Stravinsky, Ravel & Gershwin: Transcriptions and original piano works

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Release Date: 2nd Feb 2015
Catalogue No: GP696
Label: Grand Piano
Length: 65 minutes

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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Pt. I "Adoration of the Earth"

Work length14:47

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Eric Ferrand-N'Kaoua (piano)
Recorded: 22 December 2013
Recording Venue: Auditorium Marcel Landowski, Conservatoire a Rayonnement Regional de Paris, France

Introduction

Track length2:59

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The Augurs of Spring - Dances of the Young Girls

Track length3:01

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Ritual of Abduction

Track length1:24

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Spring Rounds

Track length3:13

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Ritual of the River Tribes - Procession of the Sage - The Sage

Track length2:52

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Dance of the Earth

Track length1:18

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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Pt. II "The Sacrifice"

Work length17:06

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Eric Ferrand-N'Kaoua (piano)
Recorded: 22 December 2013
Recording Venue: Auditorium Marcel Landowski, Conservatoire a Rayonnement Regional de Paris, France

Introduction

Track length4:09

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Mystic Circles of the Young Girls

Track length2:30

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Glorification of the Chosen One

Track length1:33

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Evocation of the Ancestors

Track length0:48

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Ritual Action of the Ancestors

Track length3:32

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Sacrificial Dance

Track length4:34

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Ravel: La Valse

Work length11:40

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Eric Ferrand-N'Kaoua (piano)
Recorded: 8 December 2013
Recording Venue: Auditorium Marcel Landowski, Conservatoire a Rayonnement Regional de Paris, France

Gershwin: Preludes (3)

Work length6:09

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Eric Ferrand-N'Kaoua (piano)
Recorded: 8 December 2013
Recording Venue: Auditorium Marcel Landowski, Conservatoire a Rayonnement Regional de Paris, France

No. 1, Allegro ben ritmato e deciso

Track length1:33

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No. 2, Andante con moto e poco rubato

Track length3:24

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No. 3, Allegro ben ritmato e deciso

Track length1:12

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Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

Work length15:23

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Eric Ferrand-N'Kaoua (piano)

Molto Moderato

Track length9:59

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Andantino moderato

Track length2:26

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Agitato e mesterioso

Track length2:58

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Stravinsky’s groundbreaking Rite of Spring is heard on this recording in the formidable yet seldom performed solo piano transcription by the 20th-century American composer and pianist Sam Raphling. It is coupled with Ravel’s own virtuosic transcription of La Valse, Gershwin’s jazz-infused 3 Preludes and his own solo piano version of Rhapsody in Blue.

Key Features: This recording is a genuine pianistic event. It gathers together a long tradition for arrangement-making and originality in repertoire of which the solo versions are rarely heard in the concert hall. These feature a stunningly distinctive piano transcription of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, and original solo versions of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Ravel’s La Valse. Eric Ferrand-N’Kaoua has been acclaimed for his natural sense of phrasing and color, but in this case it is the colors of an entire orchestra which are demanded by Sam Raphling’s seldom played and spectacularly virtuoso transcription of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring which is equal in this regard to Ravel’s own solo piano version of La Valse. Gershwin’s music adds a flavor of American swing via the Three Preludes, followed by the composer’s very pure, complete piano version of his famous Rhapsody in Blue.

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