It's a very good recording of both concertos, but not my favourites. Rattle does very well and I admire greatly his work with the CBSO.ravel30 wrote:Cool!!!! How is that recording Darren? Do you think that the conducting of Rattle is good on that recording? I always thought that he was a great conductor. At least not as bad as you know who proclaims. Ravel is in my top 5 favorite composers (thus my nick) and I always thought that I should get at least 2 more recording of the two piano concertos. Suggestions anybody?bombasticDarren wrote:Ravel - Piano Concerto in G major (Cecile Ousset/Simon Rattle, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, EMI)
As for Le tombeau de Couperin, I could never have enough recordings of that beautiful work.
I have many recordings of the concertos to recommend, but for the sake of space I will highlight only half a dozen:-
Jean Efflam Bavouzet/Yan Pascal Tortelier
Zoltan Kocsic/Ivan Fischer
Philip Fowke/Serge Baudo
Anne Queffelec/Armin Jordan/Alain Lombard
Samson Francois/Andre Cluytens
Krystian Zimerman/Pierre Boulez
I am pleased to see another Ravel afficionado here!