L'enfant et les sortilèges & Shéhérazade

Description

Album featuring all new recordings of Ravel. Seiji Ozawa, one of the greatest conductors in the world, celebrates his 80th birthday in September 2015. For the occasion, this album featuring all new recordings of Ravel thus showcases one of the composers he has been most associated with throughout his long career. Seiji Ozawa studied with two of the greatest interpreters of Ravel of the 20th century, Charles Munch and Pierre Monteux. In the 1970s, he recorded what became a true reference: the complete orchestral works for DG with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (establishing the 29-year record of work with the orchestra). These new live recordings come from the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan with world-renowned soloists - American mezzos Isabel Leonard in L'Enfant et les Sortilèges and Susan Graham in Shéhérazade - and an orchestra bringing together the best musicians in the world, from Berlin, Vienna, Boston, Cleveland, New York, and Philadelphia. One of the performances was given in the presence of the Emperor and Empress of Japan who traveled to the city of Matsumoto especially for the occasion.