Ravel's The Orchestral Works: Seiji Ozawa: Boston Symphony Orchestra Reissued as Part of the Original Source Series on Numbered Limited Edition 180g 4LP Box Set. Pure Analogue Mix & Cut from the Original Tapes at Emil Berliner Studios. Pressed at Optimal.
To mark the 150th anniversary of Maurice Ravel's birth, this 4-LP box set presents the composer's orchestral works in magnificent sound. In the 1970s, the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) was a top-class ensemble that had enjoyed a reputation as America's most important "French" orchestra since the days of Serge Koussevitzky and Charles Munch. Seiji Ozawa was music director of the BSO from 1973 to 2002, and these Ravel recordings, made at the very beginning of the maestro's tenure in Boston, are among the finest results of their collaboration.
The audiophile vinyl series The Original Source presents outstanding recordings from the 1970s in a completely new sound quality. The renowned Emil Berliner Studios have remastered and edited the original four- and eight-track tapes in 100% analog quality (AAA) using technologies specially developed for the production of the series. The sound differences to the original releases are considerable: greater clarity, more subtleties and improvements in the frequency response, as well as less background noise, distortion and compression enable an audiophile listening experience like never before.
The copies of this series are published in limited and numbered quantities on 180g vinyl records and in a deluxe gatefold edition with original covers and lyrics, accompanied by additional photos and facsimiles of the recording protocols and tape boxes.
- Original Source Series from Deutsche Grammophon
- 180g Vinyl 4LP Box Set
- Pure analogue mix & cut from the original tapes at Emil Berliner Studios
- Manufactured at Optimal
- Deluxe gatefold packaging with original cover and lyrics
LP 1 Side A:
- Bolero, M. 81
- Prelude to the Night [Spanish Rhapsody, M.54]
- Malagueña [Spanish Rhapsody, M.54]
LP 1 Side B:
- Habanera [Spanish Rhapsody, M.54]
- Feria [Spanish Rhapsody, M.54]
- The Waltz, M.72
LP 2 Side A:
- Prelude [Mother Goose, M.60]
- Spinning Wheel Dance and Scene - Interlude [Ma mère l'oye, M.60]
- Pavane from Sleeping Beauty [Mother Goose, M.60]
- The Conversations of Beauty and the Beast [Mother Goose, M.60]
- Little Thumb [Mother Goose, M.60]
- Laideronnette, Empress of the Pagodas [My Mother Goose, M.60]
- Apotheosis: The Fairy Garden [Mother Goose, M.60]
LP 2 Side B:
- Menuet antique - For Orchestra, M. 7
- Prelude [The Tomb of Couperin, M.68]
- Forlane [The Tomb of Couperin, M.68]
- Minuet [The Tomb of Couperin, M.68]
- Rigaudon [The Tomb of Couperin, M.68]
LP 3 Side A:
- Introduction - Slow - Very moderate [Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57 / First part]
- Religious Dance - Moderate [Daphnis and Chloe, M. 57 / Part One]
- Scene - A little slower [Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57 / Part One]
- Scene - The young girls dance - Vif, Pt. 1 [Daphnis and Chloe, M. 57 / First part]
- Scene - The young girls dance - Vif, Pt. 2 [Daphnis and Chloe, M. 57 / Part One]
- Scene - General Dance [Daphnis and Chloe, M. 57 / First part]
- Scene - Lively - More moderate - Very moderate - Heavy [Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57 / First part]
- Light and graceful dance of Daphnis - Quite slow - Lively - Lively [Daphnis and Chloe, M. 57 / First part]
- Scene - Slow - Less slow - Very free [Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57 / First part]
- Scene - Dance of Lyceion - Scene (The Pirates) [Daphnis and Chloe, M. 57 / Part One]
- Scene - Moderately lively - Very lively - Slow - Very agitated [Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57 / Part One]
- Scene - Moderate - Slower [Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57 / Part One]
- Scene - Slow and mysterious dance [Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57 / Part One]
LP 3 Side B:
- Scene - Same movement [Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57 / Second part]
- War Dance [Daphnis and Chloe, M. 57 / Part Two]
- Scene - A little less lively [Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57 / Second part]
- Scene - Chloe's supplicant dance [Daphnis and Chloe, M. 57 / Part Two]
- Scene - Quite lively [Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57 / Second part]
- Scene - Slow - More animated [Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57 / Second part]
- Sunrise - Scene [Daphnis and Chloe, M. 57 / Part Three]
- Daphnis and Chloe mime the adventure of Pan and Syrinx [Daphnis and Chloe, M. 57 / Part Three]
- Scene - Very slow [Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57 / Third part]
- Scene - Slow - Lively - Slow - Lively [Daphnis and Chloe, M. 57 / Part Three]
- General Dance [Daphnis and Chloe, M. 57 / Part Three]
LP 4 Side A:
- Moderate - very frank [Noble and sentimental waltzes, M.61]
- Quite slow - with intense expression [Valses nobles et sentimentales, M.61]
- Moderate [Noble and sentimental waltzes, M.61]
- Quite lively [Noble and sentimental waltzes, M.61]
- Almost slow - in an intimate feeling [Valses nobles et sentimentales, M.61]
- Quite lively [Noble and sentimental waltzes, M.61]
- Less lively [Noble and sentimental waltzes, M.61]
- Epilogue (Slow) [Noble and sentimental waltzes, M.61]
- A boat on the ocean [Miroirs, M.43 - Orch. Ravel]
LP 4 Side B:
- Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Infanta, M. 19
- The Dawn of the Gracious One, M. 43 - Orchestral Versi
