RAVEL: Violin Sonata No. 2 in G major, Sonata for Violin and Cello in A minor, Piano Trio in A minor

Featuring

Klara Flieder
Massimo Giuseppe Bianchi
Christophe Pantillon
Maurice Ravel

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Composer Biography

Ravel admired Igor Stravinsky, a composer known for treating every new work as a new project and 'forgetting' what came before.

Performer Biography

Christophe Pantillon, the cellist, co-founded the Aron Quartet, which is the Quartet-in-Residence of the Arnold Schönberg Center.

Compositional Technique

Ravel's Piano Trio features a second movement called 'Pantoum,' which follows a fixed poetic form borrowed from Malay poetry.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Ravel rejected the term 'Impressionist' for his music, stating his goal was representation rather than impression.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Ravel believed in the connections between the arts, drawing inspiration from figures like Mozart, Edgar Allan Poe, and paintings such as Manet's Olympia.

Performer Biography

Klara Flieder, the violinist on this album, is a professor of violin at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and has performed internationally as a soloist and chamber musician.