New Album Releases: RAVEL - LA VALSE (Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra & Sakari Oramo)

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Artist:
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Sakari Oramo

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
68:37

Record Label:
Bis

Purchasing Links:
CD, Apple Music

Release Date
February 4, 2022



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Product Description: Maurice Ravel composed a number of works which have become classics of the repertoire both for solo piano and for orchestra. On the present disc, all except one work were first conceived for piano, which raises the question how it is possible to transfer such pianistic music to the orchestra without making it sound like a mere ‘colorized’ version. Ravel’s orchestral writing was the result of a long apprenticeship and careful study of orchestration treatises as well as scores, notably of works by Rimsky-Korsakov and Richard Strauss. Although his skills as an orchestrator are much admired today, his ability to coax new sounds out of the orchestra wasn't always appreciated in his own time, however – in 1907 the critic Pierre Lalo complained that ‘in Ravel’s orchestra, no instrument retains its natural sound…’ Among the works performed here by Sakari Oramo and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra are some of Ravel’s earliest compositions, including the much loved Pavane pour une infante défunte, but the album closes with a later work: La Valse, written in 1920 as one of only four works by Ravel originally conceived for orchestra. The idea of composing a tribute to Johann Strauss had pursued Ravel since 1906, but it took a commission from Sergei Diaghilev of the Ballets russes for him to return to the project. When Diaghilev found it unsuited for a ballet, Ravel gave it the subtitle ‘choreographic poem for orchestra’. It was performed in concert in 1920 for the first time and enjoyed an immediate success.

TRACK LIST:

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Le Tombeau de Couperin

1 . I. Prélude Maurice Ravel Sakari Oramo / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (3:26)

2 . II. Fugue Maurice Ravel Sakari Oramo / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (3:51)

3 . III. Forlane Maurice Ravel Sakari Oramo / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (6:03)

4 . IV. Rigaudon Maurice Ravel Sakari Oramo / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (3:08)

5 . V. Menuet Maurice Ravel Sakari Oramo / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (5:05)

6 . VI. Toccata Maurice Ravel Sakari Oramo / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (4:07)

7 . Alborada del gracioso Maurice Ravel Sakari Oramo / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (8:09)

8 . Une barque sur l'océan Maurice Ravel Sakari Oramo / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (8:43)

9 . Pavane pour une infante défunte Maurice Ravel Sakari Oramo / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (6:38)

10 . Menuet antique Maurice Ravel Sakari Oramo / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (6:41)

11 . La Valse, poème chorégraphique Maurice Ravel Sakari Oramo / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (12:46)

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