Excellent Ravel. This so much praised album credits Tharaud as a great new French pianist, peer to Le Sage, Aimard, Amoyel, Angelich, Couteau or Bavouzet. A French (Angelich is almost French) generation of excellent artists for our century. About the rest, I totally agree with Paul Best. A sensitive and poetic Ravel. Only to add that about Gaspard de la Nuit, I also like a lot Pogorelich rendition, with his fantastic and characteristic piano sound.
Impeccable performance. The playing is slightly less free than Bavouzet's. As for what they call "natural echo", it is too deep and/or mic is too far away from the instrument. The recording sound does not fully convey the nuance and gloss of tone.
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