RAVEL – COUPERIN
Philippe THURIOT, accordion
1CD Warner Classics 5054197 012549 (CD) – 0190296 912580 (Dig)
RELEASE: 22/06/2018
Until now, I thought it would be impossible to play Maurice Ravel’s work on the accordion due to the “short reverb” of my instrument. I only recently found the key to unravel and adapt certain works. To me, the fact that Ravel often adapted his own piano pieces for the orchestra was decisive.Le Tombeau de Couperin was inspired by the baroque suite. Given that baroque music is not unexplored territory for accordionists, I tackled this suite first, and the works of Couperin naturally followed. That is how I built a bridge to the Menuet antique and Pavane. The decision to play La valse only came much later because it was very difficult to adapt the work to my “knee-orchestra”. It was initially far from certain that I would be able to crack all the codes, but my instrument gradually started to recognize the three-quarter time through that other French connection, the valse-musette. (Philippe Thuriot)
Listen to Prélude from le Tombeau de Couperin https://open.spotify.com/album/2oRNZO8sgXTZ788bRpGtzH?si=-RdbKf1MS06ZeITDZe8pxw
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