Classical new release - Harmonia Mundi UK Distribution
Classical new release - Harmonia Mundi UK Distribution
Classical new release - Harmonia Mundi UK Distribution
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Label: Onyx Classics<br />
File Under: <strong>Classical</strong>/Instrumental<br />
Catalogue No: ONYX4117<br />
Barcode: 880040411727<br />
NORMAL Price<br />
Format: 1 CD<br />
Packaging: cristal<br />
Pascal & Ami Rogé [pianos]<br />
DEBUSSY: La Mer, Fetes, Prelude l’apres-midi d’un faune<br />
RAVEL: Rapsodie espagnol, Ma Mere l’Oye<br />
SAINT-SAENS: Scherzo<br />
Pascal Rogé<br />
Ami Rogé<br />
RELEASE DATE<br />
3RD JUNE 2013<br />
For his <strong>new</strong> ONYX CD Pascal is joined by his wife Ami for a programme of French masterworks for orchestra by<br />
Debussy and Ravel in arrangements for two pianos. The arrangement of 'La Mer' is the Rogés' own, the others are by<br />
the composers. The transcription by Maurice Ravel (1908) of Debussy’s 'Fetes', in the words of the distinguished<br />
musicologist Maurice Hinson, "has been translated into the two-piano idiom with independent artistry [and] ranks with the<br />
best original writing in the two-piano medium." Unlike Liszt’s single-movement 'Spanish Rhapsody' for solo piano, Ravel’s<br />
is a four-movement suite for two pianos: ‘Prélude à la Nuit’, ‘Malagueña’, ‘Habanera’ and ‘Feria’. It was written within the<br />
space of a few weeks in October but built around the ‘Habanera’ which had formed the first movement of his 'Sites<br />
articulaire' of 1895. Its recycling may have had something to do with Ravel’s resentment at being accused of plagiarising<br />
a passage from Debussy’s ‘La soirée dans Grenade’ of 1903 written in the same key with a habanera rhythm and a<br />
similar use of an insistent C sharp clashing against the harmonies.<br />
Ravel pointedly attached the date ‘1895’ underneath his ‘Habanera’ in the two-piano score of Rapsodie espagnole and<br />
the orchestral version which he prepared in the early months of 1908.<br />
Pascal Rogé has for many years been considered the prime interpreter of French piano repertoire. His recordings of<br />
Satie and the Debussy Preludes (ONYX4004) are benchmark recordings. BBC Radio 3 when reviewing the Debussy<br />
Preludes said they "came close to a definitive interpretation" and Telerama in France commented "Très beau, tres<br />
éduisant. Souverain".<br />
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