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Composer:
Maurice Ravel

Artist(s):
Anne Sofie von Otter
Alison Hagley

Conductor:
Pierre Boulez

Background: Pierre Boulez and Anne Sofie von Otter collaborate on this beautiful disc with exceptional works by the most important composers of the Impressionist movement in classical music. The six-movement piano suite Le Tombeau de Couperin was a tribute to the whole of 18th Century French music.

Ravel wrote it between 1914 and 1917, during which time he was serving as a lorry driver near the front, and each of the movements is dedicated to a friend killed in the fighting.

The exotic formed a notable element of Ravel's musical taste and consequently his well-known song cycle Shéhérazade with Debussyan textures and harmonies is gilded with an oriental glitter - a grateful task for a singer like Anne Sofie von Otter who can show all the colorful shades of her voice.

CATALOGUE NR: 4716142
RECORD LABEL: Deutsche Grammophon
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 12-Apr-2004

COMPOSER: Maurice Ravel  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Sheherazade - Sur des Vers de Tristan Klingsor : Asie / La flute enchantee / L'indifferent. Le tombeau de Couperin - orchestral version : Prelude / Forlane / Menuet / Rigaudon. Pavane pour une infante defunte - orchestral version. Menuet antique - for orchestra (Ravel). Danses for Harp and Orchestra : Danse sacree / Danse profane. 5 Poemes de Charles Baudelaire : Le jet d'eau. Trois ballades de François Villon : Ballade de Villon a s'amye / Ballade que Villon fait a la requeste de sa mere pour prier Nostre Dame / Ballade des femmes de Paris (Debussy).
ORCHESTRA: Cleveland Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Pierre Boulez
ARTISTS: Anne Sofie von Otter   Alison Hagley   Lisa Wellbaum  

- Jul-2004 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Jun-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Boulez's sharp ear Von Otter's beguiling voice combine to satisfying effect' - Penguin Guide 3 star 'an evocative account'

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