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Music from Marlboro - Ravel: Piano Trio / Sonata for Violin & Cello

9/6/2011, 8 Tracks, 44:44

Featuring

  • Jaime Laredo
  • Jeffrey Solow
  • Ruth Laredo
  • Leslie Parnas
  • Maurice Ravel

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Performer Biography

The Marlboro Music Festival, founded in 1951, is a professional center for advanced musical studies in Vermont where young professionals and master artists rehearse and perform together.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Ravel's Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano was completed in haste in August 1914, spurred by the outbreak of World War I in France.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

The Sonata for Violin and Cello, dedicated to the memory of Claude Debussy, marked a turning point in Ravel's career, emphasizing economy of means and melody over harmonic richness.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Despite being frequently linked with Debussy as an impressionist, Ravel is considered more of a post-impressionist and neoclassicist due to his preference for clearly organized structures.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Between 1960 and 1973, the renowned cellist Pablo Casals returned for thirteen summers to conduct the Marlboro Festival Orchestra and recorded over twenty works there for Columbia Records.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This album was produced by Andrew Kazdin, with tracks 1-4 recorded in May 1973 and tracks 5-8 recorded in November 1974 at Columbia 30th Street Studio in NYC.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Maurice Ravel, the composer, believed that great music must come from the heart, not just technique and brains.

Source: Booklet

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