Ravel
Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended France's premier music college, the Pari...
DEBUSSY Jeux
DEBUSSY Images: Gigues
DEBUSSY Images: Ibéria
DEBUSSY Six épigraphes antiques (arr. Ansermet)
RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2
RAVEL La Valse
RAVEL Rapsodie Espagnole
CHABRIER España
HONEGGER Horace Victorieux
MARTIN Petite Symphonie concertante
Live broadcast recordings, 1948-50
Total duration: 2hr 32:56
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Ernest Ansermet
DEBUSSY La Mer
RAVEL La Valse
MUSSORGSKY/RAVEL Pictures at an Exhibition
Recorded in 1951 & 1953
Total duration: 67:41
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
conductor Ernest Ansermet
BLITZSTEIN Airborne Symphony
GILLIS Motor Perpetuo
RAVEL Piano Concerto in G
Live broadcast performances, 1946
Total duration: 74:20
Charles Holland, tenor
Walter Scheff, baritone
Marc Blitzstein, The Monitor (narrator)
Leonard Bernstein, piano
NBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
conducted by Leonard Bernstein
RAVEL String Quartet in F major (1902)
DEBUSSY String Quartet in G minor (1893)
Recorded 1940, Liederkranz Hall, New York
Total duration: 54:11
The Budapest Quartet
STRAVINSKY Jeu de Cartes
BETTINELLI Invenzione No. 1
HINDEMITH Konzertmusik für Streichorchester und Blechbläser
RAVEL La Valse
Recorded 1949-54
Total duration: 59:45
Boston Symphony Orchestra
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Guido Cantelli
BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 and 5
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1; Alto Rhapsody
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 21
HAYDN Symphony No. 93
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4
VIVALDI L'Estro Armonico: Concerto Grosso No. 11 in D minor, RV565 (1955 and 1956 performances)
RAVEL Pavane pour une infante défunte
FALLA El Sombrero des Tres Picos, Suite No. 2
PISTON Toccata
COPLAND El Salón México
R. STRAUSS Don Juan
CRESTON Dance Overture
WAGNER Parsifal – Good Friday Spell
VERDI Te Deum
MONTEVERDI Magnificat (arr. Ghedini)
HANDEL Xerxes – Largo
HINDEMITH Concert Music for Strings and Brass
Six live CBS broadcast concerts, Carnegie Hall, New York, 6 March 1955–8 April 1956
Total duration: 7:06:07, including radio commentary by Jim Fassett
New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Guido Cantelli
Walter Gieseking, piano (Mozart No. 21; Beethoven No. 5)
Rudolf Firkušný, piano (Beethoven No. 3; Brahms No. 1)
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano (Beethoven No. 4)
Martha Lipton, alto
Westminster Choir, directed by John Finley Williamson