.50

Piano Duo Thorson and Thurber

I. Pavane de la belle au bois dormant [Pavane of Beauty Sleeping in the Wood]

Track length1:57

$1.00

$1.30

II. Petit poucet [Tom Thumb]

Track length3:03

$1.00

$1.30

III. Laideronette, Imperatrice des pagodes [Laideronette, Empress of the Pagodas]

Track length3:23

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Les entretiens de la belle et de la bete [the Conversations of Beauty and the Beast]

Track length4:28

$1.00

$1.30

V. Le jardin feerique [the Fairy Garden]

Track length3:11

$1.00

$1.30

Ravel: Fanfare (Version for 2 pianos)

Work length1:24

$1.00

$1.30

Piano Duo Thorson and Thurber

Ravel: Shéhérazade - Ouverture de féerie

Work length12:41

$3.00

$3.85

Piano Duo Thorson and Thurber

Ravel: Frontispice for poème du Vardar

Work length1:54

$1.00

$1.30

Piano Duo Thorson and Thurber and David Gardiner, David Gardiner
Piano Duo Thorson and Thurber

Ravel: La Valse (for 2 pianos)

Work length11:44

$3.00

$3.85

Piano Duo Thorson and Thurber

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Ravel was a pianist, and the piano was central to his art. The piano was the instrument through which he discovered and expressed innovations in style, technique and expression. He composed at the piano, and, unsurprisingly, many of his orchestral works (Bolero being the exception) appeared in piano versions. Although his entire output is modest – around 60 works, he transcribed more than half of these works for 2 pianos, or piano duet.

Apart from the well known works, this 2cd set contains some little known pieces – Entre cloches of 1897 was only published in 1975, and was originally appended to the Haberna, now better known as the 3rd movement of Rapsodie espagnole. Frontispice for 2 pianos, 5 hands was written in 1918.

Ravel’s mother had died in 1917, and he was deeply attached to her. Her loss resulted in 3 years of musical silence, with the exception of Frontispice. It is a short and very experimental work published with a collection of philospohical war poetry by the Italian Ricciotto Canudo. It is a curiously evocative work, almost surreal.

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October 1988

These performances from Denmark are all affectionate and notably intelligent and they are powerfully yet pleasingly recorded. The culmination of this set is a fine account of that terrifying masterpiece La valse. Recommended.

Ravel: Complete works for piano duet

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