Word: ravelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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French Orchestral Masterworks (Minneapolis Symphony, Antal Dorati conducting; Mercury). Ravel's Pavane Pour une Infante Défunte and Debussy's Three Nocturnes receive clean, vigorous performances that are a shade too sturdy for their moods of fragile classicism and vaporous impressionism; the orchestra sounds fine in Berlioz' Roman Carnival Overture. Recording: realistic, with a wide range of volume...
Complete Piano Music of Ravel (Robert Casadesus; Columbia, 6 sides LP). A major undertaking by an artist who is at his best in French music. Casadesus delights in the pastel shadings of Le Tombeau de Couperin, ripples almost too effortlessly through the intricacies of Gaspard de la Nuit. For the four-hand Mother Goose suite and Habanera, he is assisted by his wife Gaby. Recording: good...
...year before. He built its season into 22 weeks, and the orchestra itself into one of the half-dozen finest in the land. He gave San Franciscans clear and powerful Beethoven, Brahms and Wagner, surpassing performances of Franck and Berlioz, engaging ones of the music of his friends Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky. He wanted to quit San Francisco "while I can still conduct...
...ended her program with works by de Falla and Ravel. Although less at home in these exotic pieces than in the earlier Russian selections, she still sang them with provocative feeling. I especially enjoyed her seemingly effortless rendition of Ravel's evanescent La Flute Enchantee...
...every ensemble can move from a Haydn quartet to the viscous impressionism of Ravel without losing some authenticity en route. But the Budapest group played Ravel's F Major Quartet with all the suavity of tone and relaxation of phrasing that the piece required. In thematic structure and general outline the work is similar to the better-known Debussy quartet, but the contrasts seem much sharper here. The long, meditative third movement and the very short, intense finale demand virtuosity as well as restraint--two qualities for which the Budapest Quartet is famous. Ravel's skillful use of the quartet...