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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

Jeux d'eau
Track length4:54
No. 1. Noctuelles
Track length4:33
No. 2. Oiseaux tristes
Track length4:08
No. 3. Une barque sur l'ocean
Track length7:05
No. 4. Alborada del gracioso
Track length6:23
No. 5. La vallee des cloches
Track length5:04
A la maniere de Chabrier
Track length1:52
A la maniere de Borodine
Track length1:27
Pavane pour une infante defunte (version for piano)
Track length5:40
Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn
Track length1:45
I. Modere
Track length3:56
II. Mouvement de Menuet
Track length3:05
III. Anime
Track length3:37
No. 1. Prelude
Track length2:57
No. 2. Fugue
Track length3:15
No. 3. Forlane
Track length5:42
No. 4. Rigaudon
Track length3:08
No. 5. Menuet
Track length4:36
No. 6. Toccata
Track length3:44
Prelude
Track length1:28
I. Danse de Daphnis
Track length2:24
II. Nocturne - Interlude - Danse Guerriere
Track length10:55
III. Scene de Daphnis et de Chloe
Track length5:52
I. Ondine
Track length6:30
II. Le gibet
Track length5:44
III. Scarbo
Track length9:11
Menuet antique (version for piano)
Track length6:01
I. Modere, tres franc
Track length1:11
II. Assez lent, avec une expression intense
Track length2:00
III. Modere
Track length1:19
IV. Assez anime
Track length1:04
V. Presque lent, dans un sentiment intime
Track length1:22
VI. Vif
Track length0:39
VII. Moins vif
Track length2:45
VIII. Epilogue: Lent
Track length3:46

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.
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