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1CD+1CDR Recording Country: United Kingdom Recording Location: 7-8 July 1981, Abbey Road Studios Mix Date: 1 Jan 2000 Producer: Suvi Raj Grubb Balance Engineer: Christopher Parker Digitally remastered at Abbey Road by Allan Ramsay. Source: CDC 7471692 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Ravel - L'Enfant et les sortileges & Mother Goose
Joining the Berliner Philharmoniker and Simon Rattle in the one-act opera L'enfant et les sortilèges is a stellar cast. The opera has strong associations for Sir Simon. Shortly after winning the John Player International Conducting Competition in May 1974, Rattle, then aged 19, conducted the work in concert in Liverpool, receiving the first of many critical successes in his career. A Glyndebourne performance in 1987 sealed his reputation for the work, and this recording encapsulates his love and experience for the charmed sound-world of the Child's house and garden in Ravel's setting. “Rattle's first recording of the ballet was superlative, but this second rendering, is, if anything, better, taking full advantage of the Berlin Phil's exceptional colours.” BBC Music Magazine, April 2009 **** “Simon Rattle has long held the work in affection… The line-up of soloists in Berlin could hardly be starrier… As the child, Magdalena Kožená manages to seem suitably boyish and wilful… The fill-up items… Ma Mère l'Oye is lusciously played…” Gramophone Magazine, June 2009 “The playing of the Berlin orchestra is of a stupendous refinement, capturing that Ravelian mixture of sophistication and innocence.” The Telegraph, 4th May 2009 ***** “The best of the French singers is Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, an immaculately declaimed Teapot/Arithmatic/Frog.” Sunday Times, 29th March 2009 *** “Rattle says it's been a particular joy to bring Ravel's music to the Berlin Philharmonic, and this disc is a joy for the listener too...Kozena sings a vocally excellent and dramatically convincing Boy, whilst Koch and le Roux perform the meowed cats' duet to its feline best. Ma Mere L’Oye equally shimmers and sparkles in all the right places...Quite wonderful.” Charlotte Gardner, bbc.co.uk, 20th March 2009 “Every detail is pointed, with some astonishing ensemble accuracy and a lustrous sound” Classic FM Magazine, May 2009 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Ravel: | L'enfant et les sortilèges Libretto by Colette Shéhérazade Members of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chattanooga Boys Choir & Nashville Symphony Chorus |
Setting a charming text by Colette, Ravel’s richly-scored opera L’Enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Spells) is a lyric fantasy whose cast includes fairy tale characters, crockery, plants and little animals which come to life to chastise the child who has been tormenting them. However, all ends happily when the child learns compassion. Ravel’s life-long fascination with the exotic orient found inspiration in three poems by Tristan Klingsor, brought together in his ravishing and enduringly popular song cycle Shéhérazade. “Ravel brilliantly balances raucous humour with heartfelt tenderness, and any production or recording needs to be able to convey both his caricatures and the sublime. This engaging account from Nashville successfully negotiates this balancing act. Julie Boulianne's child has wide-eyed wonder... She can be heard in grown-up, and decidedly seductive mode in the accompanying Shéhérazade.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2009 **** | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“The singing is delightful: neoclassical crispness of articulation goes with refined textures that convey the ripe humour of the one piece, the tender poetry of the other.The inclusion of [the Rimsky Korsakov and Stravinsky], two classics of the gramophone, makes this reissue more desirable than ever.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Nadine Sautereau, Denise Scharley, Solange Michel, Odette Turba-Rabier, Claudine Verneuil, André Vessières, Yvon le Marc'Hadour, Joseph Peyron, Martha Angelici, Marguérite Legouhy, Maurice Prigent Maîtrise de la Radioffusion Française / French Radio National Chorus / French Radio National Orchestra, Ernest Bour “Bour's pioneering magical (1947) mono version...should never be forgotten and in some ways is the greatest performance of this sublime score on disc.