RAVEL INTÉGRALE / MAURICE RAVEL: THE COMPLETE ORCHESTRAL WORKS
RAVEL: L'OEUVRE POUR ORCHESTRE
SQURE WITH CD 31, rec. 1957
disc 1: Boléro, Rapsodie espagnole, La Valse
disc 2: Daphnis et Chloe (complete)
disc 3. Ma Mère l'Oye, Valses nobles et sentimentales
disc 4: Le Tombeau de Couperin, Menuet antique, Alborada del gracioso, Une Barque sur l'ocean, Pavane pour une infante défunte
NOTE: This central contribution of Andre' Cluytens and the Conservatoire orchestra was issued in a number of different configurations with the original cover of a blue-costmed female dancer.The four discs in the set are given different orders: Daphis et Chloe is alternatively disc / vol. I, 2, or 3 in the set.
André Cluytens, conductor. Also Marcel Galiègue, trombone (Boléro); Lucien Thévet, horn (Pavane); Robert Casier, oboe (Tombeau); Chœurs René Duclos (Daphnis)
DESCRIPTION: 4 discs, 33 1/3 rpm, microgroove, stereo, manual sequence, 12 in.
NOTES: Recorded 19-20 and 25 April 1961, 27-30 October 1961; 27 November 1961 (Boléro) and April 1962 (Rapsodie); 1, 4, 6-8 June and August 1962 (Daphnis); 26-27 September 1962 (Tombeau, Pavane), 2-3 October 1962 (id.), Salle Wagram. Producer: René Challan, producer; Balance Engineer: Walter Ruhlmann. (Columbia SAX 2476). Issued both as set and individually.
Columbia fr. FCX 951-954 (mono); SAXF 951-954 stereo (2 vols. of 2 discs). 1963. @Discogs
Separate issues:
Disc 1: Columbia fr. FCX 913 mono; SAXF 231 stereo (d. l. March 1962)
Disc 2 (Daphnis): Columbia fr. FCX 934 mono; SAXF 251 stereo. Matrix nos. YLX 1005 - YLX 1006
= Columbia SAX 2476, April 1963
Disc 3: Columbia fr. FCX 933 mono; SAXF 250 stereo (d. l. October 1962)
Disc 3 exists as Columbia 33FCX 953 (copy BnF).
Disc 4: Columbia fr. FCX 947 mono; SAXF 947 stereo.
= Angel set 3636D (D-3636) (36108-11) mono; S 3636D (S 36108-11) stereo. Matrix numbers (mono) (36108): XLX-X-953, XLX-X-954 (label; both sides etched + -G2); (36109): XLX-X-990 (label; etched + -F1), XLX-X-991 (label; etched + -H4); (36110): XLX-X-988 (etched + -G2), XLX-X-989 (etched + -F1); (36111): XLX-X-1006 (etched + -G2), XLX-X-1007 (etched + -F1). Program notes transl. from the French of Maurice Delage and Jean Cotté, [4] pp., inserted in slipcase. 1963.
Angel separate issues as SD3636 1 to 4 (36108 to 36111).
= German edition, Ravel: Das Orchesterwerk, vols 1-4, Columbia C 80762-80765 (mono); STC 80762-80765 (stereo). White-gold label.
VSM 15552723 (4 discs)
Boléro, Pavane issued as MFP, CFP (Music for Pleasure, Classics for Pleasure) 40036.
LP vinyl republication: Ravel: Complete Orchestral Works. Testament Audiophile LP EMI SAX 2476-2479 (4 LP discs). 2000.
CDs:
CD: all, as EMI CMS 7 69165 2 (PM 518). (2 CDs). Digitally remastered 1987. 1987.
CD: all, as Ravel: Bolero, etc. EMI Classics (series Rouge et Noir) CZS 767897 2 (2 CDs)
CD Rapsodie espagnole, in Viva España!, EMI CZS 7 67474 2 (Germany 567, France PM 518, US CDZB 67474): disc 2, tr. 5-8. 1992.
CD: Daphnis (complete) in André Cluytens: Ravel . . . / Franck, etc.. as CD: Testament SBT 1128, tr. 1-18. With Franck: Psyché suite (Cluytens, 1954, q. v.). Note by Robert Layton. 1998.
In André Cluytens: The Complete Orchestra and Concerto Recordings, 65 CDs Erato 0190295886691 (2017), CD 53 (=disc 1): Bolero, La Valse, Rapsodie Espagnoes, CD 54 (=disc 3) : Ma Mere l'oye, Valses Nobles et Sentimentals; CD 55 (=disc 2: Daphnis et Chloé complete; CD 56 (=Disc 4: Tombeau, Men uet antique, Alborada del G, Une Barqoue Sur l'ocean, Pavane pour une infante defunte., tr.
André Cluytens: Complete Stereo Orchestral Recordings, 1957-1966, 245 tracks, tr. 107 (Bolero), 108 La Valse, 109-12 (Rapsodie), 113-19; Valses n and s 120-127, Daphnis 128-145, Tombeau 146-149, Menuet 150, Miroirs Alborada 151, Miroirs Barque-152, Pavane (153. -000.
BnF Musique Classique BNF Collection 2016 (Daphnis only) 1963
BnF Musique Classique BNF Collection 2013 19162 (disc 3) 1962
BnF Musique Classique BNF Collection 2013 1962 (disc 1)
Habanera from Raps. esp. In Il était une fois André Cluytens, 68 tracks Erato (2025) tr. 4
STREAMING / DOWNLOAD:
Le Jardin fe'erique from Ma myere: in In Il était une fois André Cluytens, 68 tracks Erato (2025) tr. 22; Forlan from Tombeau, tr. 34; Bolero in In Il était une fois André Cluytens, 68 tracks Erato (2025) tr. 65
INDEX: 1961-04-19