Ravel: Sheherazade / Berlioz: Les Nuits d'ete / with a recital of French songs (rec 1963)

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MAURICE RAVEL / HECTOR BERLIOZ
Ravel: Sheherazade / Berlioz: Les Nuits d'ete / with a recital of French songs (rec 1963)
Regine Crespin (soprano) / Suisse Romande Orchestra / Ernest Ansermet

[ Decca Originals / CD ]

Release Date: Sunday 20 August 2006

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"Crespin is right inside these songs and ravel's magically sensuous music emerges with striking spontaneity. She is superbly supported by Ansermet who, aided by the Decca engineers, weaves a fine tonal web round the voice."
(Penguin Guide Rosette)

Tracks:

BERLIOZ: Les Nuits d'été
RAVEL:
Shéhérazade
DEBUSSY:
Trois Chansons de Bilitis
POULENC:
Chanson d'Orkenise (Banalités)
Hôtel (Banalités)
Le Carafon (La Courte Paille)
La Reine de coeur (La Courte Paille)
Les gars qui vont à la fête (Chansons villageoises)
'C'
Fêtes galantes (Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon)