Maurice Ravel - Orchestral Works (Charles Dutoit)

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Composer: Maurice Ravel

CD1

• Boléro
• Alborada del gracioso
• Ma mère l'oye, ballet
• Une barque sur l'océan
• Rapsodie espagnole

CD2

• La Valse
• Pavane pour une infante défunte
• Le tombeau de Couperin
• Valses nobles et sentimentales
• Menuet antique
• Fanfare from "L'Eventail de Jeanne"
• Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2

Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal

Charles Dutoit, conductor

Date: 1980-1983 / 1999

Label: Decca

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Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy. Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended the Paris Conservatoire. After leaving the conservatoire, he found his own way as a composer, developing a style of great clarity and incorporating elements of modernism, baroque, neoclassicism and, in his later works, jazz. Among his works to enter the repertoire are pieces for piano, chamber music, two piano concertos, ballet music, two operas and eight song cycles.

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Charles Dutoit (born October 7, 1936) is a Swiss conductor. Born in Lausanne, he studied there, and graduated from the Conservatoire de musique de Genève. Dutoit began his professional music career in 1957 as a viola player and made his debut as a professional conductor in 1959. He was chief conductor of the Bern Symphony Orchestra (1968–1978) and the Gothenburg Symphony (1976–1979). In 1977, Dutoit became the artistic director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and hold this position until 2002. From 2009 to 2018, he was principal conductor and artistic director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

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