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The instruments gathered by Les Siècles bring a delicious transparency, so that there is both greater distinctiveness in the instrumental colours and a more satisfying blend than tends to be... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th April 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Diapason d’Or, May 2018, Nouveauté
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Pierre Boulez conducts Ravel
RecommendedPhilippe Entremont (piano), Jill Gomez (soprano), Jose van Dam (baritone), Heather Harper (soprano), Jessye Norman (soprano)
Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Camerata Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra (members), Cleveand Chorus, Members of the Ensemble intercontemporain,...
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Grammy Awards, 18th Awards (1975), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 18th Awards (1975), Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 27th Awards (1984), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Ravel: Complete Orchestral Works
RecommendedYuja Wang (piano), Ray Chen (violin)
Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Lionel Bringuier
When it comes to the works common to all sets – Pavane pour un infante defunte, Rapsodie espagnole, La valse, Valses nobles et sentimentales…Bringuier’s ear for style and mood, shaping and phrasing,... —
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Building A Library, February 2022, Also Recommended
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Ravel: Shéhérazade & Le tombeau de Couperin and Debussy: Ballades de Villon
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Lisa Wellbaum (harp), Alison Hagley (soprano)
The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
Anne Sofie von Otter is really exploiting the French repertory nowadays. After her Mélisande and Carmen, and Chaminade and Offenbach recitals, here she tackles Ravel's Shéhérazade with total... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2004, Editor's Choice
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What could be an exercise in comparison proves to be illuminating, shedding light on Ravel’s use of both piano and orchestra, for these are transformative mirrors. Crucially, the performances... —
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Building a Library, November 2023, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Orchestrations by Zoltán Kocsis of works by Debussy and Ravel
Júlia Hajnóczy (soprano)
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltán Kocsis
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This is very clever programming...Slatkin avoids making Valses nobles et sentimentales sound merely a melancholic prophecy of La valse...a splendidly characterised La valse, the lusciousness... —
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Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (Suites), La Valse, Le Tombeau de Couperin
Münchner Philharmoniker, Sergiu Celibidache
The sound quality throughout is clear and full in texture. —
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Thomas Zehetmair plays Ravel & Debussy
Thomas Zehetmair (violin, conductor), Emmanuel Ceysson (harp)
Orchestre de Chambre de Paris
A lucid, eloquently poised account of the Pavane pour une infante defunte: the music's instrumental colours...are attractively muted but at the same time sensitively defined and melded...Zehetmair... —
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