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Ravel: The Complete Works with Piano - Poizat, Menezes

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Stereo  (6 hours 38 minutes)

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Maurice Ravel: The Complete Works with Piano

François-Xavier Poizat (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Simone Menezes (conductor)


François-Xavier Poizat is recording Maurice Ravel's complete works with piano for the first time, to mark the composer's 150th birthday. The programme covers not only the solo pieces and concertos, but also the chamber music, the four hands pieces and the sublime corpus of melodies.

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Works (48)

• Maurice Ravel: Ballade de la reine morte d'aimer, M. 4
• Maurice Ravel: Berceuse, M. 74 'sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré'
• Maurice Ravel: Chanson du rouet, M. 15
• Maurice Ravel: Chansons madécasses, M. 78
• Maurice Ravel: Chanson écossaise, M. A12
• Maurice Ravel: Chants populaires, M. A17
• Maurice Ravel: Deux épigrammes de Clément Marot
• Maurice Ravel: Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
• Maurice Ravel: Five Greek Songs
• Maurice Ravel: Frontispice, M. 70
• Maurice Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55
• Maurice Ravel: Histoires naturelles (5)
• Maurice Ravel: Jeux d'eau, M. 30
• Maurice Ravel: La valse, M. 72 for Piano
• Maurice Ravel: Les grands vents venus d'outre-mer, M. 48
• Maurice Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68 for Piano
• Maurice Ravel: Ma mère l'oye, M. 60 Suite for Piano Duet
• Maurice Ravel: Manteau de fleurs, M. 39
• Maurice Ravel: Menuet antique, M. 7 for Piano
• Maurice Ravel: Menuet in C sharp minor
• Maurice Ravel: Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn, M. 58
• Maurice Ravel: Miroirs (5), M. 43 for Piano
• Maurice Ravel: Mélodies hébraïques (2), M.A 22 No. 1 Kaddisch
• Maurice Ravel: Mélodies hébraïques (2), M.A 22 No. 2 L'énigme éternelle
• Maurice Ravel: Noël des jouets, M. 47
• Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19 for Piano
• Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in D major, M. 82 (Left Hand)
• Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major, M. 83
• Maurice Ravel: Piano Sonatine, M. 40
• Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor, M. 67
• Maurice Ravel: Prélude, M. 65
• Maurice Ravel: Ronsard à son âme, M. 75
• Maurice Ravel: Rêves, M. 79
• Maurice Ravel: Sainte, M. 9
• Maurice Ravel: Si morne !, M. 16
• Maurice Ravel: Sites auriculaires, M. 13
• Maurice Ravel: Sur l’herbe, M. 53
• Maurice Ravel: Sérénade grotesque, M. 5
• Maurice Ravel: Tripatos, M. A13
• Maurice Ravel: Trois poemes de Stephane Mallarmé, M. 64
• Maurice Ravel: Tzigane, M. 76 for Violin and Piano 'Rhapsodie de concert'
• Maurice Ravel: Un grand sommeil noir, M. 6
• Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61 for Piano
• Maurice Ravel: Violin Sonata in A minor, M. 12 'Posthumous sonata'
• Maurice Ravel: Violin Sonata in G major, M. 77
• Maurice Ravel: Vocalise-étude en forme de Habanera, M. 51
• Maurice Ravel: À la manière de Borodine, M. 63 No. 1
• Maurice Ravel: À la manière de Chabrier, M. 63 No. 2

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