Bolero

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Total Tracks: 12   Total Length: 63:36

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Rod Smith

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04.22.11
A little something for the erotomaniacs in the audience.
2005 | Label: haenssler CLASSIC

A dedicated erotomaniac could do far worse than to download eMusic's entire Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) collection. Everything dude touched turned to sex — even the deceptively-titled Ma Mère l'Oye (Mother Goose). Like most of the other works on this all-Ravel romp from Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, that ballet radiates subtle sensuality. While Sir Neville offers a nuanced reading of the notoriously torrid title track — essentially one big, gloriously extended crescendo — its delicacy is strictly relative to lesser, bombast-littered renditions.

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It'll Do

OboePlayer

I think this CD is rather subdued. It sounds a little too precious sometimes to this ear. The rhythm of the grace notes at the beginning of Tombeau isn't quite right; they are being played too close to triplets. I thought a few of the Mother Goose movements were a tad on the slow side, as was the Rigaudon. (I think if I could have given 3 1/2 stars that would have been more accurate.)

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A Little Brassy

Rodenstein

I've been searching for a Bolero that has no tape hiss. Downloaded this one because of the date to see if it was a good recording. The recording is ok starts a little too quiet to be heard at normal volume, but that is the nature of the piece. I didn't like the brassy treatment done in Bolero, it gave it more of a pops feel than classical, however it is an interesting version of it. It is annoying that Bolero gets lumped into "Booty-Call" lists, only an idiot needs music to enhance such moments, and a worse idiot is that one who follows a stupid list.

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