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In Reply to: RE: Classics Today reviews a HIP Ravel Daphnis et Chloé posted by Chris from Lafayette on May 12, 2017 at 09:24:08
Artistic Quality: 7. Presumably this means that the interpretation is well above average.
The review ends with "Why waste your time with it when Monteux is readily available and you can still enjoy the real thing?" Sounds like a 2 to me.
Maybe every new recording gets a 5 just for showing up, or maybe they hand out five points for having survived the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique.
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His LSO had a terrible French accent, IMHO.
A personal thing,but I also like a bit more of a languorous Sunrise. Monteux's is pretty bleached and squeaky-clean IIRC.
I probably haven't listened to Daphnis more than Bolero, and that's a very small number of listens.
It's a bit like Debussy's Jeux. There are undeniably good things in it but I just have no desire to listen to the music. I find it sprawling and rather shapeless and I find the content fairly uninteresting.
This coming from a bit of a Ravel addict. Love the Piano Concerto in G, adore L'Enfant et les Sortileges, often listen to Tombeau de Couperin, Ma Mere L'Oie, Rhapsodie Espagnole, Pavane, Valses Nobles, piano trio and a lot of the piano music.
But again I don't like the Left Hand PC and I can't take La Valse more than the odd listen. At times Ravel can be repetitive and over-emphatic for all his brilliance as an orchestrator.
Sorry the Left Hand PC doesn't grab you. I like it beginning to end. If you do Lp's, the Dela Rocha/Burgos on Decca/London is a fantastic performance and remarkable recording.
You don't like stories about nymphs?
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And Chloe too, for that matter.
I listened to the Cleveland/Szell LP in College, that orch was at its peak,
Marc Livshay and Robert Marcellus were Gods then.
Checkout Mozart #39 with them...
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