François-Xavier Poizat - Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 21:42 minutes | 277 MB
Classical | Label: Aparté, Official Digital Download
From May to September 1908, in his appartment in Levallois, Maurice Ravel composed Gaspard de la nuit, a piano triptych inspired by Aloysius Bertrand's collection of poems of the same name. The work opens with Ondine and its spellbinding cascades of notes, before moving on to Le Gibet, the central episode introducing a heady, crystalline death knell, which leads on to Scarbo, a finale whose virtuosity is as diabolical as it is famous. François-Xavier Poizat delivers an elegant and incredibly mature interpretation of this piece that "gets the blood flowing"!