Les Siècles & François-Xavier Roth – Ravel: La Valse – Mussorgsky: Les Tableaux d’une exposition (Orch. Ravel) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:58 minutes | 407 MB | Genre: Classical
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Toscanini regarded this orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition as a genuine treatise on instrumentation, on a par with that of Berlioz: scored for the same instrumental forces as La Valse, Ravel’s version quickly established itself ahead of all the many competing orchestrations of Mussorgsky’s piano suite! In François-Xavier Roth’s view, La Valse and the Pictures together represent the peak of the composer’s output for the symphony orchestra of his time – that is to say, as the musicians of Les Siècles reconstruct it for us today. What a joy to get back to the original colours of this music!
Tracklist:
1. Tableaux d’une exposition: Promenade I (Orch. Maurice Ravel) (Live) (1:34)
2. Tableaux d’une exposition: 1. Gnomus (Orch. Maurice Ravel) (Live) (2:29)
3. Tableaux d’une exposition: Promenade II (Orch. Maurice Ravel) (Live) (0:58)
4. Tableaux d’une exposition: 2. Il vecchio castello (Orch. Maurice Ravel) (Live) (4:20)
5. Tableaux d’une exposition: Promenade III (Orch. Maurice Ravel) (Live) (0:32)
6. Tableaux d’une exposition: 3. Tuileries [Dispute d’enfants après jeux] (Orch. Maurice Ravel) (Live) (1:10)
7. Tableaux d’une exposition: 4. Bydło (Orch. Maurice Ravel) (Live) (3:08)
8. Tableaux d’une exposition: Promenade IV (Orch. Maurice Ravel) (Live) (0:40)
9. Tableaux d’une exposition: 5. Ballet des poussins dans leurs coques (Orch. Maurice Ravel) (Live) (1:17)
10. Tableaux d’une exposition: 6. Samuel Goldenberg et Schmuÿle (Orch. Maurice Ravel) (Live) (2:16)
11. Tableaux d’une exposition: 7. Limoge, le Marché [la grande nouvelle] (Orch. Maurice Ravel) (Live) (1:20)
12. Tableaux d’une exposition: 8. Catacombæ [Sepulcrum Romanum] (Orch. Maurice Ravel) (Live) (1:45)
13. Tableaux d’une exposition: Cum mortuis in lingua mortua (Orch. Maurice Ravel) (Live) (1:54)
14. Tableaux d’une exposition: 9. La Cabane sur des pattes de poule. Baba-Yaga (Orch. Maurice Ravel) (Live) (3:22)
15. Tableaux d’une exposition: 10. La Grande Porte de Kiev (Orch. Maurice Ravel) (Live) (5:05)
16. La Valse, poème chorégraphique, M. 72 (Live) (12:18)
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