Going back to Ravel ...

[Osborn]

Wha'evva: you will be doing yourself a huge favour, Ossy, if you get to know both works ASAP.

Thanks for that; I love Debussy's piano music anyway so a Ravel/Debussy pairing of these works is now my No. 1 for xmas! Exciting & unexpected really.

[Panjandrum]

This reminds me of a few weeks ago at work when I had separate e-mails from two different people with exactly the same name and sent at precisely rhe same time.

Are you sure one wasn't sent from their hotmail and the other from their work email?

[amateur51]

This reminds me of a few weeks ago at work when I had separate e-mails from two different people with exactly the same name and sent at precisely rhe same time.

Anyway, going back to Ravel...my absolute favourite piece is the complete Daphnis et Chloe. Have many recordings but wouldn't want to be without Boston SO/Munch, LSO/Monteux or BPO/Boulez. Next year (June 8) sees the centenary of the first performance.

As for Bolero and La Valse I love them! What's the problem?

Seconded, Petrushka!

[Serial_Apologist]

S_A please tell us you didn't write your second para completely independently of barber??? You went back and copied it over, right?

Otherwise: too weird

My message was an ironic observation on the fact that the respondent to #39 had either clearly not seen #40 or was being supercilious.

[barber olly]

This reminds me of a few weeks ago at work when I had separate e-mails from two different people with exactly the same name and sent at precisely rhe same time.

Anyway, going back to Ravel...my absolute favourite piece is the complete Daphnis et Chloe. Have many recordings but wouldn't want to be without Boston SO/Munch, LSO/Monteux or BPO/Boulez. Next year (June 8) sees the centenary of the first performance.

As for Bolero and La Valse I love them! What's the problem?

I love La valse and dislike Bolero quite a lot. No problem!

[Petrushka]

Are you sure one wasn't sent from their hotmail and the other from their work email?

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Pretty sure, yes. They were from two entirely unrelated companies on two different subjects.

[Barbirollians]

Then again having heard the wild and wonderful Boston SO/Munch recordings of Bolero and La Valse tonight - I was pleased to hear both works again - a fast and then faster Bolero and a frenzied La Valse indeed.

[Bryn]

Then again having heard the wild and wonderful Boston SO/Munch recordings of Bolero and La Valse tonight - I was pleased to hear both works again - a fast and then faster Bolero and a frenzied La Valse indeed.

Where in the score is there even a hint of-accelerando? Ravel's own recording actually gradually drops in tempo.

[Barbirollians]

Where in the score is there even a hint of-accelerando? Ravel's own recording actually gradually drops in tempo.

No idea but it is a very exciting recording and the complete opposite of routine.

I see from Gramophone that Lionel Salter hated them in 1959 and Jonathan Swain loved them in 1994.