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Ravel: Suite No. 2 from Dapnis et Chloe; Pavane pour une infante defunte; La Valse; Ma Mere l'Oye; Bolero.(Sound Recording Review)
Ravel: Suite No. 2 from Dapnis et Chloe; Pavane pour une infante defunte; La Valse; Ma Mere l'Oye; Bolero. Paavo Jarvi, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Telarc CD-80601.
The music of Maurice Ravel is among the most poetic, imaginative, impressionistic ever written. It has the capacity to touch one's soul as well as stir one's blood. Unfortunately, while I found Telarc's sound among the best afforded this composer, I was largely unmoved by maestro Jarvi's interpretations.
Things begin with the Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2, which gets off to so quiet a start I wondered if my equipment was faulty. Then I realized that the output level of the disc was lower than usual, and I turned up the sound. Yet despite Jarvi's delicate touch and lyrical vision of the work, plus Telarc's patented big bass drum and deep low-end, none of the reading struck me as unusually inspired so much as unusually slow. The Pavane pour une infante defunte, on the other hand, appeared to move along at too brisk and lighthearted a pace to convey as much of the piece's solemnity as I thought it should. Nevertheless, I can easily understand how other listeners might find both the Pavane and the Daphnis performances sensitive and moving. La Valse fared better for me, though, nicely capturing the baleful irony of Ravel's anti-waltz. I liked it a lot, and if it weren't for the price of the disc ...
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