Unsung Composers

The Music => Composers & Music => Topic started by: alberto on Saturday 29 October 2011, 14:11

Title: Ravel/Y.P.Tortelier "Symphony"
Post by: alberto on Saturday 29 October 2011, 14:11
It is the magnificent Piano Trio orchestrated by Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos 9114, year 1992 release). In the booklet the conductor/composer defends (rightly in his way) his work with several reasons. But the result appears, IMMO, in comparison to the exalting original masterpiece, not really convincing, and diminutive. The work, in new shape, sounds "lightweight" (not so the original).
(By the way, is much better, according to me, the orchestration by Marius Constant of "Gaspard de la Nuit"-an apparently impossible task).
Has anybody different impressions?