CD: MIROIRS DE LA MUSIQUE

The French face and title of this production, focused on the early twentieth-century piano, is Ravel’s Suite Miroirs. It consists of five episodes, each of which portrays a different subject, observed through a mirror. […] There is space for subjects rarely portrayed in music, such as moths, melancholy bird songs, the majesty of the ocean. Noctuelles evokes the nocturnal “cousins” of butterflies, less graceful than the latter, and which, with their arrhythmic flight, populate the warm summer evenings, casting their shadows around the artificial lights. […] The collection is closed by the multi-colored bells of La vallée des cloches, from whose chimes a long solitary, very expressive song emerges, leading to a silence in which only the various chimes are heard vanish in distant echoes.