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Debussy & Ravel
Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy

Feininger Trio

Debussy & Ravel

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Format: CD
Label: CAvi
UPC: 4260085536382
Catnr: AVI 8553317
Release date: 02 June 2017
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Label
CAvi
UPC
4260085536382
Catalogue number
AVI 8553317
Release date
02 June 2017

"This recording is from start to finish pleasing to the ears."

Luister, 03-11-2017
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Forging their own paths Piano Trios by Ravel and Debussy

Claude Debussy was ten years old when was subjected to regular schooling for the first time in his life – when he entered the Paris Conservatoire. He had never attended primary school; instead, his mother had taught him reading, writing and arithmetic as best she could. At the piano, meanwhile, he had revealed his talent as a child prodigy, and his fate was sealed. The conservatory professors soon found, however, that this pupil was different, strong-willed, impetuous, and rebellious. His somewhat conservative piano teacher Antoine Fran.ois Marmontel, for one, could make no headway whatsoever with the young savage. After initial successes, disenchantment followed in 1880. Debussy was only awarded a “diploma” in piano accompaniment: this was the conservatory jury’s way of granting the would-be virtuoso a mere consolation prize. The child prodigy had failed.

It is all the more curious to learn, therefore, that Marmontel was the one who directed Debussy’s attention to a lucrative opportunity: Nadezhda von Meck, the eccentric widow of a rich Baltic German railroad owner, was a patron of the arts with a particular penchant for music, and she was looking for a pianist to accompany her on her annual summer trips through Europe., …….

The resulting piano trio is so spirited and full of vigor that the shadows in which it emerged are simply not noticeable: instead, it testifies to Ravel’s overflowing creative drive. Here, his style is fine-honed to the extreme, pointed and succinct, almost Constructivist. Innovative rhythms and metric structures are the Trio’s most striking feature. ……….

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Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy was a French composer. He and Maurice Ravel were the most prominent figures associated with impressionist music, though Debussy disliked the term when applied to his compositions. He was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1903. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his use of non-traditional scales and chromaticism influenced many composers who followed. Debussy's music is noted for its sensory content and frequent usage of non-traditional tonalities. The prominent French literary style of his period was known as Symbolism, and this movement directly inspired Debussy both as a composer and as an active cultural participant Among his most famous works are his Clair de Lune, his Three Nocturnes...
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Claude Debussy was a French composer. He and Maurice Ravel were the most prominent figures associated with impressionist music, though Debussy disliked the term when applied to his compositions. He was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1903. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his use of non-traditional scales and chromaticism influenced many composers who followed.
Debussy's music is noted for its sensory content and frequent usage of non-traditional tonalities. The prominent French literary style of his period was known as Symbolism, and this movement directly inspired Debussy both as a composer and as an active cultural participant Among his most famous works are his Clair de Lune, his Three Nocturnes and his orchestral piece La Mer.


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Maurice Ravel

Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer who is often associated with impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer. Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended France's premier music college, the Paris Conservatoire; he was not well regarded by its conservative establishment, whose biased treatment of him caused a scandal. After leaving the Conservatoire Ravel found his own way as a composer, developing a style of great clarity, incorporating elements of baroque, neoclassicism and, in his later works, jazz. He liked to experiment with musical form, as in his best-known work, Boléro (1928), in which repetition takes the place of...
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Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer who is often associated with impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer.
Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended France's premier music college, the Paris Conservatoire; he was not well regarded by its conservative establishment, whose biased treatment of him caused a scandal. After leaving the Conservatoire Ravel found his own way as a composer, developing a style of great clarity, incorporating elements of baroque, neoclassicism and, in his later works, jazz. He liked to experiment with musical form, as in his best-known work, Boléro (1928), in which repetition takes the place of development. He made some orchestral arrangements of other composers' music, of which his 1922 version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is the best known.
As a slow and painstaking worker, Ravel composed fewer pieces than many of his contemporaries. Among his works to enter the repertoire are pieces for piano, chamber music, two piano concertos, ballet music, two operas, and eight song cycles; he wrote no symphonies and only one religious work. Many of his works exist in two versions: a first, piano score and a later orchestration. Some of his piano music, such as Gaspard de la nuit (1908), is exceptionally difficult to play, and his complex orchestral works such as Daphnis et Chloé (1912) require skilful balance in performance.

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This recording is from start to finish pleasing to the ears.
Luister, 03-11-2017

CD of the Week    
Radio 4, 29-5-2017

The Feininger Trio plays the Debussy Piano Trio lightly and uninhabited and Ravel is spicy and refined.
Radio 4, 29-5-2017

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01.
Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in G Major L. 3 (1879): I. Andantino con moto allegro
09:18
(Claude Debussy) Christoph Streuli, Adrian Oetiker, David Riniker
02.
Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in G Major L. 3 (1879): II. Scherzo – Intermezzo: Moderato con allegro
03:29
(Claude Debussy) Christoph Streuli, Adrian Oetiker, David Riniker
03.
Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in G Major L. 3 (1879): III. Andante espressivo
04:09
(Claude Debussy) Christoph Streuli, Adrian Oetiker, David Riniker
04.
Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in G Major L. 3 (1879): IV. Finale: Appassionato
05:38
(Claude Debussy) Christoph Streuli, Adrian Oetiker, David Riniker
05.
Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in A Minor (1914): I. Modéré
09:08
(Maurice Ravel) Christoph Streuli, Adrian Oetiker, David Riniker
06.
Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in A Minor (1914): II. Pantoum. Assez vif
04:23
(Maurice Ravel) Christoph Streuli, Adrian Oetiker, David Riniker
07.
Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in A Minor (1914): III. Passacaille. Très large
07:22
(Maurice Ravel) Christoph Streuli, Adrian Oetiker, David Riniker
08.
Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in A Minor (1914): IV. Final. Animé
05:20
(Maurice Ravel) Christoph Streuli, Adrian Oetiker, David Riniker
09.
Petite Suite for Piano 4 Hands L. 88 (1888) (arr. For Piano Trio by David Riniker): I En Bateau. Andantino
03:43
(Claude Debussy) Christoph Streuli, Adrian Oetiker, David Riniker
10.
Petite Suite for Piano 4 Hands L. 88 (1888) (arr. For Piano Trio by David Riniker): II Cortège. Moderato
03:40
(Claude Debussy) Christoph Streuli, Adrian Oetiker, David Riniker
11.
Petite Suite for Piano 4 Hands L. 88 (1888) (arr. For Piano Trio by David Riniker): III Menuet. Moderato
03:06
(Claude Debussy) Christoph Streuli, Adrian Oetiker, David Riniker
12.
Petite Suite for Piano 4 Hands L. 88 (1888) (arr. For Piano Trio by David Riniker): IV Ballet. Allegro giusto
03:23
(Claude Debussy) Christoph Streuli, Adrian Oetiker, David Riniker
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