Ravel! (Random Reviews from the Overflow Room 14)

Remember Ravel's rarely recorded Prix de Rome cantatas? Well, here they are again (along with lots of other stuff).

[@robertdandre94101]

I can't wait for you to make a video about the conductor Ernest Bour. ​​Yesterday I listened to his Ravel album, very well recorded in Baden-Baden in the early 70s....a very beautiful album...the end of "Ma Mere L'Oye" is superb....!..Astré-Auvidis has published some very beautiful recordings of this conductor, but I know there are others...

[@billspectre9502]

I've been enjoying your Ravel overflow. Yesterday I listened to Daphnis et Chloe for I guess the first time! I heard the Monteux LSO and the Dutoit/Montreal. And watched one here on KZbin that is more recent the WDR with Jukka-Pekka Saraste. I really love this work now! lol

[@robhaynes4410]

The Abbado Daphnis is from 1989. Not exactly straddling the digital era. To the extent that the sound is subpar (I find it to be just fine, just a little bit distant), we can't blame the DG's engineer's unfamiliarity with the technology.

[@DavesClassicalGuide]

OK then, they just had a bad day (compared to the rest of the series).

[@robhaynes4410]

​@@DavesClassicalGuide I still think it's pretty good, at least listening on headphones a few weeks ago. But absolutely the pushness of the late analog of the earlier titles is superior.

[@petertaplin4365]

Unless I'm mistaken, I think the Louis Lane Ravel Introduction and Allegro is a bit weird, as it uses a whole string section, rather than solo players!

[@DavesClassicalGuide]

Nothing unusual there. Martinon did it that way too, and many others.