When we receive new releases, we usually sort them out with a “first look”. This had been ruled out. But after the concert of critical dithyrambs, going as far as New York Times (THE Times interested in La Dolce Volta, now!), we had to look into it. Everyone is talking about Gaspard of the night. Terrific, certainly. But there are others and… it’s complete: 2 hours 23 minutes of music! How can we not hear, then, that the major fact of these 143 minutes is not Gaspard, Bianconi or Ravel, but the dry and close sound vision of a Steinway D-274 imposed by soundman François Eckert? This is what we admire, accept or reject (as in our case). There are fanatics of this type of clinical capture of the piano which reconnects with the aesthetic of Georges Kisselhoff, with Calliope, in the 1970s (Debussy-Paraskivesco genre). At the time, the world was going crazy over it. For them, this info: Bianconi is great. But as Ravel asks to breathe in a space, we stay with Osborne (Hyperion).
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