Ravel

Featuring

Clément Lefebvre
Maurice Ravel

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Compositional Technique

Ravel's compositions are characterized by clarity, lightness, and meticulous refinement, where he chisels and redraws his musical material.

Composition History

The Pavane pour une infante défunte was commissioned by Princess Edmond de Polignac and achieved immediate success, though Ravel himself only accorded it relative value.

Composition History

Ravel composed Le Tombeau de Couperin during World War I as a tribute to Couperin and other Baroque harpsichordists, with each of its six dances dedicated to a friend who died at the front.

Instruments

Clément Lefebvre, the performer on this album, plays a Yamaha CFX piano.

Recording & Production

This album was recorded from April 27 to 30 at the Élisabéthain Theater of Château d'Hardelot, located in the Pas-de-Calais Department.

Composer Biography

Maurice Ravel, the composer, left the Paris Conservatoire at age twenty without winning a prize, despite being an admirer of Emmanuel Chabrier and Erik Satie.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Ravel developed his musical language by drawing inspiration from 18th-century French music, which he called 'the eighteenth century of my dreams,' stripping it of 19th-century romanticism.