Maurice Ravel: Orchestral Music

Ravel (Composer), Monteux (Conductor), Munch (Conductor), Koussevitzky (Conductor), Cortot (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Cortot
• Conductor: Monteux, Munch, Koussevitzky
• Composer: Ravel
• Audio CD (May 7, 2002)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 3
• Label: Andante
• ASIN: B000066TXJ
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #66,214 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Ma mhre l'oye, Suite: "Pavane de la belle au bois dormant"

2. Ma mhre l'oye, Suite: "Petit poucet"

3. Ma mhre l'oye, Suite: "Laideronnette, imperatrice des pagodes"

4. Ma mhre l'oye, Suite: "Les entretiens de la belle et de la bete"

5. Ma mhre l'oye, Suite: "Le jardin feerique"

6. Piano Concerto in G: I Allegramente

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Disc: 2

1. Bolero

2. Le tombeau de Couperin: Prilude

3. Le tombeau de Couperin: Forlane

4. Le tombeau de Couperin: Menuet

5. Le tombeau de Couperin Rigaudon

6. Valses nobles et sentimentales: Modere - Tres franc

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Disc: 3

1. La valse, poeme choreographique

2. Menuet antique

3. Claude Debussy (1862-1918) / (orchestration by Ravel): Sarabande from Pour le piano

4. Debussy (orchestration by Ravel): Sarabande from Pour le piano

5. Debussy (orchestration by Ravel): Danse from Pour le piano

6. Rapsodie espagnole: Prelude a la nuit

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Editorial Reviews

This three-CD set showcases Maurice Ravel's complete orchestral works in interpretations by some of his most persuasively idiomatic advocates from the 1920s through the 1940s, including conductors Pierre Monteux, Charles Munch and Serge Koussevitzky and pianists Alfred Cortot and Marguerite Long. Ravel himself conducts a rarely heard 1930 recording of his famed Boléro. The first volume in an andante survey of Ravel, this historic collection enables listeners to hear his orchestral works with a sound and sensibility in the tradition closest to the composer. The 96-page booklet features rarely seen photographs of Ravel and the performers, as well as an introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winner Tim Page, an essay by New York Times critic Paul Griffiths ("Orchestral Ravel: Cool Distance, Spectacular Brilliance") and detailed artist biographies from The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Valuable Time Machine!, July 2, 2011

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I began collecting the earlier incarnations of these performances with a Polydor dealers' sample of Ravel conducting Bolero on two 78s. Others followed on LP and then CD, but none sounded as good as these restorations. I am particularly impressed by the Koussevitzky Boston Symphony recordings. The Pictures at an Exhibition sounds like it was recorded at least 10 years later than the first sessions under Koussevitzky in October of 1930. The notes and performer biographies are all valuable background to the great music making. This is how historical reissues should ideally be done. One of the greatest bargains on line! If you love impressionist music, don't let this one get away!