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Maurice Ravel
's
Le tombeau de Couperin
has sometimes been paired with music by its namesake, naturally enough, but here, pianist
Martin James Bartlett
expands the concept a bit, adding
Rameau
at the beginning, some little two-piano pieces by
Reynaldo Hahn
and
Ravel
's apocalyptic
La valse
as a grand finale. The result is that he looks outward from the neoclassic world, catching the memorial function of
(the work's six movements memorialize friends of the composer killed in World War I) and carrying overtones of the whole world that vanished with the war. The inclusion of the pair of two-piano pieces from
Le ruban dénoué
by the intensely nostalgic
Hahn
intensifies the mood.
Bartlett
's tone is measured, avoiding sentiment and holding to an elevated aesthetic. His
has an impact that is all the greater in this context.
denied that this work was a symbolic representation of the decline of the old central European culture or of anything else, but one might rejoin that he did not have to realize it for this to be so.
plays the work in its single-piano arrangement, made by
. This is not often heard, due not only to its sheer difficulty but also because of its swirling density. Having introduced the second piano of
Alexandre Tharaud
in the
works,
could easily have kept it on for the
. However, his decision was intelligent; the single-piano arrangement has an overwhelming quality that works very well here. This is an unusually cohesive and powerful program, beautifully performed, and the album landed on classical best-seller lists in early 2024. ~ James Manheim
's
Le tombeau de Couperin
has sometimes been paired with music by its namesake, naturally enough, but here, pianist
Martin James Bartlett
expands the concept a bit, adding
Rameau
at the beginning, some little two-piano pieces by
Reynaldo Hahn
and
Ravel
's apocalyptic
La valse
as a grand finale. The result is that he looks outward from the neoclassic world, catching the memorial function of
(the work's six movements memorialize friends of the composer killed in World War I) and carrying overtones of the whole world that vanished with the war. The inclusion of the pair of two-piano pieces from
Le ruban dénoué
by the intensely nostalgic
Hahn
intensifies the mood.
Bartlett
's tone is measured, avoiding sentiment and holding to an elevated aesthetic. His
has an impact that is all the greater in this context.
denied that this work was a symbolic representation of the decline of the old central European culture or of anything else, but one might rejoin that he did not have to realize it for this to be so.
plays the work in its single-piano arrangement, made by
. This is not often heard, due not only to its sheer difficulty but also because of its swirling density. Having introduced the second piano of
Alexandre Tharaud
in the
works,
could easily have kept it on for the
. However, his decision was intelligent; the single-piano arrangement has an overwhelming quality that works very well here. This is an unusually cohesive and powerful program, beautifully performed, and the album landed on classical best-seller lists in early 2024. ~ James Manheim