Debussy: La Mer; Prélude à L'Apres-midi d'un Faune ( Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) / Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2; Bolero ~ Karajan
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Composer: Claude DebussyComposer: Maurice Ravel
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-02-12
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
- I. De l'aube à midi sur la mer. Très lent [8'37]
- II. Jeux de vagues. Allegro [6'13]
- III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer. Animé et tumultueux [7'51]
- Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune [9'51]KARLHEINZ ZOELLER, FLUTE
- Daphnis et Chloé - Suite no. 2 [15'16]Lever du jour * Pantomime * Danse générale
- Boléro [16'09]
Music reviews of Debussy: La Mer; Prélude à L'Apres-midi d'un Faune ( Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) / Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2; Bolero ~ Karajan
Music Review: as far as I can tell
Rating: 4 Stars
You've really got to watch Deutsche Grammophon. They record a lot of good music very well, but if you don't watch them, they'll get you to pay for it twice, or pay more for it than you need to.
For instance, it appears that exactly the same recordings that this CD offers are available for $2 less: Ravel: Bolero/Daphnis Et Chloé/Debussy:La Mer/Prelude a l'apres-Midi D'un Faune.
Further, these famous recordings by Karajan and the Berlin PO of Ravel's Bolero and Debussy's Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune are also available with a famous recording by them of Mussorgsky's Pictures as orchestrated by Ravel: Ravel: Bolero; Debussy, Mussorgsky / Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. But if you get that CD, there is no way to get Karajan's recordings of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe or of Debussy's La Mer without purchasing the same recordings twice!
What a world. Just for this crap I've deducted a star from DG - though the recordings themselves appear to be absolutely unimpeachable, there is no reason to pay $2 extra or pay for any of them twice.
Unless money is really no object - in which case feel free to click right on over to my wish list and send me some stuff, not hesitating to max out your collection of credit cards on my sincerely grateful behalf - we have to find a solution, and here is the best I can find: Get the album that includes the Mussorgsky, because Karajan's recording of Daphnis et Chloe is not particularly famous, while the three recordings on that album (Pictures, Bolero, Prelude a l'a...) are each among famous the most famous of those pieces.
Then, if you want a recording of Daphnis et Chloe, by far the most famous seems to be the one by Monteux: Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé; Rapsodie espagnole; Pavane. (That is the complete ballet, while Karajan's recording is the "Suite 2" based on it. There do not seem to be any especially famous recordings of the suite, but one that appeals to me is New York Philharmonic: Daphnis Et Chloe Suite 2 / L'Oiseau De Feu, and the Penguin Guide gave it four stars out of four.)
As for La Mer, while Karajan's recording does seem to be fairly famous, Boulez's recording seems to be at least as famous if not moreso: Debussy: La Mer / Nocturnes / Jeux / Rhapsodie pour clarinette et orchestre - The Cleveland Orchestra / Pierre Boulez. An advantage of that recording is that it also features several other interesting works by Debussy. Another interesting and apparently famous recording of La Mer is by Munch: Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3; Debussy: La Mer; Ibert: Escales [Hybrid SACD], which seems to be more famous for the Saint-Saens, but also seems to be the most famous recording of Ibert's obscure piece. I think it may be worth shelling out for both of those even if you're going to get Karajan's recording as well.
Well, this is not based much on my own expertise, but on several hours of research on the internet and with various guides (Penguin, Gramophone, 1001 Recordings, the DG 2008 catologue, and Dubal's book). But I hope it enables you to get famous recordings without purchasing EXACTLY the same ones multiple times!
(DG's gotten me twice: I have exact duplicates of Brahms 4th Symphony by Karajan and the Berlin PO, and of Brahms' string quartets by the Amadeus Quartet. I am now dedicated to foiling their villiany! Actually I love DG, but all the same... money's money! And if you happen to be in the market for those pieces - it's completely irrelevant to the album I'm "reviewing" but I'm on a roll here friends - let me recommend EMI Great Recordings of Century - Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4/Klemperer and despite the price Brahms: String Quartets Op. 67, Op. 51 No.1 with Brahms: String Quartet, Op. 51 & Piano Quintet, Op. 34.)
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