Ravel: Complete Solo Piano Works
Florian Uhlig (piano)
Technically, this is playing of the highest order. Florian Uhlig has fingers to die for, and one of the advantages of this is that he has the confidence to use the sustaining pedal only when...
Ravel: Complete Solo Piano Works
Florian Uhlig (piano)
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Technically, this is playing of the highest order. Florian Uhlig has fingers to die for, and one of the advantages of this is that he has the confidence to use the sustaining pedal only when...
About
Just last year, Florian Uhlig‘s recording of French Piano Concertos created a sensation. Though originally conceived as a respite from his ongoing project to record the first, truly complete edition of the piano works of Robert Schumann, Florian Uhlig’s excursion into late 19th and 20th century French repertoire demonstrated that he has a knack for the brilliant, urbane sound-world of the great French composers.
This year, Uhlig continues his explorations in this new recording of the piano works of Maurice Ravel. Ravel's piano music is perhaps the most concentrated corpus of music ever produced by a major composer. Despite their modest dimensions (the complete oeuvre can be performed in just over 2 hours), each composition sets out to achieve something new, shaping the genre to achieve works of consummate originality. And no one surpasses Florian Uhlig in delivering performances that allow all the fascinating, ecstatic virtuosity of this music to shine.
Contents and tracklist
- Florian Uhlig
- Recorded: 8-10 June 2012
- Recording Venue: SWR Studio Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Florian Uhlig
- Recorded: 5-8 November 2012
- Recording Venue: SWR Studio Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Florian Uhlig
- Recorded: 8-10 June 2012
- Recording Venue: SWR Studio Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Florian Uhlig
- Recorded: 8-10 June 2012
- Recording Venue: SWR Studio Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Florian Uhlig
- Recorded: 8-10 June 2012
- Recording Venue: SWR Studio Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Florian Uhlig
- Recorded: 8-10 June 2012
- Recording Venue: SWR Studio Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Florian Uhlig
- Recorded: 5-8 November 2012
- Recording Venue: SWR Studio Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Florian Uhlig
- Recorded: 8-10 June 2012
- Recording Venue: SWR Studio Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Florian Uhlig
- Recorded: 5-8 November 2012
- Recording Venue: SWR Studio Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Florian Uhlig
- Recorded: 8-10 June 2012
- Recording Venue: SWR Studio Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Florian Uhlig
- Recorded: 20-23 November 2013
- Recording Venue: SWR Studio Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Florian Uhlig
- Recorded: 20-23 November 2013
- Recording Venue: SWR Studio Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Florian Uhlig
- Recorded: 20-23 November 2013
- Recording Venue: SWR Studio Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Florian Uhlig
- Recorded: 5-8 November 2012
- Recording Venue: SWR Studio Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Florian Uhlig
- Recorded: 5-8 November 2012
- Recording Venue: SWR Studio Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Florian Uhlig
- Recorded: 8-10 June 2012
- Recording Venue: SWR Studio Kaiserslautern, Germany
Awards and reviews
December 2014
Technically, this is playing of the highest order. Florian Uhlig has fingers to die for, and one of the advantages of this is that he has the confidence to use the sustaining pedal only when it's really called for. Time and again, I was stunned by the clarity and brilliance of passages that too often pass in a hopeful mush.
