Tableaux
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MODEST MUSSORGSKY / MAURICE RAVEL / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Tableaux
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Joseph Swensen
[ Alpha Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 4 September 2026
This album centres on Ravel: Ravel the composer with Ma Mère l'Oye - originally a suite for piano four hands composed in 1910, orchestrated the following year to become a ballet… and Ravel the arranger with Mussorgsky's famous Pictures at an Exhibition, as well as his orchestration of Schumann's Carnival, an embryonic project begun in 1914 for the great Nijinsky, who would ultimately never dance it.
Only four excerpts were transcribed, and they were not published until 1975, on the centenary of Ravel's birth. Joseph Swensen, conducting the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, brings them back to life and infuses this colourful programme with his passion and infectious enthusiasm.
Tracks:
Maurice Ravel:
Ma Mère l'Oye, M. 62: I. Prélude
Ma Mère l'Oye, M. 62: II. Danse du rouet et scène
Ma Mère l'Oye, M. 62: III. Pavane de la belle au bois dormant
Ma Mère l'Oye, M. 62: IV. Les entretiens de la belle et de la bête
Ma Mère l'Oye, M. 62: V. Petit poucet
Ma Mère l'Oye, M. 62: VI. Laideronnette, impératrice des pagodes
Ma Mère l'Oye, M. 62: VII. Apothéose. Le jardin féerique
Robert Schumann:
Carnaval, Op. 9: I. Préambule (Transcr. for Orchestra by Maurice Ravel)
Carnaval, Op. 9: XVI. Valse allemande (Transcr. for Orchestra by Maurice Ravel)
Carnaval, Op. 9: XVII. Paganini (Transcr. for Orchestra by Maurice Ravel)
Carnaval, Op. 9: XVI. Valse allemande (Transcr. for Orchestra by Maurice Ravel) (reprise)
Carnaval, Op. 9: XXI. Marche des Davidsbündler contre les Philistins (Transcr. for Orchestra by Maurice Ravel)
Modest Mussorgsky:
Tableaux d'une exposition: Promenade I (Transcr. for Orchestra by Maurice Ravel)
Tableaux d'une exposition: I. Gnomus (Transcr. for Orchestra by Maurice Ravel)
Tableaux d'une exposition: Promenade II (Transcr. for Orchestra by Maurice Ravel)
Tableaux d'une exposition: II. Il vecchio castello (Transcr. for Orchestra by Maurice Ravel)
Tableaux d'une exposition: Promenade III (Transcr. for Orchestra by Maurice Ravel)
Tableaux d'une exposition: III. Tuileries (Transcr. for Orchestra by Maurice Ravel)
Tableaux d'une exposition: IV. Bydło (Transcr. for Orchestra by Maurice Ravel)
Tableaux d'une exposition: Promenade IV (Transcr. for Orchestra by Maurice Ravel)
Tableaux d'une exposition: V. Ballet des poussins dans leurs coques (Transcr. for Orchestra by Maurice Ravel)
Tableaux d'une exposition: VI. "Samuel" Goldenberg und "Schmuÿle" (Transcr. for Orchestra by Maurice Ravel)
Tableaux d'une exposition: VII. Limoges, le marché (Transcr. for Orchestra by Maurice Ravel)
Tableaux d'une exposition: VIII. Catacombae (Transcr. for Orchestra by Maurice Ravel)
Tableaux d'une exposition: Con mortuis in lingua mortua (Transcr. for Orchestra by Maurice Ravel)
Tableaux d'une exposition: IX. La cabane sur des pattes de poule (Baba-Yagá) (Transcr. for Orchestra by Maurice Ravel)
Tableaux d'une exposition: X. La grande porte de Kiev (Transcr. for Orchestra by Maurice Ravel)
