Search - Wayne State University Women's Glee Club, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel :: Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe Suite No.2; Bolero; Valses nobles et sentimentales / Debussy: Three Nocturnes for Orchestra; Petite Suite

Ravel and Debussy interpretation at best...

Murat Ozkoyuncu | ANKARA Turkey | 12/18/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The collector who owned Paray's other recordings of French impressionists, they should buy this one. Just try the opening of daphnis and chloe suite; and see how a Ravel performance should sounds; superb controlling of woodwinds that caches score's pulse and heart but without losing atmosphere and magic, and I should confess I did not hear any similar precision from ANY modern performance... Another revelation comes from Debbussy Noctures, women's choir really sounds like sea waves, like painting a sea picture with sirenes. I should recommend to this recording every music lover who knows the value of a great performance."

I love this CD!

abigmusicfan | Seattle, WA USA | 02/28/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Other versions of the second Daphnis et Chloe suite sound stale and mushy when compared with this one. Paray's texture is lean and precise, enhancing the structure and details of the music rather than the usual impressionistic wash of sound. I don't mean that it's not evocative; in fact, listening to Daybreak is stunningly like watching a summer sunrise. You can hear the birds and feel the first breezes stirring. I program it to wake me up every morning - truly a great start to the day."

Let me jump in with friends here

abigmusicfan | 07/19/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"After years and years of listening to Ravel and Debussy, there has been no practitioner I've experienced who really knows about them like Paul Paray did. The utter precision, the elegance, polish, finish and spontaneity all bow below a nearly divine interpretative insight so breathtaking that it becomes part of the listener's own, dearly-held artistic values. I think my colleagues here have experienced the same thing from Paray, and indeed, this disk is as fine an example of his art as any he did.It's hard to put an adequate description to Paray's accomplishments without having it fade into the academic; no one knows what it was that he did to imbue his recorded and concert work with such luminescence and thrilling sense of occasion. And it's no wonder he is now a world cult figure, a maestro among maestri.Do yourself a favor, buy this disk and join those of us who have been transformed by the art of Paul Paray and have been forever rewarded by its greatness...and not only in Ravel and Debussy, but everything he attempted."