Ravel: Orchestral Works From Chandos Available To Stream On Idagio
Ravel: Orchestral Works (Chandos, 2022), a sumptuous treasury of music is now available on Idagio, the Berlin based subscription streaming service. It is performed by the Sinfonia of London conducted by John Wilson led by Andrew Haveron, well known to Sydney audiences as Co-Concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Charlie Lovell-Jones.
The 19 tracks were recorded in London in January 2020 and August/Septemver 2021. They comprise Mother Goose Ballet Suite, La Valse, Alborada del Gracioso for Orchestra, Pavane for a dead infant, Valses nobles et sentimentales andBoléro, amounting to over 80 minutes of music with extensive musicological notes in English, French and German in the accompanying booklet which features a striking cover, Abstract Composition (1934) by Jean Hélion (1904–1987).