COMPOSERS: Ravel
LABELS: DRG
PERFORMER: Soloists, Orchestra/Georges Truc
CATALOGUE NO: 13113 AAD mono
Take the two lovers of an 18th-century Spanish señora, conceal them in a clock cabinet, set the whole comical fiasco to music of unprecedented delicacy; then record it under the auspices of the composer with a characterful line-up of performers, and you have the basis of a truly historic recording – funny, eloquent and atmospheric. The composer is of course Ravel, the work, his one-act opera L’heure espagnole and the conductor is Georges Truc.
