Ravel, Maurice > French National Radio Orchestra

Poemes: Songs by Ravel, Messiaen, Dutilleux / Renée Fleming, soprano

1 CD / Decca / 2012-03-06

Works: Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade, poems (3) for soprano (or tenor) & orchestra (or piano); Olivier Messiaen: Poèmes pour Mi; Henri Dutilleux: Deux Sonnets de Jean Cassou; Le Temps l'ho...
Performers: Fleming, Renée
Conductors: Gilbert, Alan; Ozawa, Seiji
Ensemble: ; French National Radio Orchestra

As the sensual centrepiece of an album of 20th century French vocal masterpieces, Renée Fleming makes her first-ever recording of Ravel's ravishing Shéhérazade. Complementing Sh&e...continue...

Ravel: Piano Concertos, etc / Haas, Paray, et al

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2005-03-08

Works: Maurice Ravel: Concerto for Piano in G major; Concerto for Piano left hand; Sonatine for Piano; Valses nobles et sentimentales
Performers: Haas, Monique
Conductors: Paray, Paul
Ensemble: French National Radio Orchestra

Ravel: L'enfant et les sortilèges, L'Heure espagnole /Maazel

2 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 1997-11-11

Works: Maurice Ravel: L' heure espagnole, opera in 1 act; L'enfant et les sortilèges, opera-ballet in 2 parts; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34; Igor Stravinsky: Chant du rossignol (...
Conductors: Maazel, Lorin
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; French National Radio Orchestra

"The orchestra is led with a technical precision so confounding that it lets a real sensibility blossom...Maazel's 'L'heure espagnole' eclipses every one else's...[the soloists] form...continue...