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Ravel: Piano Concertos

Nelson Goerner; Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo; Kazuki Yamada

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Format: CD

Cat No: ALPHA1162

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Release Date:  19 September 2025

Label:  Outhere / Alpha

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  3701624511626

Genres:  Classical  Orchestral  

Composer/Series:  Ravel

  • Description

    Nelson Goerner has always dreamed of recording these two masterpieces of the concerto repertoire. With Kazuki Yamada, he has found the ideal partner to approach Ravel's two piano concertos with the sensitivity and poetry for which he is universally renowned. The two works, composed at the same time and both performed for the first time in 1932, are nevertheless very different: premiered in Vienna, the Concerto for the Left Hand was commissioned by the pianist Paul Wittgenstein who had lost his right arm in 1914; premiered in Paris, the Concerto in G is renowned for its verve and its famous pianistic interpolations. Ravel had composed the Pavane pour une infante defunte, a famous miniature of exquisite nostalgia, some 33 years earlier. The programme is completed by the Valses nobles et sentimentales; Marguerite Long, who gave the first performance of the Concerto in G, saw these eight linked pieces as a "stylistic panorama of the waltz".