Ravel: Complete Music for Violin and Piano; Lekeu: Violin Sonata – review

Ibragimova/Tiberghien (Hyperion)Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien have become today's partnership of choice for violin and piano repertory. Their reputation is founded on their Beethoven, but they are just as compelling on this disc of music by Ravel and Guillaume Lekeu, the talented Belgian composer who died young in 1894. Ravel's best-known work for violin and piano is the brief but glorious Tzigane of 1924, but he was sometimes uneasy with the combination. He left his meandering First V...

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