Rare French Piano Music

 
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BOULEZ / DEBUSSY / MESSIAEN / RAVEL
Rare French Piano Music
Ralph van Raat (piano)

[ Naxos / CD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 20 May 2020

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This album of French piano rarities features seldom-heard and recently discovered works by composers who had an influence on Pierre Boulez, as well as the premiere recording of Boulez's Prélude, Toccata et Scherzo. This large-scale early work looks back on virtuosic Romantic music, while at the same time exploring the new compositional styles that Boulez would subsequently embrace. Among the rarities is a posthumously discovered piano study by Debussy, a reconstructed birdsong work by Messiaen, and a tiny masterpiece by Ravel found in a notebook.

Tracks:

Debussy:
Étude retrouvée
Les soirs illuminés par l'ardeur du charbon (Evenings Lit by the Burning Coals)

Messiaen:
Morceau de lecture à vue (Sight Reading Exercise)
Des canyons aux étoiles … (excerpts)
La Fauvette Passerinette (The Subalpine Warbler)

Boulez:
Prelude, Toccata et Scherzo
12 Notations
Une page d'éphéméride (A Calendar Page)

Ravel:
Menuet in C-Sharp Minor