Ravel & Fauré Works for Piano and Orchestra
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Composer or Director: Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: Chandos
Magazine Review Date: 1/1990
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 57
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: CHAN8773
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Concerto for Piano (Left-Hand) and Orchestra |
Maurice Ravel, Composer
London Symphony Orchestra Louis Lortie, Piano Maurice Ravel, Composer Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Conductor |
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra |
Maurice Ravel, Composer
London Symphony Orchestra Louis Lortie, Piano Maurice Ravel, Composer Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Conductor |
Ballade |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer London Symphony Orchestra Louis Lortie, Piano Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Conductor |
Composer or Director: Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel
Label: Chandos
Magazine Review Date: 1/1990
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: ABRD1411
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Concerto for Piano (Left-Hand) and Orchestra |
Maurice Ravel, Composer
London Symphony Orchestra Louis Lortie, Piano Maurice Ravel, Composer Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Conductor |
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra |
Maurice Ravel, Composer
London Symphony Orchestra Louis Lortie, Piano Maurice Ravel, Composer Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Conductor |
Ballade |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer London Symphony Orchestra Louis Lortie, Piano Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Conductor |
Composer or Director: Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel
Label: Chandos
Magazine Review Date: 1/1990
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: ABTD1411
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Concerto for Piano (Left-Hand) and Orchestra |
Maurice Ravel, Composer
London Symphony Orchestra Louis Lortie, Piano Maurice Ravel, Composer Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Conductor |
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra |
Maurice Ravel, Composer
London Symphony Orchestra Louis Lortie, Piano Maurice Ravel, Composer Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Conductor |
Ballade |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer London Symphony Orchestra Louis Lortie, Piano Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Conductor |
Author: Christopher Headington
To keep an open mind and search for spirit rather than letter, I deliberately did not use a score in a first hearing of the G major Concerto, but here too Lortie and his conductor too often allow momentum, and ultimately shape, to slacken and not only in fast music. Both Roge (Decca) and Collard (EMI) are significantly faster in each of the three movements here and in the Left-Hand Concerto too, yet neither hurries Ravel's music; either of these fine and well-recorded performances strikes me as closer to the composer's thought (though it must be said that there is an editing fault in the last bars of the Collard Left-Hand Concerto). But Lortie gives a fine tonal shading to the first-movement cadenza of this G major work and its beautiful Adagio too, while in the finale he comes closer to a naturally convincing interpretation, with fine articulation showing to advantage. After the rhetoric and verve of the Ravel works, the quietly reflective Faure Ballade (which both Liszt and Debussy thought too pale to be interesting, as Bryce Morrison reminds us in his useful note) suits him pretty well in its gentle tapestry of pastel colours. Collard (EMI) is a little more energetic where the music allows and so obtains more variety of mood; his persuasive performance comes on a well-filled and well-planned CD devoted entirely to orchestral pieces by this composer.'
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