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...Wilson’s series of recordings for Chandos has hit a new high. ★★★★★ ‘Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé’ is released by Chandos...
...From Marsalis’s throw-the-kitchen-sink-at-it orchestral writing to Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé was not such a big step....
...The finale was Ravel’s La valse, another story modelling decadence and disintegration....
...Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé Sinfonia of London The Sinfonia of London reaches new heights....
...That chord was perfectly balanced in intonation and timbres, but more Ravel than Mahler....
...From there to Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit was a small step from one showpiece to another, any shortage of detail compensated by the tonal beauty of the water-sprite “Ondine” and the devilish panache of the...
...He says his go-to composers are Ravel, Debussy and Rachmaninov, although it’s hard to pinpoint their specific influences in any of his music. The Arts Foundation Futures award is worth £10,000....
...Catán’s language is vivid romanticism, with evocations of ballets by Stravinsky and helpings of Ravel....
...The second part of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G, rearranged as a trumpet feature, ended the set. The encore, written by Cohen’s daughter, was short, charming and sweet. ★★★★☆ cadoganhall.com...
...The whirlwind finale, though, was suitably rousing, with Ravel’s syncopated rhythms coming to the fore.Thank goodness, then, for Thierry Escaich’s Cello Concerto....
...There was a typically grandiloquent performance of Prokofiev’s Symphony No.5 in the first Prom, though again with precious little bite or drive, and the second signed off with Ravel’s La valse, a celebration...
...Early on, she flirted appealingly with Ravel’s beat, catching it at the last possible millisecond....
...Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin offered Baroque elegance with a dash of impressionist enchantment and the dizzying cascades of notes in La valse delivered nothing short of a hair-raising whirl around the...
...The Sonatine for flute and piano, his best-known piece these days, has the piquant elegance of Ravel and is played with grace by flautist Adam Walker with Bavouzet as accompanist....
...At one point, we see them do their make-up and get dressed, before rising slowly to the sound of Ravel’s Boléro....
...Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky is perhaps better known in the orchestral version by Maurice Ravel but the original for solo piano is, I think, more arresting....
...No composer was more precise in the composition of his music than Ravel....
...more challenging shows was Mexican artist Sebastián Solórzano Rodríguez (a 2014-15 protégé) performing his work [÷] v.0.8 : Boléro, which involved him practising 15 minutes of amplified heavy breathing to Ravel...
...Ravel: Concertos for Piano Les Siècles (Harmonia Mundi) Recordings of Ravel’s two piano concertos are not thin on the ground, but the delicately coloured sound picture here is like no other....
...Through insistent repetition and finely judged shifts in orchestration, Berio transformed the Boccherini original — taken from a quintet inspired by Madrid street music — into a piece with the insistence of Ravel...
...A lot of detail flashed out from Ravel’s brilliant orchestration....
...They played a wonderfully eclectic set of music old and new: string quartets by Maurice Ravel and John Adams, a wonderful composition by Caroline Shaw and pieces from their record Real Life....
...In the darkness, visitors appear to mingle with the dancing velvety stick-figure bats, leaping frogs and pink dragonflies from Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortileges, or with the stark black residents of Peking...
...for a small ensemble including didgeridoo, water percussion and harp, followed by the Buddha Passion and his percussion concerto The Tears of Nature, which he will conduct alongside works by Debussy and Ravel...
...After recordings of Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, Stravinsky ballets and much Debussy and Ravel, here is their second Mahler symphony to date....
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