Ten years ago, the then emerging French pianist Bertrand Chamayou made a superb recording of the complete piano works of Maurice Ravel. It remains one of the major recordings of this music, and it put Chamayou on the international map.

Along with the standard works, he added Alexander Siloti’s piano arrangement of the song Kaddish, and a tribute piece by the composer’s contemporary Alfredo Casella, À la manière de… Ravel. This new disc, titled Fragments, picks up that thread. It is comprised of arrangements, and tributes by other composers.

Chamayou’s transcription of the second of Ravel’s Trois Chansons flows delicately, sounding exactly the way the composer might have transcribed it. The same applies to the vigorous Chanson de la Mariée from Cinq mélodies Populaire Grecque, where Chamayou’s attack brings to mind passages of Gaspard de la Nuit and the G major Piano Concerto. The Pièce en forme de habanera (here titled