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Juliette Bise (soprano), Gisele Bobillier (soprano), Hugues Cuenod (tenor), Suzanne Danco (soprano), Paul Derenne (tenor), Michel Hamel (tenor), Lucien Lovano (bass), Adrienne Migliette (soprano), Pierre Mollet (baritone), Marie-Lise de Montmollin (contralto), Heinz Rehfuss (baritone), Genevieve Touraine (soprano), Andre Vessieres (bass), Flore Wend (mezzo-soprano), Andre Pepin (flute) L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Paris Conservatoire Orcheatra, Motet de Geneve, Ernest Ansermet Fascinated by children, Ravel composed two one-act operas, L'enfant et les sortileges and L'Heure espagnole. These priceless Ansermet recordings now return to the catalogue, coupled with the rare and much-requested disc of Ravel vocal works with Danco and Ansermet. As a coupling we have the Paris Conservatoire recordings of Bolero (the stereo version making its first ever appearance in any recording format) and La Valse. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Ravel: | L'enfant et les sortilèges Cynthia Buchan, Fiona Kimm, Malcolm Walker, François Loup, Hyacinth Nicholls, Thierry Dran, Louise Winter, Nan Christie, Jady Pearl, Carol Smith, Harolyn Blackwell, Anna Steiger & Alison Hagley Simon Rattle L'heure Espagnole Anna Steiger, François Le Roux, Rémy Corazza, Thierry Dran & François Loup Sian Edwards |
Designs by Maurice Sendak. Maurice Ravel’s one-act operas L’Enfant et les Sortilèges and L’heure espagnole are often performed as a double bill. These two productions for Glyndebourne Festival Opera were first recorded and seen on BBC TV in 1987, and are both designed by the great American children’s book writer and illustrator, Maurice Sendak, and directed by Frank Corsaro. L’Enfant et les Sortilèges or ‘The bewitched child’ is an enchanting fantasy which tells the tale of a boy who is angry because he does not want to learn his lessons. He destroys his books and vandalises the room he is in. But the room comes to life – chairs, grandfather clock, teapot and teacup – and seeks revenge… The staging of this production featured film projection, and this has been brilliantly reflected in the electronically-edited television recording. Cynthia Buchan sings the role of the boy, and the cast also includes Fiona Kimm, Malcolm Walker, François Loup, Hyacinth Nicholls, Thierry Dran, Louise Winter, Nan Christie, Jady Pearl, Carol Smith, Harolyn Blackwell, Anna Steiger, and Alison Hagley. Simon Rattle conducts The London Philharmonic. “…absolutely magical” THE TIMES L’heure espagnole means not only ‘the Spanish clock’ but also ‘the Spanish hour’; every Thursday at the same time, the clockmaker Torquemada has an appointment to wind and regulate the town clocks, thus leaving his wife alone in the house for an hour… The Spanish adventure is set in a Toledo square, over which towers the baroque façade of the town hall where Torquemada winds and minds the clocks. Maurice Sendak’s delightfully animated set comprises a huge baroque façade complete with working clocks and carved emblems. The cast includes Anna Steiger, François Le Roux, Rémy Corazza, Thierry Dran and François Loup. Sian Edwards conducts The London Philharmonic. “…a captivating fairy tale work that constantly seduces the eye and the senses.” DAILY TELEGRAPH “These affectionate productions of the Ravel double-bill have sumptuous orchestral playing and fine vocal characterisation. Sendak's distinctive designs are striking, but do not match the music for colour and sparkle in L'enfant.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2009 **** “L'heure espagnole boasts two singing actors who understand the limitations of camera close-ups. As Concepcion, Anna Steiger is wonderfully deadpan… Françoise Le Roux is the muleteer with little conversation but unquenchable energy… Sian Edwards conducts, with keen attention to all Ravel's use of Spanish dance rhythms. L'enfant et les sortilèges is the great challenge... there are many amusing details, such as the leapfrog antics of Thierry Dran and his crew, Françoise Loup and Hyacinth Nicholls as quite aggressive armchairs, and Anna Steiger again, now as the Squirrel, who sings one of Ravel's most enchanting melodies. Simon Rattle conducts a performance somewhat freer in spirit, I thought, than his more recent effort with the Berlin Philharmonic.” Gramophone Magazine, January 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Aubery Luchini, Mesple, Herzog, Macaux, Senechal, Mollet, Olsen Coro e Orchestra Sinfonica RAI di Roma, Peter Maag Recorded 1963 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Suzanne Danco (soprano), Hugues Cuenod (tenor), Lucien Lovano (bass), Flore Wend (mezzo-soprano), Marie Lise De Montmollin (mezzo-soprano), Genevieve Touraine (soprano), Adrienne Migliette (soprano), Juliette Bise (contralto), Gisele Bobillier (soprano), Pierre Mollet (baritone) Swiss Romande Orchestra, Geneva Motet Choir, Ernest Ansermet | |
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