Ravel, Maurice > Markevitch, Igor

Portrait: Maurice Ravel

10 CD / Membran Import / 2010-07-06

Works: Maurice Ravel: Boléro; Ma mère l'oye; Rapsodie espagnole; La valse; Le tombeau de Couperin; Valses nobles et sentimentales; Daphnis et Chloé; Concerto for Piano in G major; Conce...
Performers: Bobillier, Gisele; Bonneau, Jacqueline; Casadesus, Robert; Cuenod, Hugues; Danco, Suzanne; Delecluse, Ulysse; Gieseking, Walter; Heifetz, Jascha; Laskine, Lily; Long, Marguerite; Lovano, Lucien; Mich...
Conductors: Ravel, Maurice; Inghelbrecht, Désiré-Emile; Furtwängler, Wilhelm; Markevitch, Igor; Cluytens, André; Gracis, Ettore; Ormandy, Eugene; Ansermet, Ernest; Lindenberg, Edouard

Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2; Stravinsky: Le Sacre de Printemps; Honegger: Symphony No. 5 ' Di Tre Re'

1 CD / Audite / 2009-07-17

Works: Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé Suite no 2; Igor Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps; Arthur Honegger: Symphony no 5 in D major ("Di Tre Re"), H. 202
Conductors: Markevitch, Igor

For decades, Markevitch was thought of as the conductor who was able, like no other, to master the considerablecomplexities of The Rites of Spring. The...continue...
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Homage to Diaghilev / Igor Markevich, Philharmonia Orchestra

1 CD / Testament / 1997-07-10

Works: Carl Maria von Weber: Invitation to the Dance, in D flat major J 260/Op. 65; Frédéric Chopin: Les sylphides, ballet (arrangement); Paul Dukas: L'apprenti sorcier; Manuel de Falla: Danza del...
Conductors: Markevitch, Igor
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

"...For all their chill, Markevitch's performances are never inhibited.On the contrary, their mixture of poison and poise is consistently gripping, often angry, sometimes overpowering: indeed,...continue...

Bartok: Dance Suite; Ravel, Busoni, et al / Igor Markevitch

1 CD / Testament / 1996-01-01

Works: Béla Bartók: Dance Suite for Orchestra, Sz 77; Maurice Ravel: La valse; Erik Satie: Parade, ballet in 1 scene for orchestra; Ferruccio Busoni: Tanzwalzer, for orchestra, Op. 53, KiV 288; An...
Conductors: Markevitch, Igor
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

"...the sound is so vivid and full of presence that much of the time you would swear it was stereo...An illuminating portrait of a conductor...continue...