MAURICE RAVEL
Alborada del gracioso*
La Valse+
Shéhérazade+
Suzanne Danco, soprano
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
La Mer*
Petite suite (orch. Henri Büsser)+
L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande*
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire+
Ernest Ansermet
FIRST CD RELEASE ON DECCA OF ANSERMET’S 1947–48 RECORDINGS OF RAVEL AND DEBUSSY
Recording Producer: Victor Olof
Balance Engineers: Arthur Haddy (Alborada del gracioso, La Valse, La Mer); Kenneth Wilkinson (Shéhérazade, Petite Suite)
Recording Locations: Radio Studio, Geneva, Switzerland, 4 February 1947 (Alborada del gracioso, La Mer); Kingsway Hall, London, United Kingdom, 6 October 1947 (La Valse); La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris, France, 28 May 1948 (Shéhérazade); 1 June 1948 (Petite Suite)
Original Decca 78rpm Releases: K1609 (Alborada); K1867–68 (La Valse); K1966–67 (Shéhérazade); AK1606-8 (La Mer); AK2047–48 (Petite Suite
Remastering Engineers: Chris Bernauer; Mark Obert-Thorne (Alborada del gracioso, with special thanks to Michael Gartz for source material
Eloquence Series Producer: Cyrus Meher-Homji
Art Direction: Raymond Bannerman
Booklet Editor: Bruce Raggatt
‘An authoritative and sensitive reading… [notable for] its accuracy and fidelity of nuance.’ Gramophone (La Mer)
‘Some of the subtlest songs in the modern repertoire, marvellously interpreted and beautifully recorded.’ High Fidelity (Shéhérezade)