Ravel: Piano Concertos / Miroirs Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) Pierre Boulez, conductor / The Cleveland Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon) This disc offers performances that don't simply consume Ravel as an "Impressionist composer." Aimard and Boulez portray Ravel as: • A master of color, and at the same time • A cold structuralist, a precise designer. In the Concerto for the Left Hand, jazz elements and dark humor are sharply revealed, and in the G major Concerto, the artificial sense of balance behind the lightness is vivid. And in Miroirs, Ravel is presented not as sounds that become "landscapes," but as a reflective device for thought. A masterpiece for those who want to hear Ravel as 20th-century music, not just as "beautiful." #Ravel #Aimard #Boulez #DeutscheGrammophon #ClassicalCD #ModernMusic #FrenchMusic #Masterpiece