Chantal Juillet, Pascal Rogé, Truls Mork - Ravel: 3 Sonates pour Violon, Tzigane, Habanera, Berceuse (1996)
EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 78:17 | 317 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: DECCA | Catalog: 475 486-2
EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 78:17 | 317 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: DECCA | Catalog: 475 486-2
This excellent disc brings together, as far as I know, all of Ravel's chamber music for the violin with various one-instrument accompaniment (and in the case of the sonata for violin and cello not merely accompaniment). It is, quite simply, a delight from beginning to end. To start with the shorter works, the Kaddisch and Berceuse are poignantly played and the Habanera is lightly and subtly varied in texture and color. Juillet's singing, smooth tone is as deliciously perfect as I could possibly imagine, and the playing is, even more importantly, exquisitely phrased.