MAURICE RAVEL: THE COMPLETE WORKS FOR PIANO (2 CD)

Description: buy new directly from the label:the artist For 25 years now Alfredo Perl has been one of the most influential performers in the field of classical and romantic piano music. His concert career was launched in Germany and England in the 1980s, and since then has taken him across the world. His repertoire, founded on Beethoven's 32 Sonatas, is still centred on these today. Listeners at his first concert in Germany - at the Cologne Musikhochschule in 1984 - were struck by a strong characteristic of his rendition of Beethoven's Sonata Les Adieux Op. 81a: this pianist, born in Santiago de Chile in 1965, impressed not principally through strength and virtuosity, but through conviction and persuasive elegance. In 2007, Alfredo Perl was named Professor for piano at the Detmold Music Academy. Anyone taking the opportunity to hear Alfredo Perl in concert should hear him not only as a soloist, but also in the realm of chamber music and concerto appearances. Soon after concluding his studies with Günter Ludwig in Cologne and Maria Curcio in London he performed the cycle of Beethoven's 32 Sonatas at several venues, including London's Wigmore Hall, the high temple of British piano culture. When radio producers at classical music stations wish to play recordings of Beethoven Sonatas, they often select the recordings made by Perl at that time. Why might this be? It is characteristic of Perl's playing that, compared to other leading pianists he has no marketable mannerisms such as a typical non-legato touch or a fondness for unmotivated accents. Neither does he belong to those less original imitators of Glenn Gould who like to demonstrate their analytic intelligence. Perl's attitude is a different one. Interpretation is a synthetic process resulting from continuous reflection on the work. It must satisfy the highest æsthetic demands. In this respect, Perl is not a revolutionary, but an heir to a classic European piano tradition. Perl's style is refreshingly, almost excitingly, free of mannerisms. It focuses the attention of the listener wholly on the music. He wishes to express something about the music, not through it. Music is not the medium, it is the destination, the focus. Perl is a pianist one listens to, as opposed to listening for. His musical identity develops from the music itself, a result of the never-ending, even hermeneutic, cycle of reflection, comprehension and realization of substantial and complex works of art. For this reason he is particularly successful in the large-scale, demanding works of the repertoire, the Diabelli Variations, the Hammerklavier Sonata, the difficult Op. 101, the last three Schubert Sonatas or the great works of Liszt's Weimar years. The occupation with smaller works is often a fertile by-product of this. The characteristics of Perl's playing always form a clear and beautiful style that is readily identifiable. Those familiar with his playing will easily recognize his recordings on the radio, should they miss the announcement. His timing is particularly unique. Perl takes care to control even the smallest nuances of time in the course of each episode, making each little melody a whole in itself. "If you wish to enjoy the whole, you must see the whole in every part", wrote Goethe or Schiller in their jointly compiled collections of epigrams, Xenien. With this in mind, Perl organizes the parts of a work and fuses them into an organic whole. In music, all proportions have to be organized in time, at once showing the similarity and the difference between music and architecture. As German critic Joachim Kaiser once said about Colin Davis, and as could equally be said of Perl, "He is a master of hearing structure". Perl does not attempt to reveal structures - he realizes them and makes them tangible. tracklist CD 1 Miroirs 29'51'' 1 Noctuelles 4'56'' 2 Oiseaux tristes 4'40'' 3 Une barque sur l'océan 7'51'' 4 Alborada del gracioso 6'25'' 5 La vallée des cloches 5'56" 6 Sérénade grotesque 3'48" 7 Prélude 2'08" Gaspard de la nuit 22'50" 8 Ondine 6'45" 9 Le gibet 6'27" 10 Scarbo 9'38" 11 Frontispice 1'23" Ma mère l'Oye 14'41" 12 Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant 1'31" 13 Petit Poucet 2'28" 14 Laideronette, impératrice des pagodes 3'16" 15 Les entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête 3'58" 16 Le jardin féerique 3'27" Total Time: 75'12" CD 2 Valses nobles et sentimentales 15'03" 1 Modéré 1'21" 2 Assez lent 2'13" 3 Modéré 1'26" 4 Assez animé 1'03" 5 Presque lent 1'27" 6 Vif 0'36" 7 Moins vif 2'58" 8 Epilogue lent 3'56" 9 Jeux d´eau 5'36" 10 Menuet antique 5'38" 11 Pavane pour une infante défunte 6'14" Sonatine 12'03" 12 Modéré 4'50" 13 Mouvement de menuet 3'30" 14 Animé 3'43" 15 Menuet sur le nom de Haydn 1'42" 16 À la manière de Borodine 1'28" 17 À la manière de Chabrier 2'40" Le tombeau de Couperin 23'20" 18 Prélude 2'50" 19 Fugue 2'57" 20 Forlane 5'33" 21 Rigaudon 3'12" 22 Menuet 4'43" 23 Toccata 4'02" Total Time: 74'23"

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