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www.bbcmusicmagazine.com
Ravel CD nominated for the BBC Music Awards 2007


“... You tell your musicians to find instruments whose sounds Ravel would have recognised, you borrow a 1905 Erard piano for the left-hand concerto, you respect Ravel’s intentions in La Valse and Boléro, and you get a fascinating reminder of early 20th-century timbres. As Jos van Immerseel points out, Ravel is as distant in time from us as Mozart was from Tchaikovsky. …“
By Andrew McGregor


BBC Music Magazine
October 2007


"The sultry, sensuous atmosphere of Anima Eterna’s performance of Boléro puts the lie to Ravel’s quip that it was ‘a piece for orchestra, without music’. On this outstanding disc Ravel’s shimmering orchestration builds to a climax challenged, perhaps, only by his tribute to Vienna, La Valse. The ‘lefthand’ concerto sounds as never before when played on a 1905 Erard piano, more so as the orchestral winds and strings respect the norms of Ravel’s own time (as distant to us today as was Mozart from Tchaikovsky!) both in terms of their construction and performance technique. This is an astonishing disc by any standards."


Fono Forum - Empfehlung des Monats
Dezember 2006


"Ich hätte mir nicht vorstellen können, den ‘Bolero’ noch einmal ganz durchzuhören, bevor ich Immerseels neues Album in den CD-Player einlegte, um dann eine Stunde lang wie gebannt in völlig neue Klangwelten einzutauchen. (...) Hier gibt der sonst so konservativ-seriöse Kritiker seine Zurückhaltung auf: Geil, einfach nur geil'(...)."


Bayern 4 Klassik
Oktober 2006


"So authentisch, so spannend, so märchenhaft-verzaubert und choreographisch-präzis hat man Ravels Meisterwerke wohl noch nie auf Schallplatten erleben können."


Toccata - CD des Monats
November 2006


“Halluzinogen ist die Aufnahme, die Jos van Immerseel hier vorlegt."


Musikansich
September 2006


"Diesen Bolero vergisst man einfach nicht mehr. Immerseel ist es mit dieser CD einmal mehr gelungen, scheinbar bekanntem Repertoire neue Seiten abzugewinnen und Perspektiven zu eröffnen, die erst die tatsächliche Bedeutung dieser Stücke erkennen lassen und ein ganz anderes, ungleich größeres Hörvergnügen ermöglichen."


Rheinische Post
September 2006


"Der Hörer vernimmt Klänge und Strukturen, die er so hell und funkelnd lange nicht erlebt hat."


Saarländischer Rundfunk
August 2006


"Diese CD besticht in ihren ungehörten Schattierungen. So wurden die schillernden Farben Ravels bis dato kaum aufgeschlossen; vor allem die rhythmische Komponente der Musik - etwa des Konzerts für die linke Hand - ist akribisch ausgearbeitet und entfaltet damit eine faszinierende Kraft."


Customer review on amazon.co.uk
6 July 2008


(...). The individual instruments, including a wonderfully seedy tenor sax, make this an ear-prickling experience. All the wind instruments, and the celesta and other percussion instruments, are from the period contemporaneous with Ravel's own life. Wonderful! If you have other recordings of this music then this disc will make you hear the music afresh. If you don't then I honestly suggest that you buy this disc and don't worry too much about even the "classic" performances by Monteux, Munch, Paray and so on. There is not a weak performance on the disc and two of them, the Concerto and La Valse, have claims to be the very best on record so far. A disc to buy whilst it is still available and treasure when bought!
By Colin Fortune (Birmingham, UK)


"Revelatory interpretations and rich recording! This is a magnificent disc of some of the most popular Ravel orchestral music, coupled with the lesser known (because difficult to perform) Concerto for Left Hand. Straight away it needs to be said that "authentic instrument" does NOT equal weak and thin sound; on the contrary, this is one of the richest recorded Ravel compilations I have ever heard, coupled with a sharp detail for all the shades of instrumental colouring that makes Ravel's music so endlessly fascinating. The Concerto with the 1906 Erard piano is quite astoundingly good, and the great surprise of the disc was a riveting performance of Bolero (...)." From a customer review by Colin Fortune (Birmingham, UK) on amazon.co.uk

Maurice Ravel

Bolero, Pavane pour une infante défunte – La Valse – Concerto pour la main gauche – Rapsodie espagnole
ZZT 060901 | 1 CD  |  published on 1 September 2006  | buy this cd  |  read the booklet

 

 

tracklist

 

1. Bolero 16:53
2. Pavane pour une infante défunte 6:03
3. Concerto pour la main gauche  20:51
soloist: Claire Chevallier (fortepiano Erard 1905)

 

Rhapsodie espagnole:
4. Prélude à la nuit  4:12
5. Malagueña  2:08

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6. Habanera  2:40
7. Feria  6:36

 

8. La Valse 12:10

 

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