Penguin Rosettes, Ravel (composer)
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Ravel - Piano Concertos
RecommendedKrystian Zimerman (piano)
Cleveland Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
Zimerman's pianism is self-recommending.
His trills in the first movement of the G major Concerto are to die for, his passagework in the finale crystalclear, never hectic, always stylish. For... —Awards:
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Building a Library, May 2005, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1999, Winner - 20th-Century Concerto
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building A Library, May 2024, Recommended Recording (Ravel)
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Building A Library, October 2025, Top Choice (Piano Concerto in G)
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Building a Library, June 2014, First Choice
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Special offer. Régine Crespin: Shéhérazade
RecommendedRégine Crespin (soprano)
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet
Sumptuous of tone, supremely sensitive, Crespin was born to illuminate the art of French song. Whether floating the seductive allure of Ravel or revelling in the wit of Poulenc these recordings... —
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Building a Library, September 2007, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
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Special offer. Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye, Pavane pour une infante défunte
RecommendedMontreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit
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Gramophone Awards, 1985, Winner - Engineering
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A new bargain disc finds a Romanian ensemble fully at home in the string quartets of Ravel and Fauré. —
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Building a Library, November 2002, Budget Choice
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Ravel: L'enfant et les Sortileges & L'heure Espagnole
RecommendedBerlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de la RTF, Berliner Philharmoniker, Lorin Maazel
The singing is delightful: neoclassical crispness of articulation goes with refined textures that convey the ripe humour of the one piece, the tender poetry of the other.The inclusion of [the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Remastered CD
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Building a Library, September 2018, Also Recommended
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Ravel: L'enfant et les sortilèges
RecommendedNadine Sautereau, Denise Scharley, Solange Michel, Odette Turba-Rabier, Claudine Verneuil, André Vessières, Yvon le Marc'Hadour, Joseph Peyron, Martha Angelici, Marguérite Legouhy, Maurice Prigent
Maîtrise de la Radioffusion Française / French Radio National Chorus / French Radio National Orchestra,...
Bour's pioneering magical (1947) mono version...should never be forgotten and in some ways is the greatest performance of this sublime score on disc. —
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Historic vocal
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French Ballet Music of the 1920s
RecommendedL’Éventail de Jeanne, ballet in one act by ten French composers; Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel, ballet in one act by members of the group Les Six
Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon
The zany exuberance of Les mariés, concocted by five of Les Six in the 1920s, is infectiously captured in this colourful reissue, as is L'éventail, a contemporaneous ten-composer collaboration. —
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