There are other wonderful collections of orchestral works by Maurice Ravel (those by Pierre Boulez, Charles Dutoit, Claudio Abbado, etc.), but this issue featuring Jean Martinon and the Orchestre de Paris from 1974 is among the very best. Martinon's balancing of sonorities for maximum brilliance, highlighting of melodies, playful way with rhythm, ...
In 1975, conductor Jean Martinon recorded all the standard orchestral works of Ravel with the Orchestre de Paris for French EMI on five LPs. Thirty years later, EMI reissued most but by no means all of Martinon's Ravel on this two-disc set. Left out were all the works for soloists and orchestra -- both piano concertos with Aldo Ciccolini and the ...
For quintessentially French performances of the best-known orchestral works of Claude Debussy, these 1974 recordings by Jean Martinon and the Orchestre National de l'O.R.T.F. have all the subtlety of a baseball bat. Nevertheless, they have the same fine finish, smooth polish, rich textures, and sheer wallop as a Louisville Slugger, which doesn't ...
This set of Debussy orchestral works, originally recorded in 1974 and remastered in 1989, features some truly remarkable performances of some of the composer's less-frequently performed works. The Children's Corner Suite, which was originally written for piano, is likely one of the most familiar pieces on the program. The Orchestre National de l ...
Under Jean Martinon's meticulous direction, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra made these recordings for RCA in 1966 and 1967 and set high standards that conductors and orchestras have either followed or surpassed since. That Bartók's ballet The Miraculous Mandarin and Varèse's Arcana would later be given superior performances by Pierre Boulez and the ...
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