Ravel: Piano Concertos/Pavane pour Une Infante Défunte/Jeux d'Eaux/La Valse

Ravel: Piano Concertos/Pavane pour Une Infante Défunte/Jeux d'Eaux/La Valse

Ravel: Piano Concertos/Pavane pour Une Infante Défunte/Jeux d'Eaux/La Valse

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Composer: Maurice Ravel
Conductor: Lorin Maazel
Orchestra: Orchestre National de France
Performer: Jean-Philippe Collard
Performer: Michel Béroff
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-01-07
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:

Piano Concerto in G major: I. Allegremente
Piano Concerto in G major: II. Adagio assai
Piano Concerto in G major: III. Presto
Piano Concerto in D major (for the left hand)
Pavane pour une infante dÃ©funte, for piano (or orchestra)
Jeux d'eau, for piano
La valse, poÃ¨me chorÃ©ographique for piano or 2 pianos

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Music Review: The Fourth Star Lost in the Piano Box...
Rating: 3 Stars

Continue reviewing the Ravel Concertos--arguably the greatest twin pair of concertos in the repertoire--I move on from the sleepy Thibaudet/Dutoit (Jean-Yves Thibaudet - Ravel: Piano Concertos, etc.) to clearly more energetically charged territory. Even if Dutoit commonly finds a great deal of the generous myriad of details and atmosphere in Ravel's refined orchestral textures, he is rather much outplayed in this instance by Maazel. The same holds true for Thibaudet vs Collard, where the latter gets so much more out of the music--superior articulation, greater level of energy and a lot more fun--not to speak of the eternal beauty of the G major second movement (yes, Collard almost make you cry!)

The present disc was highly celebrated by the likes of Gramophone, conquering the 1980 Concerto Award. There is no doubt these performances have their merits. One has to give the Gramophone reviewers that the best Ravel Concerto twin couplings were still to come (Zimerman and Lortie). Having said that, the 1968 Argerich G major and 1978 Gavrilov D major were on the market (my personal killer combination, by the way) and clearly score over Collard/Maazel in all aspect except being coupled on the same disc. (Interesting to note is that Gavrilov in fact received the Gramophone Concerto Award two years earlier.)

This disc indeed is rather close to the four-star category. Ultimately, the utterly weird sound reproduction tips the scales into the lower category. Weird indeed my trying to describe it may ring, but it actually sounds as though the piano was recorded partly separated from the orchestra--as if in a box or perhaps a nearby undersized room. This problem turns even more serious in the one- and two-piano fillers that sadly are more or less sonically ruined--indeed a pity as they are pianistically quite excellent. As a matter of fact, EMI's Salle Wagram recordings generally end up a level or two below its Abbey Road dittos--this disc just supplies further evidence to this fact.

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