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
4.
Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn by Maurice Ravel
Performer:
Alice Ader (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1909; 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
7.
A la manière de Chabrier by Maurice Ravel
Performer:
Alice Ader (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1913; France
8.
A la manière de Borodine by Maurice Ravel
Performer:
Alice Ader (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1913; France
9.
Valses nobles et sentimentales by Maurice Ravel
Performer:
Alice Ader (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1911; 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
12.
Prélude for Piano in A minor by Maurice Ravel
Performer:
Alice Ader (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1913; France
Sound Samples
Gaspard de la nuit: I. Ondine
Gaspard de la nuit: II. Le gibet
Gaspard de la nuit: III. Scarbo
Pavane pour une infante defunte (version for piano)
Miroirs: No. 1. Noctuelles
Miroirs: No. 2. Oiseaux tristes
Miroirs: No. 3. Une barque sur l'ocean
Miroirs: No. 4. Alborada del gracioso
Miroirs: No. 5. La vallee des cloches
Le tombeau de Couperin (version for piano): No. 1. Prelude
Le tombeau de Couperin (version for piano): No. 2. Fugue
Le tombeau de Couperin (version for piano): No. 3. Forlane
Le tombeau de Couperin (version for piano): No. 4. Rigaudon
Le tombeau de Couperin (version for piano): No. 5. Menuet
Le tombeau de Couperin (version for piano): No. 6. Toccata
Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn
Sonatine: II. Mouvement de Menuet
Valses nobles et sentimentales (version for piano): I. Modere, tres franc
Valses nobles et sentimentales (version for piano): II. Assez lent, avec une expression intense
Valses nobles et sentimentales (version for piano): III. Modere
Valses nobles et sentimentales (version for piano): IV. Assez anime
Valses nobles et sentimentales (version for piano): V. Presque lent, dans un sentiment intime
Valses nobles et sentimentales (version for piano): VI. Vif
Valses nobles et sentimentales (version for piano): VII. Moins vif
Valses nobles et sentimentales (version for piano): VIII. Epilogue: Lent
Menuet antique (version for piano)
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