COMPOSERS: Ravel
LABELS: PentaTone
ALBUM TITLE: Ravel
WORKS: Le tombeau de Couperin; Ma mère l’oye; Valses nobles et sentimentales, etc
PERFORMER: Boston Symphony/Seiji Ozawa
CATALOGUE NO: PTC 5186 204 (hybrid CD/SACD) (1974)
Ozawa’s stylish and colourful Ravel sounds wonderful in remastered quadraphonic sound. Le tombeau de Couperin is genteel and poised, and the Boston winds excel in Ma mère l’oye. Christopher Dingle