Composed between 1904 and 1906, Ravel's Miroirs mark, according to the composer, a considerable turning point in his harmonic evolution. Worthy representatives of Impressionism in music, these 5 pieces depict what Ravel imagines to be the reflection of their dedicatees, all members of the artistic circle Les Apaches. From the Oiseaux tristes to the solar Barque sur l'océan, pianist François-Xavier Poizat gives an extremely fine interpretation of this monument of piano writing.

From May to September 1908, in his appartment in Levallois, Maurice Ravel composed Gaspard de la nuit, a piano triptych inspired by Aloysius Bertrand's collection of poems of the same name. The work opens with Ondine and its spellbinding cascades of notes, before moving on to Le Gibet, the central episode introducing a heady, crystalline death knell, which leads on to Scarbo, a finale whose virtuosity is as diabolical as it is famous. François-Xavier Poizat delivers an elegant and incredibly mature interpretation of this piece that "gets the blood flowing"!

Pianist François-Xavier Poizat, accompanied by the Philharmonia Orchestra under the baton of Simone Menezes, gives us a taste of the influences of jazz, Mozart and Saint-Saëns featured in Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major, one of his last finished works.