Composer: Claude Achille Debussy, Maurice Ravel
Performer: Nobuyuki Tsujii, Neue Wiener Stimmen
Orchestra: Tonkünstler-Orchester
Conductor: Yutaka Sado
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Tonkunstler Orchestra
Catalogue: TON2010
Release: 2020
Size: 572 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
01. I. Allegramente
02. II. Adagio assai
03. III. Presto
04. Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
05. Ravel: Boléro
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
06. I. Lever du jour
07. II. Pantomime. Lent
08. III. Danse générale. Animé
Debussy: Suite bergamasque
09. Clair de lune
Yutaka Sado, the Japanese conductor who is Music Director of the Tonkunstler Orchestra, cherishes a special relationship with Maurice Ravel: “Ravel’s music has always held a central place in my heart and in my repertoire. Ravel had a deep affection for my motherland – and my professional conducting career began in his.” When Leonard Bernstein, who would later be Yutaka Sado’s teacher and mentor, introduced himself to the Viennese public as a soloist and conductor in 1948, he chose Ravel’s languidly jazzy Piano Concerto in G major. In this interpretation, recorded live in the Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein, the blind Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii plays the solo part. All the other works on this CD are also perfect examples of the many-faceted nature of Ravel’s oeuvre, including the incomparable “Bolero” – recorded under studio conditions in the outstanding acoustics of the Grafenegg Auditorium.
