Ravel: Orchestral Works Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Gordan Nikolic & Carlo Rizzi

• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): La valse, M. 72 (Version for Orchestra):
• 1 Ravel: La valse, M. 72 (Version for Orchestra) 12:16
• Ma mère l'oye, M. 60 (Version for Orchestra):
• 2 Ravel: Ma mère l'oye, M. 60 (Version for Orchestra): I. Pavane de la belle au bois dormant 01:40
• 3 Ravel: Ma mère l'oye, M. 60 (Version for Orchestra): II. Petit poucet 03:46
• 4 Ravel: Ma mère l'oye, M. 60 (Version for Orchestra): III. Laideronnette, impératrice des pagodes 04:00
• 5 Ravel: Ma mère l'oye, M. 60 (Version for Orchestra): IV. Les entretiens de la belle et de la bête 04:57
• 6 Ravel: Ma mère l'oye, M. 60 (Version for Orchestra): V. Le jardin féerique 03:40
• Tzigane, M. 76 (Version for Violin & Orchestra):
• 7 Ravel: Tzigane, M. 76 (Version for Violin & Orchestra) 09:20
• Boléro, M. 81 (Version for Orchestra):
• 8 Ravel: Boléro, M. 81 (Version for Orchestra) 16:33
• Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19 (Version for Orchestra):
• 9 Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19 (Version for Orchestra) 06:25
• Total Runtime 01:02:37

Info for Ravel: Orchestral Works

With Carlo Rizzi, Gordan Nikolic and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Amsterdam, one of the most sought-after conductors, one of the best violinists and an absolutely top-notch orchestra got together for a TACET production. What an honour to be able to work with such artists! We have tried to apply the precision and painstaking detail from chamber music to this project as well. Carlo Rizzi brings out typically Ravellian details that frequently have the effect of being levelled out, e.g. the composed overtones. There will be some surprises in store for one listener or another. In all honesty: do you know what the saxophones in Bolero play a few bars before the end? Or when the first harp plays and when the second harp plays in La Valse? Not least, this production should offer something to the many old-fashioned crazy audiophiles, our beloved public, who still prefer a carefully produced sound carrier to a blurred or squeaky lossy downloads. Whether the result is really worth more than merely another line in the table "Recordings of the Great Orchestral Works of Ravel" - that is up to the critics to decide.

Gordan Nikolić, violin
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
Carlo Rizzi, conductor

Gordan Nikolić
was born in Brus, Serbia in 1968 and began playing violin at the age of seven. He entered the Young Talent Institute at the age of 9.

He graduated with the highest acclaims at the Musikhochschule Basel in the class of Jean-Jacques Kantorow in 1990. He also studied with Walter Levin, Hans Werner Henze, Witold Lutoslawsky and György Kurtág, developing an interest in both baroque and contemporary music. He is the winner of several international awards, which include the Tibor Varga, Niccolò Paganini, Cità di Brescia, and Vaclaw Huml prizes.

After being leader of the Orchestre d’Auvergne, the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, and later with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the London Symphony Orchestra, he often conducted the Chamber Orchestra of the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, Manchester Camerata, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Lille and Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse.

In 2000, he was appointed “Prince Consort Professor” for string ensembles at the Royal College of Music. In September 2003, he became a professor at the Guilhall School of Music in London and the Royal College in Rotterdam. In 2017, he started teaching at the Hoschule für Musik in Sarrebruck.

In 2004, he became Artistic Director of the Nederlands Kamerorkest in Amsterdam. He was principal guest conductor at the Manchester Camerata, musical director of the Saint George Strings Chamber Orchestra in Belgrade and created the independent orchestra BandArt in Spain.

He has performed as a soloist with prestigious orchestras and under conductors such as Sir Colin Davis, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Arie van Beek, André Previn, Daniel Harding, Myung Wung Chung, Bernard Haitink, Laurence Foster, Marc Albrecht, Jakob Kreizberg.

Gordan Nikolic has made many recordings for various labels (Alpha, Pentatone, LSO Live, Olympia, BNL, Warner Classics, Onyx Classics) For the label Tacet, he recorded Gound’s symphonies as well as Mozart’s violin concerti and last symphonies.

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