Boulez, Debussy, Messiaen & Ravel: French Piano Rarities
Ralph van Raat (piano)
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
Van Raat styles his excellent sequence as “rarities”, but it’s no idle sampling. Centrepiece is the premiere recording of an early, withheld and rather grand Boulez work, his Prélude, Toccata...
Boulez, Debussy, Messiaen & Ravel: French Piano Rarities
Ralph van Raat (piano)
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Awards:
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
Van Raat styles his excellent sequence as “rarities”, but it’s no idle sampling. Centrepiece is the premiere recording of an early, withheld and rather grand Boulez work, his Prélude, Toccata...
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This album of French piano rarities features seldom-heard and recently discovered works by composers who had an influence on Pierre Boulez, as well as the premiere recording of Boulez’s Prélude, Toccata et Scherzo. This large-scale early work looks back on virtuosic Romantic music, while at the same time exploring the new compositional styles that Boulez would subsequently embrace. Among the rarities is a posthumously discovered piano study by Debussy, a reconstructed birdsong work by Messiaen, and a tiny masterpiece by Ravel found in a notebook.
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- Ralph van Raat (piano)
- Ralph van Raat (piano)
- Ralph van Raat (piano)
- Ralph van Raat (piano)
- Ralph van Raat (piano)
- Ralph van Raat (piano)
- Ralph van Raat (piano)
- Ralph van Raat (piano)
- Ralph van Raat (piano)
Awards and reviews
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The Times Records of the Year2020
7th June 2020
Van Raat styles his excellent sequence as “rarities”, but it’s no idle sampling. Centrepiece is the premiere recording of an early, withheld and rather grand Boulez work, his Prélude, Toccata et Scherzo (1944), cast in a far more traditional, indeed splashy and rhetorical, idiom than anything for which he would become known.
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