Thomas Zehetmair plays Ravel & Debussy

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a lucid, eloquently poised account of the Pavane pour une infante defunte: the music's instrumental colours...are attractively muted but at the same time sensitively defined and melded...Zehetmair... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2014 More…

Release Date: 25th Nov 2013
Catalogue No: V5345
Label: Naive
Length: 65 minutes

Ravel: Tzigane

Work length10:05

$3.00

$3.85

Orchestre de Chambre de Paris
Thomas Zehetmair
Recorded: July 2013
Recording Venue: Salle 400, Le Centquatre, Paris, France

Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte

Work length6:02

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$1.30

Orchestre de Chambre de Paris
Thomas Zehetmair
Recorded: July 2013
Recording Venue: Salle 400, Le Centquatre, Paris, France

Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin - Orchestral version

Work length16:35

$4.00

$5.20

Orchestre de Chambre de Paris
Thomas Zehetmair
Recorded: July 2013
Recording Venue: Salle 400, Le Centquatre, Paris, France

I. Prelude

Track length2:59

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$1.30

II. Forlane

Track length5:31

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III. Menuet

Track length4:52

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IV. Rigaudon

Track length3:13

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$1.30

Debussy: En bateau (from Petite Suite)

Work length13:13

$4.00

$5.20

Orchestre de Chambre de Paris
Thomas Zehetmair
Recorded: July 2013
Recording Venue: Salle 400, Le Centquatre, Paris, France

I. En bateau

Track length3:43

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$1.30

II. Cortege

Track length3:24

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III. Menuet

Track length3:05

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IV. Ballet

Track length3:01

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$1.30

Debussy: Danses sacrée et profane

Work length9:17

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$2.60

Emmanuel Ceysson (harp)
Orchestre de Chambre de Paris
Thomas Zehetmair
Recorded: July 2013
Recording Venue: Salle 400, Le Centquatre, Paris, France

No. 1. Danse sacree

Track length4:36

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No. 2. Danse profane

Track length4:41

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Debussy: Pour le piano: Sarabande

Work length4:19

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$1.30

Orchestre de Chambre de Paris
Thomas Zehetmair
Recorded: July 2013
Recording Venue: Salle 400, Le Centquatre, Paris, France

Debussy: Danse (Tarentelle styrienne)

Work length5:32

$1.00

$1.30

Orchestre de Chambre de Paris
Thomas Zehetmair
Recorded: July 2013
Recording Venue: Salle 400, Le Centquatre, Paris, France

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Renowned for their excellence in the French repertoire, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris are now under the musical direction of violinist and conductor Thomas Zehetmair.

The debut recording of their collaboration is a luminous programme dedicated to two giants of French music, Ravel and Debussy. Thomas Zehetmair, renowned for his amazing discography on ECM as violinist and leader of the Zehetmair Quartet, records Ravel's famous Tzigane for the first time.

The world-famous violinist, conductor and chamber musician Thomas Zehetmair has been Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris since the 2012/13 season. He has appeared as a violinist in the leading European venues, including the Royal Festival Hall in London, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Munich Philharmonie, and the Cologne Philharmonie, and developed a parallel career as a conductor with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Helsinki, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris. In 2002 he was appointed Music Director of the Northern Sinfonia in the UK, and since 2010 he has been Artistic Partner of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in the United States.

In the course of the 2012/13 season he concentrated his activities on his artistic partnerships with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the Northern Sinfonia in Newcastle, and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, but also appeared as guest conductor with the Tonkünstler-Orchester, the Münchner Kammerorchester, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, and the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra. He performed as a violinist with Pierre-Laurent Aimard, the Zehetmair Quartett, the Orchestre du Théâtre de la Monnaie, and on tour with the Bamberger Symphoniker conducted by Jonathan Nott.

His recordings of the major works of the violin repertoire have won numerous prizes, including three Gramophone Awards and three Diapasons d’Or of the Year. His version of the Mozart concertos with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century under the direction of Frans Brüggen is regarded as a benchmark. In 2005 Thomas Zehetmair received the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik for his artistic versatility. He holds an honorary doctorate from the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar.

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February 2014

a lucid, eloquently poised account of the Pavane pour une infante defunte: the music's instrumental colours...are attractively muted but at the same time sensitively defined and melded...Zehetmair achieves comparable finesse and fluency in Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin and Debussy's Petite Suite.

28th January 2014

The feature that makes this new release unique and worth an exploration is its smaller ensemble, which for me translated into greater textural clarity without any sacrifices in terms of richness of sound...[in Tzigane] Zehetmair casts away pleasantries and infuses the work with a raw savagery

Thomas Zehetmair plays Ravel & Debussy

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