Ravel
Ravel & Poulenc: Daphnis et Chloé & Gloria (CSO Resound)
(Déjà Review) Marvelous playing, glowing sound, inspired coupling [BR]
Ravel: Orchestral Works (Naïve)
A valuable Ravel survey elegantly played, topped by a stunning Daphnis [NB]
Ravel & Fauré: String Quartets (Brilliant Classics)
An interesting pairing, somewhat let down by edgy sound engineering and excessive lingering in the Ravel [RMo]
Ravel: Orchestral Works & Song Cycles (L’Auditori)
A mixed bag of excellent orchestral works and less satisfying song cycles [RMo]
Ravel: L’Enfant et les sortilèges & L’heure Espagnole (Deutsche Grammophon)
A sparkling pair of Ravel’s contrasting operas, justifying their status as “gramophone classics” [RMo]
Joseph Moog (piano): Belle Époque (Naïve)
A dizzying array of piano treasures in effortlessly marvellous performances [RCh]
Monteux conducts Ravel Vol. 2 (Pristine Audio)
These three works present a perfect summation of both Ravel’s and Monteux’s art, now sonically enhanced by Pristine [RMo]
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique; Ravel: La valse (Decca)
Mäkelä disappoints in French music [LD]
French School Pianists play French concertos (APR)
This thoroughly absorbing set shines a light on spectacular pianism and unearths welcome rarities [RCh]
French School Pianists play French concertos (APR)
A great piano tradition is celebrated in style [PH]
Elim Chan (conductor) All These Lighted Things (Alpha Classics)
A new disc from a new star in the conducting firmament, featuring new music – and a couple of old warhorses [LD]
Unpublished! Spalding and Dohnányi in Concert (Parnassus)
Albert Spalding in the sunset of his career accompanied by Dohnányi in a sonata sequence [JW]
Overtures & Dances (TRPTK)
Well-played and recorded but I have reservations about some of the repertoire [GPu]
Darknesse Visible: Inon Barnatan (Pentatone)
An unusually thoughtful, very well played recital with a Miltonian cue [DHa]
Dualities: Arrangements for piano duo (Divine Art)
Highly effective and inventive works, neatly expanding the repertoire for two pianists [RCh]
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (Warner Classics)
A delicate, subtle, very Gallic account, beautifully engineered [RMo]
Ravel: The Complete Songs of Ravel (Signum Classics)
Clarity, fastidiousness, wit, harmonic richness, and melodic subtlety [JF]
Bertrand Chamayou (piano): Ravel Fragments (Erato)
An imaginative and beautifully constructed album provides a real highlight for the Ravel anniversary [DHa]
Ravel: Piano Concertos (Deutsche Grammophon)
Good performance of the Ravel concertos but the disc offers short measure [JQ]
Ravel: Très Franc (TYXart)
A joyful recital of great music stunningly played and recorded [NB]
Ravel: Fragments for piano (Erato)
An exquisitely played and intelligently assembled bouquet for Ravel [PH]
Ravel: Piano concerti (Deutsche Grammophon)
Ravel’s two concertos, reasonably well played and excellently recorded, but I was left wanting more [DHa]
Etsuko Hirose: The Complete Denon Recordings (Danacord)
These remarkable discs have been hard to track down so it is wonderful to have them collected together and to hear Etsuko Hirose’s dazzling pianism [RCh]
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (LSO Live)
As fine a modern, live account of this most pictorial of ballets as you could wish [RMo]
