Ravel - L'heure Espagnole
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Special offer. Ravel: L'heure Espagnole & Boléro
RecommendedIsabelle Druet (Concepción), Julien Behr (Gonzalve), Loïc Félix (Torquemada), Thomas Dolié (Ramiro), Jean Teitgen (Don Iñigo Gomez), Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Ravel's sense of instrumental characterisation is crucial, and the results are delectable. All the instruments used are listed in the booklet alongside their players. But the voices are just... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th June 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2023, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Winner - Assorted Programs
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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... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Remastered CD
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, September 2018, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Ravel: L’Heure espagnole & Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
Isabelle Druet (mezzo-soprano), Luca Lombardo, Frédéric Antoun (tenors), Marc Barrard (baritone), Nicolas Courjal (bass), François Le Roux (baritone)
Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin
the sound is exquisitely clear and the playing suave from the musky clarinets and ticking clocks of the opening to the sudden flush of hot-to-trot harps…[Druet] captures Concepcion's impatience... — More…
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Ravel: L'Heure Espagnole & Valses nobles et sentimentales
Aubery Luchini, Senechal, Tappy, Mollet, Olsen
Orchetra Sinfonica RAI di Torino & di Milano, Peter Maag
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Special offer. Ravel: Complete Orchestral Works Vol. 4
Stéphanie D’Oustrac (Concepcion), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (Torquemada), Alexandre Duhamel (Ramiro), Paul Gay (Don Inigo Gomez) & Yann Beuron (Gonzalve), Stéphanie D’Oustrac (mezzo)
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Stéphane Denève
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Special offer. Ravel: L’heure espagnole
Live recording from a recent Munich "Sonntagskonzert" on April 24, 2016, Prinzregententheater, Munich
Gaëlle Arquez (Concepcion), Julien Behr (Gonzalve), Mathias Vidal (Torquemada), Alexandre Duhamel (Ramiro) & Lionel Lhote (Don Inigo Gomez)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Asher Fisch
Fisch aims for headiness but avoids blatancy. Rhythms pulse and throb, and the Hispanic turns of melody often have a pointed suavity that hints at innuendo...The singers play it straight without... — More…
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Maurice Ravel: Complete Orchestral Works
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart Des Swr, Swr Vokalensemble, Cantus Juvenum Karlsruhe, Stéphane Denève
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Lorin Maazel - Complete Deutsche Grammophon Recordings
Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Wiener Philharmoniker, Lorin Maazel
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Ravel: The Complete Works
Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Anne Queffélec (piano), Samson François (piano), Claire-Marie Le Guay (piano), Beatrice Rana (piano), Ingryd Thorson, Julian Thurber, Martha Argerich (piano), Alexander Mogilevsky (piano), Jean-Pierre Armengaud (piano), Olivier Chauzu, Jean-Philippe...
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21 CDs
$58.00
