French Keyboard Masterpieces
VAI 1043-2
© VAI Audio 1998
Note: This album is out of stock in most stores. Most performances reissued on Ivan Moravec Plays French Music and Great Pianists: Ivan Moravec
Disc 1
Franck: Prélude, choral et fugue
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1 Prelude, Choral
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2 Fugue
Ravel: Sonatine
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3 Modéré
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4 Mouvement de menuet
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5 Animé
6 Debussy: Clair de lune (Suite Bergamasque)
Debussy: Children's Corner Suite
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7 Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
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8 Jimbo's Lullaby
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9 Serenade for the Doll
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10 Snow is Dancing
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11 The Little Sheperd
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12 Golliwog's Cake-walk
Disc 2
Debussy: Preludes
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1 Feux d'artifice
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2 La Cathédrale engloutie
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3 Les Collines d'Anacapri
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4 Les Sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir
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5 La Terrasse des audiences du clair de lune
6 Debussy: Jardins sous la pluie (Estampes)
Debussy: Preludes
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7 La puerta del vino
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8 Ondine
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9 Feuilles mortes
Debussy: Pour le piano
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10 Prelude
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11 Sarabande
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12 Toccata
Production
Format: CD-ADD
Original recording sessions:
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Disc 1 tracks 1-2: 1962 New York
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Disc 1 tracks 3-5, Disc 2 tracks 6-12: 1969 Vienna
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Disc 1 tracks 6-12, Disc 2 tracks 1-5: 1967 New York
Reviews
American Record Guide
... some of the most beautiful piano playing you will ever hear.
Fanfare
Moravec's awesome control and imagination make these discs a must for pianophiles.
Amazon.com
Here are two CDs of Ivan Moravec's famous Connoisseur Society recordings from the 1960s. Most of the music is Debussy, a composer whose music glows through the pianist's tonal colorations and imagination. You may never hear Clair de Lune played with more beautiful sound and less affected delivery. Moravec's Ravel doesn't sound just like Debussy, as it shouldn't; the tone is just as beautiful but the rhythms are outlined more strongly. The Franck work, his most popular for solo piano, comes off here as sheer magic.
