Ravel 2

Robert Trevino’s first album together the Basque National Orchestra featuring orchestral works by the great French-Basque composer Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) received an excellent response. The programme in this second volume is perhaps more ‘French’ in nature, but the Basque orchestra is giving dazzling performances of these works by their own national composer. While the first album was focused on some of Ravel’s most popular orchestral works, this album includes some rarities, including Ma mère l’Oye (Mother Goose) in its complete ballet version, as well as one world première recording: Pierre Boulez’s orchestration of Ravel’s World War I era piano work, Frontispice.

1) Valses nobles et Sentimentales (16:45)
2) Menuet antique (6:54)
3) Frontispice (2:07)
4) Shéhérazade, Ouverture de féerie (14:19)
5) Ma mère l'oye, ballet (30:59)