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ravel - bolero, la valse (33rpm lp)
[DECCSXL6065S]

24,42EUR

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MEDIUM Vinyl Record
AUDIOPHIL Yes
WEIGHT 180gr (black vinyl) 33rpm
CONDITION sealed
CONDITION RECORD M mint
COVER Standard
CONDITION COVER M mint
SERIALNUMBER No
BARCODE Yes
MISCELLANEOUS --

MUSICIANS

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet - conducting

MAURICE RAVEL (1875 - 1937)

boléro, ballet for orchestra
la valse, poème choréographique for orchestra

ARTHUR HONEGGER (1892 – 1955)

pacific 231, symphonic movement for orchestra (mouvement symphonique no. 1) h53

PAUL DUKAS (1865 – 1935)

the sorcerer's apprentice (l'apprenti sorcier)

REVIEW

Among the innumerable recordings of Maurice Ravel’s Boléro, the present one made by DECCA with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under Ernest Ansermet is of particular note

The impressive mounting crescendo over an ostinato bass, leading through the work from the very first bar right up to the last note, goes hand in hand with ever increasing intensity and excitement and hardly permits the listener to draw a breath

As in the Boléro, Ravel’s La Valse, a choreographed poem for orchestra composed in 1920, is based on a single rhythmic idea, the Viennese waltz, which lends the work increasing impetus throughout the course of the music

Although Arthur Honegger’s Pacific 231, composed in 1923 and dedicated to Ernest Ansermet, is more modern and has a more complex structure, here too a great arc of tension determines the progress of the music until shortly before the end

The orchestra accelerates in tempo and then decelerates - due to the motivic writing - towards the end thus evoking the sound of a locomotive: the Pacific 231 namely

The great success of the first performance of Paul Dukas’s L'Apprenti sorcier (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) in 1897, a scherzo composed in 1895 and based on a ballad by Goethe, certainly comes as no surprise when one listens to this recording by the OSR under Ansermet

The composition is filled with a wealth of surprising moments which are presented here with exactitude and subtlety in even the tiniest detail

RECORDING February 1963 at the Victoria Hall Geneva
MASTERING Roy Wallace
RE RELEASED August 1993
RE PRINTED April 1996
RE PRINTED June 2008
RATING 5 Stars out of 5
PRESSING Audiophil by Pallas Germany
SOUND Audiophil
MADE IN Germany
STYLE Classic / Orchestral Music / 20th – 21st Century Orchestral Music

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This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 16 June, 2002.

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