Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937)
5/5. Composers
Friday 25 February 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Repeated: Friday 4 March 2005 0:00-1:00 (Radio 3)
Donald Macleod looks at Ravel in the context of his contemporaries, from those who influenced him - Chabrier, Debussy and Faure - to those who looked to him for inspiration.
Playlist
Sérénade grotesque
Paul Crossley (piano)
CRD 3384 tr 11
A la manière de Borodine, Chabrier
Roger Muraro (piano)
Accord 476 0941 CD 2 tr 11
Berceuse for Gabriel Fauré
Regis Pasquier (vln)/ Brigitte Engerer (piano)
HMC 901364 tr 8
Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Dawn Upshaw (soprano)/ Carmit Zori, Robert Rinehart (violins)/ Sarah Clarke (viola)/ Eric Bartlett (cello)/ Fenwick Smith, Laura Gilbert (flutes)/ Thomas Hill, Mitchell Weiss (clarinets)/ Randall Hodgkinson (piano
Elektra Nonesuch 7559 79262 2 tr 2-4
Sonata for violin and piano
Jean-Jacques Kantorow (vln)/ Jacques Rouvier (piano)
Erato ECD 71569 tr 3
Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
Jose van Dam (baritone)/ BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Pierre Boulez (cond)
Sony Classical SMK 64 107 tr 7-9