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Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music

~ Maurice Ravel
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  • Performer: Angela Hewitt
  • Audio CD (22 Mar 2002)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Hyperion
  • ASIN: B000063TSM
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 72,346 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc: 1
1. Menuet antique
2. Pavane pour une infante defunte
3. Sonatine: Modere
4. Sonatine: Mouvement de menuet
5. Sonatine: Anime
6. Valses nobles et sentimentales: Modere-tres franc
7. Valses nobles et sentimentales: Assez lent
8. Valses nobles et sentimentales: Modere
9. Valses nobles et sentimentales: Assez lent
10. Valses nobles et sentimentales: Presque lent
See all 19 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Serenade grotesque
2. Jeux d'eau
3. Gaspard de la nuit: Ondine
4. Gaspard de la nuit: Le Gibet
5. Gaspard de la nuit: Scarbo
6. Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn
7. Prelude
8. A la maniere de Borodine
9. A la maniere de Chabrier
10. Miroirs: Noctuelles
See all 14 tracks on this disc
On this CD:
  1. Menuet antique
    Composed by Maurice Ravel
    with Angela Hewitt

  2. Pavane pour une infante défunte
    Composed by Maurice Ravel
    with Angela Hewitt

  3. Piano Sonatine
    Composed by Maurice Ravel
    with Angela Hewitt

  4. Valses nobles et sentimentales
    Composed by Maurice Ravel
    with Angela Hewitt

  5. Le tombeau de Couperin
    Composed by Maurice Ravel
    with Angela Hewitt

  6. Sérénade grotesque
    Composed by Maurice Ravel
    with Angela Hewitt

  7. Jeux d'eau
    Composed by Maurice Ravel
    with Angela Hewitt

  8. Gaspard de la nuit
    Composed by Maurice Ravel
    with Angela Hewitt

  9. Menuet sur le nom de Haydn
    Composed by Maurice Ravel
    with Angela Hewitt

  10. Prélude in A minor
    Composed by Maurice Ravel
    with Angela Hewitt

  11. A la manière de Borodine
    Composed by Maurice Ravel
    with Angela Hewitt

  12. A la manière de Chabrier
    Composed by Maurice Ravel
    with Angela Hewitt

  13. Miroirs
    Composed by Maurice Ravel
    with Angela Hewitt

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Taking time off from her definitive series of J S Bach recordings, Angela Hewitt here brings us the complete solo piano music of Ravel, and anyone who wondered whether this seemingly dyed-in-the wool Bachian might stumble, should rest assured: this is an absolutely stunning double disc. As Hewitt makes clear in her characteristically illuminating sleeve notes, Stravinsky's jibe that Ravel was "only a Swiss clock-maker" was hopelessly wide of the mark. "One doesn't need to open one's chest to show that one has a heart," said Ravel, and in these often understated recordings one is made to feel his point powerfully. "Scarbo" is all the more dramatic through the suppressed excitement Hewitt's playing exudes; "Ondine" and "Le Gibet" are at once immaculately controlled and intensely atmospheric. In addition to those works most frequently played, we also get rarities such as "Sérénade grotesque", written when Ravel was 18, and not published until 1975. As Hewitt points out, Ravel's favourite composer was Mozart, and she plays him with a positively Mozartian subtlety of nuance. --Michael Church

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5.0 out of 5 stars More than a "Bach Specialist", 5 Feb 2006
By Alan Lekan (Boulder, CO) - See all my reviews
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Taking a break from her vast Bach cycle for Hyperion Records, Angela Hewitt puts her mind and fingers to the very different musical challanges of Maurice Ravel and the French Romantic style. Well, all here is not completely divergent from Bach's music as Ravel's "Le Tombeau de Couperin" is a "Bach-like suite" containing a prelude, fugue, menuet and toccata - but, of course, not sounding anything like Bach really! With either composer in mind, Angela Hewitt is known for delving deep into a composer's life and music to emerge with the purest, most representative essence of each work. Accordingly, her readings in general stay true to the score and intent of the composer and are a good reference point with minimal "outside influences."

Her style is well suited to Ravel's often delicate, imagery-rich music with her lovely phrasing, feathery touch, and ability to achieve the beautiful tonal colorations so characteristic of French music of this period. As Ravel once said about French music, "it is always meant to be beautiful," and Angela Hewitt sure can create beauty in this music. Her Sonatine, Jeaux D'eau, Ondine and Miroirs all are conveyed with an airy finesse, nuanced lyricism and feminine touch that can make Ravel sound so enchanting. Never a harsh note is heard. Yet, she can create a strong sense of drama and intrigue when needed in works like the early Serenade Grotesque or the highly intelligent Valses Nobles. She excels in drawing out the poinant lyricism of Ravel's more introspective works like the Pavane or Menuet d'Haydn. This is a very fresh, inspiring set that critics have taken note. This 2001 set received very high marks from both Gramophone and Penguin who herald Hewitt as having achieved status among the great pianists capable of revealing the fullness of Ravel. Pretty good for a so-called "Bach specialist."

As many know, one of Ravel's most significant and famous piano works is 'Gaspard de la nuit' which is something of a top pianist's 'right-of-passage' due to the immense virtuoisity required. One of the most electrifying (live) performances of Gaspard was by Martha Argerich (EMI). Comparing these two pianist's Gaspard reveals their very different understanding of Ravel and shows Miss Hewitt's approach to Ravel more clearly by making the comparison. In the first movement (Ondine), the aquatic neverworld Argerich creates is fascinating, but seems to lose its hold towards the end and becomes more of a wild ride on the rapids due to Argerich's blazing tempos. Contrastingly, Hewitt maintains Ravel's magical imagery to the end through tone and control. Even though she plays the middle movement (le Gibet) quite fast, Martha does create the ominous moods Ravel sought ... but I find Hewitt's slower tempo and colorations better produces the desolate atmosphere of a stillness and death. In the last movement, Argerich's scarbo is indeed fully terrifying with her quicksilver virtuosity. But it seems Argerich's scarbo haughts its victim more through sheer power (created through speed and volume) versus the more subtle and insideous manner that Hewitt creates more through pure tonal coloration and nuances of tempo/dynamic. Both evoke an ominous atmosphere but in a different way. Certainly Hewitt's scarbo is more 'tame' but perhaps more stealthy and cunning than Argerich's scarbo. I think imaginations like these was what Ravel was trying to create in this piece.

The more I listen to Hewitt's works, the more I appreciate this pianists spirit, range of repertoire and ability to create tonal beauty in anything she sets her hands to on the piano. The sound quality is exellent as are the 14 pages of detailed program notes - which include the full text of literary work, "Gaspard de la nuit" - which can help one understand more fully this strange "tone poem" of Ravel. Ravel's piano music was a very pleasing revelation to me this year, and I consider this two-CD set one of the treasures in my collection.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Feel and space, 6 Aug 2007
By Paul Callick (manchester) - See all my reviews
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I agree with what's written below. Something else, too: I find this increasingly a beautiful recording, in the way it gives space to breathe for Ravel's own music. Some of the recordings by other pianists seem to smother Ravel (and Debussy too) in a wash of sustain and highly-felt emphases. Hewitt is wonderful in her delicacy of playing, giving a precise frame for the music, but without forcing the listener towards the evocation of feel. So there's a lovely sense of the astonishing structures of Ravel's music here, as well as the spaces inside it.
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