Ravel : Works for voice and piano
Featuring: French poetry and a trip around the world
Program notes
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Ravel’s birth, delve into this compilation of his most beautiful works for voice and piano, created especially for this occasion!
In his melodies, Ravel celebrates French poetry: he sets Jules Renard in his Histoires naturelles, Paul Morand in the Hispanic escape Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, and the verses of Clément Marot and Pierre de Ronsard. He takes us on a true sonic journey, from Spain to Italy via France and Scotland in his Chansons populaires and through Jewish cultures in the Deux mélodies hébraïques. These eclectically inspired songs are an opportunity to discover the full expressive range of the French composer’s work, his pronounced taste for experimentation, timbral interplay and harmonic daring: all elements that make Ravel one of the major voices of twentieth-century French music.
Courtesy of NAXOS Germany - www.naxos.de
