Melvyn Tan embraces three centuries keyboard style tracing the inspirations for Ravel’s ground-breaking works for piano. By exploring new pianistic territory, Ravel mirrored Scarlatti and Liszt in experimenting and expanding the possibilities of the keyboard, now setting it free in highly coloured, impressionistic washes of sound which evoke situations, landscapes and characters.
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REVIEW:
It’s a beautifully judged disc, opening with a spectacularly virtuosic performance of Weber’s Invitation to the Dance, which leads perfectly to Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales. An illuminating recording, captivatingly played.
