Album guide
Fauré & Ravel (Jazz Impressions)
- Released
- 2024
- Label
- Indésens
- Forces
- Piano
- Personnel
- Hervé Sellin piano and arrangements, with Claude Egéa bugle on tracks 6 and 10
After a first Jazz Impressions devoted to Debussy, Hervé Sellin returned to French music with Fauré and Ravel.
He plays almost the whole album alone; Claude Egéa’s flugelhorn enters for just two Ravel pieces.
Sellin premiered the project at Le Bal Blomet in Paris three weeks before its 2024 release.
Hear both
The classical side contains only the source pieces used on the album, in album order. The jazz side presents the complete album whenever a dependable copy can be embedded.
Tracks 7 and 8 divide Ravel’s Introduction et danse religieuse into its two component sections, so the classical player uses one recording of the complete number for both.
Spotify’s player is here for convenience; the full track listing below remains available to everyone.
Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- Requiem in D Minor, Op. 48: No. 1, Introït et Kyrie (Arr. for Piano by Hervé Sellin)Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48: I. Introït et Kyrie
- Requiem in D Minor, Op. 48: No. 5, Agnus Dei (Arr. for Piano by Hervé Sellin)Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48: VI. Libera me
- Requiem in D Minor, Op. 48: No. 6, Libera me (Arr. for Piano by Hervé Sellin)Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48: V. Agnus Dei
- 3 songs, Op. 7: No. 1, Après un rêve (Arr. for Piano by Hervé Sellin)Fauré: Trois mélodies, Op. 7: No. 1, Après un rêve
- Pavane in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 50 (Arr. for Piano by Hervé Sellin)Fauré: Pavane in F-sharp minor, Op. 50
- Piano Concerto in G Major, M.83: II. Adagio assai (Arr. for Piano & Bugle by Hervé Sellin)Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major, M. 83: II. Adagio assai
- Daphnis et Chloé, M.57 (Arr. for Piano by Hervé Sellin)Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57, Tableau I: the Introduction that opens No. 1, ‘Introduction et danse religieuse’
- Daphnis et Chloé, Tableau I, M.57: No. 1, Introduction et danse religieuseRavel: Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57, Tableau I: the Danse religieuse that completes No. 1, ‘Introduction et danse religieuse’
- Pavane pour une infante défunte, M.19 (Arr. for Piano by Hervé Sellin)Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19
- Ma Mère l’Oye, M.60: No. 5 in C Major, Le jardin féerique (Arr. for Piano & Bugle by Hervé Sellin)Ravel: Ma mère l’Oye, M. 60, for piano four hands: V. Le jardin féerique
- Rapsodie espagnole, M.54: No. 1, Prélude à la nuit (Arr. for Piano by Hervé Sellin)Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole, M. 54: I. Prélude à la nuit
- Prélude, M.65 (Arr. for Piano by Hervé Sellin)Ravel: Prélude in A minor, M. 65
