Simon Rattle, Berliner Philarmoniker - Maurice Ravel: L'Enfant et les Sortilèges; Ma Mère l'Oye (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 326 Mb | Total time: 72:58 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | 2 64197 2 | Recorded: 2008
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 326 Mb | Total time: 72:58 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | 2 64197 2 | Recorded: 2008
The conducting of Simon Rattle is the most compelling element in this recording of Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortilèges with the Berlin Philharmonic. Rattle draws playing of great delicacy and nuance from the orchestra, and the many sections that are scored as lightly as chamber music are played with especially loving attention to shaping the elegant and expressive phrases; the beginning of the second part of the opera is especially magical.