Beautiful Starry Night: Thibaudet Plays Ravel

Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Artist), Ravel (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 19, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B00000428R
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #266,858 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Gaspard de la nuit: I. Ondine

2. Gaspard de la nuit: II. Le Gibet

3. Gaspard de la nuit: III. Scarbo

4. Gaspard de la nuit: Menuet sur le nom de Haydn

5. Gaspard de la nuit: Prelude

6. Gaspard de la nuit: Pavane pour une infante defunte

7. Gaspard de la nuit: Jeux d'eau

8. Miroirs: I. Noctuelles

9. Miroirs: II. Oiseaux tristes

10. Miroirs: III. Une barque sur l'ocean

11. Miroirs: IV. Alborada del gracioso

12. Miroirs: V. La Vallee des cloches

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful, contemplative music, November 7, 2002

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NotATameLion (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beautiful Starry Night: Thibaudet Plays Ravel (Audio CD)

If I had to pick the top ten CDs in my entire music collection, Beautiful Starry Night would have to be among them. This is truly a disc of excellence. It is not only beautiful (as the title says) but contemplative as well.

Jean-Yves Thibaudet was born to play this music. He has just the right touch of restraint to hold this complex and often meandering music together. At the same time, he allows himself to become absorbed and a part of it.

From the very first track, this disc amazes. Ravel has done a truly remarkable thing in writing Gaspard de la nuit -- he has captured the sound of the stars. Likewise, his Miroirs are the perfect audible representation of introspection and contemplation.

I know of no other piano album that can match this one for sheer beauty. I give Jean-Yves Thibaudet's Beautiful Starry Night my highest recommendation.