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Ravel: Complete Orchestral works - Martinon

EMI (Japan)  TOGE-15074/78 (5 discs)

Stereo Single Layer

Classical - Orchestral

Ravel: Orchestral works (complete)

Aldo Ciccolini, Itzhak Perlman
Orchestre de Paris
Jean Martinon

All

Recording

Analogue recording

Works (15)

• Maurice Ravel: Boléro - Ballet, M. 81
• Maurice Ravel: Concerto for Piano in G major, M. 83
• Maurice Ravel: Concerto for Piano Left Hand in D major, M. 82
• Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé - Ballet, M. 57
• Maurice Ravel: La valse - Ballet, M. 72
• Maurice Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin - arr. for Orchestra, M. 68a
• Maurice Ravel: Ma mère l'oye - Ballet, M. 62
• Maurice Ravel: Menuet antique arr. for Orchestra, M. 7
• Maurice Ravel: Miroirs arr. for Orchestra, M. 43 No. 3 Une barque sur l'océan
• Maurice Ravel: Miroirs arr. for Orchestra, M. 43 No. 4 Alborada del gracioso
• Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte arr. for Orchestra, M. 19
• Maurice Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole for Orchestra, M. 54
• Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade, Ouverture de féerie, M. 17
• Maurice Ravel: Tzigane arr. for Violin and Orchestra, M. 76
• Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales arr. for Orchestra, M. 61

Comments (1)

Comment by Mark Werlin - January 24, 2019 (1 of 1)

This 5-SACD set, mastered to DSD in 2012 for the Japanese collector market, went quickly out of print. Jean Martinon is considered one of the finest Ravel interpreters of the 20th century; Warner Music Group, which owns the EMI Classics catalog, would do well to reissue these transfers as hi-res downloads. The transfers have already been done and the files could be distributed in DSD 64 (DSF) or re-encoded to 192/24 or 96/24 (PCM) and licensed to download vendors. It's difficult to understand why the set remains unavailable.