Ravel: L’enfant et les sortileges & Shéhérazade

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Isabel Leonard (L'Enfant), Yvonne Naef (Mother, Chinese Cup, Dragonfly), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (Teapot, Arithmetic and Frog), Elliot Madore (Grandfather Clock/Tomcat), Paul Gay (Armchair/Tree), Anna Christy (Princess, Fire, Nightingale)

Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa

Susan Graham has absolutely the right voice for this music and knows it well. Her French is fine and I'm delighted she respects Ravel's carefully notated vocal slides. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 More…

Release Date: 14th Aug 2015
Catalogue No: 4786760
Label: Decca
Length: 69 minutes

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Ravel: L'Enfant et les sortilèges, M.71 / Première partie

Work length29:54

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Paul Gay (bass-baritone), Elliot Madore (baritone), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor), Anna Christy (soprano), Isabel Leonard (soprano), Yvonne Naef (mezzo-soprano), Marie Lenormand (mezzo-soprano), Kanae Fujitani (soprano)
Saito Kinen Orchestra, SKF Matsumoto Choir, SKF Matsumoto Children's Chorus
Seiji Ozawa
Recorded: 2013-08-31
Recording Venue: Performing Arts Centre, Matsumoto

Introduction. "J'ai pas envie de faire ma page"

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Bébé a été sage?

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Ca m'est égal!

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"Votre serviteur humble, Bergère"

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Ding, ding, ding, ding

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How's Your Mug?

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Keng-ca-fou, Mah-jong

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"Oh! Ma belle tasse chinoise!"

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Arrière! Je réchauffe les bons

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Adieu, pastourelles!

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"Ah! C'est Elle! C'est Elle!"

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Toi, le coeur de la rose

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"Deux robinets coulent dans un réservoir!"

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Oh! Ma tête!

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Duo miaulé

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Musique d'insectes, de rainettes

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Ravel: L'Enfant et les sortilèges, M.71 / Deuxième partie

Work length14:53

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Yvonne Naef (mezzo-soprano), Kanae Fujitani (soprano), Marie Lenormand (mezzo-soprano), Isabel Leonard (soprano), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor), Anna Christy (soprano), Paul Gay (bass-baritone), Elliot Madore (baritone)
Saito Kinen Orchestra, SKF Matsumoto Choir
Seiji Ozawa
Recorded: 2013-08-31
Recording Venue: Performing Arts Centre, Matsumoto

"Ah! Quelle joie de te retrouver, Jardin!"

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Où es-tu? Je te cherche ...

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Ronde des Chauves-Souris "Rends-la moi...tsk,tsk..."

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Danse des rainettes

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Sauve-toi, sotte! Et la cage? La cage?

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La Cage, c'était pour mieux voir ta pretesse

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"Ah! C'est l'Enfant au couteau"

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Il a pansé la plaie ...

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Il est bon, l'Enfant, il est sage

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Ravel: Shéhérazade

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Susan Graham (soprano)
Saito Kinen Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa
Recorded: 2009-09-07
Recording Venue: Nagano-Ken, Bunka Kaikan, Matsumoto

1. Asie

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2. La flûte enchantée

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3. L'indifférent

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Excerpt, Ravel: Miroirs, M.43 (Version for Orchestra)

Work length8:02

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Saito Kinen Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa
Recorded: 2009-09-07
Recording Venue: Nagano-Ken, Bunka Kaikan, Matsumoto

Alborada del gracioso

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One of the world’s legendary conductors, Seiji Ozawa celebrates his 80th birthday in September 2015. To celebrate, this disc of all-new Ravel recordings features one of the composers he has been most closely associated with over his long career.

As a student of Charles Munch and Pierre Monteux, Seiji Ozawa studied with two of the 20th century’s greatest exponents of Ravel. In the 1970s he recorded a benchmark set of the complete orchestral works for DG with the Boston Symphony during his record-breaking 29 year tenure with the orchestra.

These new recordings derive from the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan with world-class soloists – leading American mezzos Isabel Leonard in L’enfant et les sortilèges and Susan Graham in Shéhérazade – and a hand-picked orchestra of the world’s finest players from Berlin, Vienna, Boston, Cleveland, New York and Philadelphia.

The recording of L’enfant et les sortilèges marked Seiji Ozawa’s first full return to conducting after recovering from surgery for life-threatening cancer in 2013. One of the performances was given in the presence of the Emperor and Empress of Japan who had journeyed to the city of Matsumoto especially for the occasion.

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December 2015

Susan Graham has absolutely the right voice for this music and knows it well. Her French is fine and I'm delighted she respects Ravel's carefully notated vocal slides.

28th August 2015

Ozawa conducts a fine cast that puts the text over clearly.

September 2015

Isabel Leonard makes a believable Child, from the tantrums at the start to the pity, sympathy and loneliness of the ending...A special bouquet to Marie Lenormand and Elliot Madore as the cats, whose mewing is particularly accurate...Susan Graham, like Ozawa, is at home in the French repertoire...and she is magically sensuous in Shéhérazade.

February 2016

The song cycle receives a purposeful reading, Graham capturing the sultry sensuousness of both text and music and bringing to the unfolding of its three small narratives a rich diversity of expression. Alborada, meanwhile, shimmers in a bright and shiny account from the virtuoso orchestra which Seiji Ozawa co-founded back in 1992. [L'Enfant] It represents exactly the kind of repertoire in which Ozawa has excelled over the decades, his much admired ability to separate out its rich, subtle and multicoloured textures memorably displayed and finely captured in the full-range recording.

30th August 2015

Yvonne Naef’s Maman and Leonard’s petulant Child are among the successes here, but Ozawa’s conducting is heavy-handed and brash. He calms down for Graham’s Shéhérazade, even more ravishing than her 2005 BBCSO version.

19th August 2015

it’s a performance of remarkable assurance, beautifully recorded with scarcely any extraneous stage noise, and every texture and instrumental detail perfectly placed and meticulously realised by the fabulous hand-picked Saito Kinen Orchestra...Isabel Leonard is the Child, never coyly childish, and the multifarious doublings among the rest of the cast...are all kept just the right side of exaggerated caricature.

21st August 2015

Sadly, sound recordings of the surreal one-act opera Les enfant et les sortilèges don’t really work...Isabel Leonard is winning as the stroppy little boy...Much more effective is Ozawa’s beautifully languid and atmospheric performance of Shéhérazade, with Susan Graham beguiling as the mezzo soloist, and a sizzling romp through Ravel’s Spanish odyssey

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