Robert CASADESUS PIANO RAVEL VALSE NOBLES et Sentimentales Columbia Album X-194

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A series of great Violin, Piano and Orchestra records on rare labels, from 1902 Monarch to 1940 War Germany recordings.

great recording with French Pianist Robert Casadesus, who often stepped in for recordings when it was too difficult for Maurice Ravel,  of the complete Ravel Valses Nobles et Sentimentales 

in his first recording session for Columbia, New York

VALSES NOBLES ET SENTIMENTALES (Ravel)

• Modere-tres franc
• Assez lent
• Modere
• Assez anime
• Presque lent
• Vif
• Moins vif
• Epilogue

Robert Casadesus (piano)

4 Sides., (10 inch) Set X-194

Recorded: 6 December 1940; Columbia Studio A, New York

2x 10" 78 rpm beautiful pre war gold label Columbia record with original album and notes

Condition: EXCELLENT pristine, plays very quiet A CHOICE COPY

album like new

The greatest interpreter of the piano music of Ravel, for my money, was Robert Casadesus. He had met the composer in 1923, after giving a performance of Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit, and, according to his wife Gaby (also a fine musician with whom he often partnered in piano duo repertory), "had the pleasure to be congratulated by the composer for his interpretation, for his performance of Le Gibet in the slow and nostalgic manner which Ravel had intended, all the time emphasizing the harmonic relationships." It is this sensitivity to the harmonic relationships in Ravel's music that gives Casadesus' performances their unique power. Take, for instance, a work like Le Tombeau de Couperin - Ravel's tribute both to the Baroque dance suite and to fallen friends in World War I, its surface placidity concealing deep grief, which Casadesus is able to draw out fully but, paradoxically, without calling our attention to it.

Casadesus' fame as a Ravel interpreter rests on his Columbia recordings of the complete solo piano music, but his earlier recordings of the composer have not received such wide circulation.  His very first session in the USA, in 1940 (although he had been a Columbia artist for many years, all his recordings prior to this were made in France), was entirely devoted to Ravel:

Each of the Duo-Art piano rolls (1922) is signed by Ravel as guarantee of their authenticity. There is however some suggestion that Ravel was not actually the performer on two of the items, Toccata and Le gibet, and that because of their technical difficulties Robert Casadesus pl

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