Maurice Ravel: in Search of Lost Dance

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It's a great pleasure to hear Ravel’s majestic and technically demanding Piano Trio without insertions of meaningless rubato, and with every note in place. The only thing I was left wishing for... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 30th Jun 2023
Catalogue No: AVI8553526
Label: Avi Music
Length: 58 minutes

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Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor

Work length27:21

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Prach Boondiskulchok (piano), Konrad Elias-Trostmann (violin), Vladimir Waltham (cello)
Linos Piano Trio
Recorded: 2022-09
Recording Venue: Hans-Rosbaud-Studio, Baden-Baden

I. Modéré

Track length9:35

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II. Pantoum. Assez vif

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III. Passacaille. Très large

Track length7:44

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IV. Final. Animé

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Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte

Work length6:08

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Arr. Linos Piano Trio
Prach Boondiskulchok (piano), Vladimir Waltham (cello), Konrad Elias-Trostmann (violin)
Linos Piano Trio
Recorded: 2022-09
Recording Venue: Hans-Rosbaud-Studio, Baden-Baden

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin

Work length25:18

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Arr. Linos Piano Trio
Prach Boondiskulchok (piano), Vladimir Waltham (cello), Konrad Elias-Trostmann (violin)
Linos Piano Trio
Recorded: 2022-09
Recording Venue: Hans-Rosbaud-Studio, Baden-Baden

I. Prélude

Track length3:34

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II. Fugue

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III. Forlane

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IV. Rigaudon

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V. Menuet

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VI. Toccata

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The most important news on here is that LINOS PIANO TRIO is playing music by Maurice Ravel on period instruments. Two of the three recorded pieces are arrangements for trio by the Linos musicians, the famous Pavane pour une infante defunte and Le tombeau de Couperin.

"In the face of change, memory becomes precious. This is especially true for Maurice Ravel whose important source of creativity lies in evoking the memories of music from the past. In Ravel's hand, these memories are delicately suspended between decadence and invention, between nostalgia and progressiveness. Such memories reside in the body, in the form of half-forgotten dances, to be simultaneously recalled and reinvented.

The Linos Piano Trio's In Search of Lost Dances recording centres on the time of greatest change in Ravel's life, juxtaposing his seminal Piano Trio, written weeks before the outbreak of the First World War, with Le Tombeau de Couperin, written between 1914 and 1917--each of its six movements dedicated to a friend lost to the war. Mirroring each other, the baroque dances of Le Tombeau illuminate the less obvious dances hidden in the Piano Trio, while the textural innovation in the Piano Trio serves as a model for Linos to reimagine Le Tombeau in this new trio arrangement. These two major works are complimented by Pavane pour une Infante defunte (also transcribed by Linos), a much earlier work evoking the stately 16th century Spanish dance. Marcel Proust, whose epic book In Search of Lost Time was the inspiration for the title of this recording, loved Pavane pour une Infante defunte and had it played at his own funeral.

While both the titles of the Pavane and Le Tombeau have funereal overtones, the music itself is vivid and full of light. It is as if through these backward-glancing dances, Ravel processed his losses. However, the emphasis for us in In Search of Lost Dances is not on the "lost", but rather on the "search": a new path through these three well-known pieces, re-finding their novel ingenuity." (Linos Piano Trio)

On period instruments: Konrad Elias-Trostmann Violin (Peter Greiner 2010, after Guarneri del Gesu 1743. Gut strings (3 plain, 1 wound) Vladimir Waltham Cello (Naples ca. 1880. Gut strings (2 plain, 2 wound) Brach Boondiskulchok Piano (Erard Concert Grand 1882 No. 56105)

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July 2023

It's a great pleasure to hear Ravel’s majestic and technically demanding Piano Trio without insertions of meaningless rubato, and with every note in place. The only thing I was left wishing for was a more scrupulous observation of his dynamic markings.

Nov/Dec 2023

the Linos Piano Trio’s performances feature string vibrato, as well as occasional portamento. The superb execution, intensity, flexibility, and tonal richness of the ensemble’s performances would, I think, gratify audiences of any era.

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