Mais um disco de piano para ter em casa e para oferecer aos amigos. É o segundo volume das obras completas para piano de Maurice Ravel, tocadas por Artur Pizarro e gravadas em Bristol, no Reino Unido (o primeiro volume foi gravado no Teatro de São Luís).
Eis um excerto da crítica de Charlotte Gardner no sítio da BBC:
"There is a popular children's tale about a necklace of raindrops that I think would have appealed to Maurice Ravel. When I imagine the composer, I picture the tiny Frenchman alone, immaculately suited, head full of his beloved fairytales, winding up his collection of mechanical toys. Whilst this is an undeniably whimsical thought, its inspiration comes from his music, the crystalline notes placed inside antique forms with a near-fanatical delicacy and precision, like a necklace of raindrops. Stravinsky once described Ravel as, ''the most perfect of Swiss clockmakers'' and, whilst we can debate the Russian's intended meaning until we’re blue in the face, I doubt he was referring to Ravel’s engineering father or his tenuous connections with the homeland of Toblerone. More likely is that he recognised a master musical technician who married form with beauty to often dazzling effect. Analogies over, the reason why I'm at pains to convey all these images is because they sum up for me how Ravel's music should sound – like magical musical filigree - and my delight at hearing Artur Pizarro achieve just such an effect."
Eis um excerto da crítica de Charlotte Gardner no sítio da BBC:
"There is a popular children's tale about a necklace of raindrops that I think would have appealed to Maurice Ravel. When I imagine the composer, I picture the tiny Frenchman alone, immaculately suited, head full of his beloved fairytales, winding up his collection of mechanical toys. Whilst this is an undeniably whimsical thought, its inspiration comes from his music, the crystalline notes placed inside antique forms with a near-fanatical delicacy and precision, like a necklace of raindrops. Stravinsky once described Ravel as, ''the most perfect of Swiss clockmakers'' and, whilst we can debate the Russian's intended meaning until we’re blue in the face, I doubt he was referring to Ravel’s engineering father or his tenuous connections with the homeland of Toblerone. More likely is that he recognised a master musical technician who married form with beauty to often dazzling effect. Analogies over, the reason why I'm at pains to convey all these images is because they sum up for me how Ravel's music should sound – like magical musical filigree - and my delight at hearing Artur Pizarro achieve just such an effect."
