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	Maurice Ravel, Charles Dutoit, Montréal Symphony Orchestra Ravel: Orchestral Works; Piano Concertos; L'Enfant et les Sortilèges; Shéhérazade Genres: Special Interest, Classical No Description Available. Genre: Classical Music Media Format: Compact Disk Rating: Release Date: 4-JUL-2006
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All Artists: Maurice Ravel, Charles Dutoit, Montréal Symphony Orchestra, Pascal Rogé, Colette Alliot-Lugaz, Catherine Dubosc, Claudine Carlson, Georges Gautier, Didier Henry, Lionel Sarrazin, Odette Beaupré, Marie-Françoise Lefort
Title: Ravel: Orchestral Works; Piano Concertos; L'Enfant et les Sortilèges; Shéhérazade
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Label: Decca
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 7/4/2006
Album Type: Box set, Collector's Edition
Genres: Special Interest, Classical
Styles: Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews, Opera & Classical Vocal, Ballets & Dances, Ballets, Forms & Genres, Concertos, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Instruments, Keyboard, Symphonies
Number of Discs: 4
SwapaCD Credits: 4
UPC: 028947568919

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No Description Available.
Genre: Classical Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 4-JUL-2006

CD Reviews

A Ravel omnium gatherum in Decca's best sound

Santa Fe Listener | Santa Fe, NM USA | 08/09/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Dutoit was Decca's house conductor of French music for almost two decades, and here is gathered at budget price all the significant orchestral works as well as the two piano concertos. The spledid sonics and Dutoit's reputation will probably be enough to attract listeners who want everything from one conductor, but to my ears none of these performances rises to the very highest level.

With Boulez, Munch, and Monteux looking over his shoulder, Dutoit's readings come off as colorful, restless, bright, often brash, and lacking in that final touch of elegant style. Outside the French tradition we also have great Ravel recordings form Karajan, Reiner, Bernstein, and (in the two operas) Maazel. I'm not so sure it's such a good idea to put all one's egs in Dutoit's basket.

Since Amazon doesn't give track listings, here's the lineup.

Daphnis et Chloé

Pavane pour une infante défunte

La Valse

Piano Concerto in G major

Le Tombeau de Couperin

Valses nobles et sentimentales

Menuet antique

Piano Concerto in D major (for the left hand)

Fanfare from 'L'Eventail de Jeanne'

Boléro

Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs No. 4)

Ma Mère l'Oye

Une barque sur l'océan

Rapsodie Espagnole

L'Enfant et les sortilèges

Shéhérazade

Shéhérazade - Ouverture de féerie

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