Notes and Editorial Reviews
Alice Ader’s first Debussy disc (Erato) won all the awards in the specialist press on its release twenty years ago and is still regarded as an unequalled benchmark. Now this unconventional pianist at last unveils her recording of the complete Ravel piano works. And what better moment could there be than Debussy Year to present these two hours or so of music in dialogue, en Miroirs as it were, with the œuvre of ‘Claude de France’? Ravel, the hot-blooded Swiss watchmaker, the discreet Lisztian, the mediocre pianist who made such extreme demands on his colleagues, the man of so many sublime paradoxes, deserves only the finest interpreters: those who take the time to explore his deepest recesses. Alice Ader, light-years away from the flashy
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gestures often encountered in this music, takes us to the very heart of one of the most secretive composers of his time.
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Works on This Recording
1.
Sonatine for Piano by Maurice Ravel
Performer:
Alice Ader (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1903-1905; France
2.
Sérénade grotesque by Maurice Ravel
Performer:
Alice Ader (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1893; France
3.
Miroirs by Maurice Ravel
Performer:
Alice Ader (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1904-1905; France
5.
Jeux d'eau by Maurice Ravel
Performer:
Alice Ader (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1901; France
6.
Gaspard de la nuit by Maurice Ravel
Performer:
Alice Ader (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1908; France
10.
Menuet antique by Maurice Ravel
Performer:
Alice Ader (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1895; France
11.
Le tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel
Performer:
Alice Ader (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1914-1917; orch. 191; France
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