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Though Boulez and Aimard both have reputations for efficient, no-nonsense approaches, their performances of both the Ravel concertos (reviewed above) are consistently slower than Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's with the BBC Symphony and Yan Pascal Tortelier.
Ravel: The Piano Concertos; Debussy: Fantaisie; etc – review Andrew Clements 2010
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Not everyone appreciates Debussy's early piano-concerto-like "Fantasie," but Bavouzet does, and he and Tortelier make an eminently convincing case for it on this strong and very French disk, which traces a jazz influence from Debussy through swinging performances of both Ravel concertos.
Best of 2010: Classical music Anne Midgette 2010
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Tortelier above decided instead to string together five long segments from the play and they were performed with such style and commitment that I remembered why Bizet is overplayed in the first place.
Archive 2009-04-01 sfmike 2009
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Tortelier above decided instead to string together five long segments from the play and they were performed with such style and commitment that I remembered why Bizet is overplayed in the first place.
France and Britain Together at The Symphony sfmike 2009
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The first two movements seemed to meander all over the place, but the piece comes together in the linked final movements where conductor Tortelier just about jumped off the podium in excitement.
Archive 2009-04-01 sfmike 2009
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The first two movements seemed to meander all over the place, but the piece comes together in the linked final movements where conductor Tortelier just about jumped off the podium in excitement.
France and Britain Together at The Symphony sfmike 2009
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A longtime colleague and worshiper of Casals, Tortelier was filmed in July 1990, playing the Suites in the 10th-century Catalan Benedictine abbey of St. Michel de Cuxa, Prades, the site of a Casals music festival.
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When Tortelier was preparing for those concerts, he found time to grant me a phone interview from his home in Nice.
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Yet no musician in our time has surpassed the voice of nature, the play of waves, light and shadow, that Tortelier incarnated.
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The Tortelier is so joyful and for me an extension of his voice and the playfulness of his charcter.
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