Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano Bertrand Chamayou

• Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Complete Works For Solo Piano:
• 1Ravel: Jeux d'eau, M. 3005:48
• 2Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 1905:47
• 3Ravel: À la manière de... Chabrier, M. 6301:53
• 4Ravel: Miroirs, M. 43: I. Noctuelles04:41
• 5Ravel: Miroirs, M. 43: II. Oiseaux tristes03:57
• 6Ravel: Miroirs, M. 43: III. Une barque sur l’océan07:00
• 7Ravel: Miroirs, M. 43: IV. Alborada del gracioso06:12
• 8Ravel: Miroirs, M. 43: V. La Vallée des cloches06:06
• 9Ravel: Menuet antique, M. 705:39
• 10Ravel: Sérénade grotesque, M. 503:23
• 11Ravel: À la manière de... Borodine, M. 6301:45
• 12Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 6115:40
• Alfredo Casella (1883-1947):
• 13Casella: À la manière de... Ravel, Op.17b, Book 2: No. 4 Almanzor ou le mariage d'Adela?de03:51
• Maurice Ravel (1875-1937):
• 14Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: I. Ondine06:28
• 15Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: II. Le Gibet06:46
• 16Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: III. Scarbo09:38
• 17Ravel: Menuet in C-Sharp Minor, M. 4200:47
• 18Ravel: Sonatine, M. 40: I. Modéré04:06
• 19Ravel: Sonatine, M. 40: II. Mouvement de menuet02:57
• 20Ravel: Sonatine, M. 40: III. Animé03:51
• 21Ravel: Prelude in A Minor, M. 6501:19
• 22Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: I. Pr?lude03:06
• 23Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: II. Fugue03:31
• 24Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: III. Forlane05:37
• 25Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: IV. Rigaudon03:06
• 26Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: V. Menuet04:51
• 27Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: VI. Toccata03:52
• 28Ravel: Menuet sur le nom de Haydn, M. 5801:42
• Alexander Ziloti (1863-1945):
• 29Ziloti: Kaddisch, Mélodie hébraïque in C Minor04:32
• Total Runtime02:17:51

Info for Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano

For his second release on Erato, Bertrand Chamayou is dedicating two CDs to the complete solo piano music of Ravel. “My style of playing and the way I imagine sound can be largely attributed to Ravel,” says Chamayou. “Recording his music is not just a return to my roots, but also a natural stage in my development.” This new set makes a fitting successor to Chamayou’s debut disc for the label: released in early 2014 and devoted to music by Schubert, it was praised by the Sunday Times as an “affecting, beautifully performed disc,” by Pianist magazine for “playing of intellectual conviction paired with a singing tone of heart-breaking beauty,” and by the Telegraph for “playing that radiates a generous Schubertian spirit, thoughtful in its shaping, structurally cohesive, absorbing in a spectrum of pianism that draws you into the music’s expressive heart.”

Schubert was one of the composers who inspired Ravel – notably in Valses nobles et sentimentales – as was Franz Liszt, whose transcriptions of Schubert songs were a feature of Chamayou’s debut album. His influence is evident in Ravel’s dauntingly virtuosic Gaspard de la nuit and glittering Jeux d'eau. The latter was the first ‘modern’ score that Chamayou saw as a child, and he began to play it at the age of eleven or twelve. The pianist even has a connection to the composer through one of his teachers at the Paris Conservatoire, Jean François Hessier; he was a student of Vlado Perlemuter who was mentored by Ravel himself. “I admire the purity and simplicity of Perlemuter’s approach, which seems in keeping with the famous – and probably exaggerated – statement attributed to the composer: ‘I don’t expect people to interpret me, just to play me.’”

Bertrand Chamayou, piano

Bertrand Chamayou
has established himself as a personality of the highest level on the international music scene, performing in venues like the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, New York’s Lincoln Center, the Herkulessaal, Musikfest Bremen, Wigmore Hall, New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, Lucerne Festival, Rheingau Festival, Rotterdam Gergiev Festival, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, and orchestras like the Orchestre de Paris, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammer Philharmonie, the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, the Hessischer Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester, the WDR Sinfonie Orchester, the SWR Sinfonie Orchester, the Orchestre National de France, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec. Bertrand has worked with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Leonard Slatkin, Neville Marriner, Semyon Bychkov, Michel Plasson, Louis Langrée, Fabien Gabel, Joshua Weilerstein, Jérémie Rhorer, Stéphane Denève, Ludovic Morlot, Andris Nelson.

In the 2013/14 season, Bertrand will debut with the Deutsche Sinfonie Orchester at Berlin’s Philharmonie with Stéphane Denève the NDR Sinfonie Orchester in Hamburg with Semyon Bychkov and the Oregon Symphony Orchestra, ; he will return with the Hessischer Rundfunk Orchester in Frankfurt’s Alte Oper, will tour with Ludovic Morlot and his Orchestre de la Monnaie de Bruxelles, will return for an evening recital at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and be given a residency with the Orchetsre National de Bordeaux in their brand new auditorium including several orchestral performances, recitals and a tour. He will also tour in the United-States and play a recital at New York’s Lincoln Center.

Bertrand Chamayou released a very successful César Franck CD in March 2010, which was awarded several prizes including Gramophone’s Editor’s Choice. In 2008 his Mendelssohn CD had also been a wide success. He had released in 2006 a very successful Liszt live CD (Transcendental Etudes) for Sony Classical. In 2011, he celebrated Liszt’ 200th anniversary recording the complete Years of Pilgrimage for Naive which he also performed in several venues throughout the world. The album received raving reviews worldwide and got several prizes including Gramophone ‘s Choice. He played the same year with Pierre Boulez and the Orchestre de Paris at Salle Pleyel,. In February 2011, he won a Victoire de la Musique as “Soloist of the Year”.

At 20, Bertrand was a prize-winner at the international Long- Thibaud competition . Born in 1981, Bertrand was very soon remarked by pianist Jean-François Heisser who was later to become his professor at Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique. Bertrand Chamayou completed his training then with Maria Curcio in London and was given precious advice by such great masters as Leon Fleisher, Dimitri Bashkirov and Murray Perahia.

Betrrand has been a regular chamber music player with partners including Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Quatuor Ebène, Antoine Tamestit, Baiba Skride, Sol Gabetta, Nicolas Baldeyrou. He now regularly performs throughout the world with Sol Gabetta.

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