Maurice Ravel: Lieder (CD)

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Lieder

Julius Drake, Gerald Finley

CD

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EUR 19,99*

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Histoires naturelles; Ronsard a son ame; Don Quichotte a Dulcinee; Un grand sommeil noir; Les grands vents venus d'outre-mer; Sur l'Herbe; Chanson francaise; Chanson italienne; Chanson hebraique; Chanson ecossaise; Noel des jouets; Deux epigrammes de Clement Marot; Cinq melodies populaires grecques; Deux melodies hebraïques

Künstler: Gerald Finley, Julius Drake
Label: Hyperion, DDD, 2008
Bestellnummer: 8766974
Erscheinungstermin: 26.6.2009

Product-Information:

The award-winning partnership of Gerald Finley and Julius Drake continue their musical explorations with this beautiful and thought-provoking disc. Gerald Finley’s lustrous tones, extraordinary gift for characterisation, and direct, unaffected utterance make him an ideal and revelatory performer of Ravel’s songs.

These works, somewhat under-appreciated in the composer’s oeuvre, demonstrate the endless variety and vast emotional scope of Ravel’s musical sphere. Charming folk-song settings contrast with the almost surrealist world of Histoires naturelles, which caused outrage at its first performance. Yet this cycle contains some of Ravel’s most dreamily beautiful music: the still, crystalline ‘music of silence’ created in Le martin-pêcheur. In the words of Roger Nichols, who provides the fascinating booklet notes, ‘From the sepulchral gloom of Un grand sommeil noir to the final exclamation ‘Je bois / À la joie’ …, Ravel’s songs embrace a whole world’.

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'It's a beautiful disc that startles in ways you don't always expect … The poetic restraint of Finley's singing and Drake's playing are spellbinding. The settings of Marot and Ronsard are ravishingly done, and the mixture of irony and sadness they bring to Histoires Naturelles is exceptional' (The Guardian)

'These are for the most part works of cool restraint, with passion hidden beneath a jewelled surface, and Finley's wonderfully flexible voice achieves maximum effect with minimal means … Drake's playing is a marvel of delicacy and almost gamelan-like sonorities' (The Daily Telegraph)

'It feels inadequate just to describe this enchanting new collection from Gerald Finley and Julius Drake as the best modern recital devoted to the wonderfully varied world of Ravel's songs … Julius Drake's warm-toned playing is, as ever, a perfect foil, all captured in Hyperion's wonderful sound. Riches indeed' (BBC Music Magazine)

'Ravel's sense of colour and atmosphere is infallible … Finley's mellifluous, malleable baritone is an ideal match for this repertoire, with lines eloquently floated, nuances subtly voiced and character sensitively defined. This is a beguiling programme, beautifully performed' (Gramophone)

Tracklisting

Disk 1 von 1 (CD)

1 Histoires naturelles, song cycle for voice & piano: Le paon
2 Histoires naturelles, song cycle for voice & piano: Le grillon
3 Histoires naturelles, song cycle for voice & piano: Le cygne
4 Histoires naturelles, song cycle for voice & piano: La pintade
5 Un grand sommeil noir, song for voice & piano
6 Les Grands Vents venus d'Outre-mer, for voice & piano
7 Sur l'herbe, for voice & piano
8 Chants populaires, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra): Chanson italienne