CD Import

Complete Piano Solo Works : Gordon Fergus-Thompson (2CD)

Ravel (1875-1937)

User Review :4.0
(1)

Item Details

Genre
:
Catalogue Number
:
4829041
Number of Discs
:
2
:
Australia
Format
:
CD
Other
:
Import

Product Description

Recorded for the ASV label in 1990, this collection of Ravels piano music has never previously been released complete. Now reissued for the first time in more than a decade, this set presents not the kind of coolly objective view of the fastidious composer-craftsman that modern recordings have accustomed us to, but more of a poet in sound and in touch with his Basque origins. The piano was for Ravel the principal medium of musical thought, and his approach to the instrument was at once lavish and precise. Lisztian virtuosity is entwined with an antique spirit of French dance in both the darkly Impressionist Gaspard de la nuit and the much gentler strains of the Valses nobles et sentimentales. Likewise Jeux deau takes its inspiration from a Lisztian template while Le tombeau de Couperin pays deeply affectionate tribute both to friends killed in the First World War and to an imagined Eden of formal manners and gentility, presumed lost forever. Although his repertoire ranges from Bach to Webern, Gordon Fergus-Thompson has won particular renown as a Franco-Russian specialist in command of the most technically challenging repertoire by the likes of Balakirev. Following the reissue of his complete Scriabin recordings, and his renowned Debussy, Eloquence brings back another pair of albums which find the pianist in his element: rhythmically free yet in complete control of Ravels fastidiously exacting scores; timbrally refined yet abandoned to the Viennese excess of La valse as well as the blurred, dream-like moods of the Miroirs.

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive Evaluation

★
★
★
★
☆

4.0

★
★
★
★
★
 
0
★
★
★
★
☆
 
1
★
★
★
☆
☆
 
0
★
★
☆
☆
☆
 
0
★
☆
☆
☆
☆
 
0
★
★
★
★
☆
トンプソンのラヴェル録音全曲を聴けるのは...

投稿日:2019/07/21 (日)

トンプソンのラヴェル録音全曲を聴けるのはこのCDが初めてのようで。ずっと気になっていた録音、今回発売となり嬉しい限りです。 トンプソンのドビュッシーの録音は本当に感動もので、何度も聴いた今でも、音色が体に染み渡る感覚と共に美しさを堪能しています。 さてそんなトンプソンのラヴェル。期待を裏切らない美しさでした。しかし、例えばクープランの墓のトッカータはゆっくりめの演奏であるため、超絶技巧的な演奏を求める方は、ラヴェルのCDをレビューされている方がおっしゃるようにオズボーンやデュモンの演奏をオススメします。 トンプソンのラヴェルは、この2人とはまた違った美しさを聴かせてくれます。是非聴いてみて下さい。

こむこ さん | 兵庫県 | 不明

1

Recommend Items