Ravel: Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol. 1

Featuring

Oleg Marshev
Maurice Ravel

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Recording & Production

This album is the first volume of Oleg Marshev's new Ravel survey and includes the first-ever piano recording of one of the fugues Ravel wrote for the Prix de Rome competition.

Composer Biography

Ravel took pride in his Basque heritage, inherited from his mother, Marie Deluart, and was born in the Basque village of Ciboure.

Composition History

Ravel's earliest surviving work in any genre is the Sérénade grotesque, composed when he was a rebellious student at the Paris Conservatoire in 1892-93.

Performer Biography

Oleg Marshev, the pianist on this recording, trained at the Gnessin State Musical College and the Moscow Conservatoire, and is considered among the fifth generation of Russian pianism since Liszt.

Critical Reception

Oleg Marshev's recordings have received high praise, with BBC Music Magazine calling him 'a phenomenon' for his Shostakovich concertos.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Ravel, like Beethoven and Stravinsky, considered composition to be a pianistic endeavor, believing that new harmonies could not be invented without a piano.