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"The Orchestre National de Lyon and conductor Leonard Slatkin give a characterful performance in this extremely enjoyable recording, which showcases Ravel's skill as an orchestrator." ****

Elinor Cooper - BBC Music magazine (Brief Notes section) - October 2016

Giuseppe Rossi - Musica magazine (Italy) - July/August 2016

Artistic Quality 8 Sound Quality 8

"The performances are all quite good: idiomatic and well-played ..."

David Hurwitz - ClassicsToday.com - July 2016

... The Danse, in its original version titled Tarantelle styrienne, is full of rhythmic tricksiness rather along the lines of Holst’s Mercury. The solo horn which leads is as nimble as you like and again in the middle section I enjoyed the oboe playing. The Lyon orchestra are completely on top of this very tricky piece."

Stephen Barber - MusicWeb-International.com - July 2016

"All the sections of the Lyon get a chance to strut their stuff in Ravel’s brilliantly scored orchestrations of Mussorgsky piano pieces that make them so memorable ..."

Phil Muse - Audio Video Club of Atlanta - June 2016

"... a precise and characterful rendition of Pictures, with particularly well-balanced and powerful brass playing in the “Catacombs” and “Great Gate of Kiev” sections."

Paul E Robinson - Musical Toronto - May 2016

Supersonic - Pizzicato

"...The coupling of Ravel’s Mussorgsky orchestration with those of works by Schumann, Debussy and Chabrier makes this a really interesting release. Slatkin’s conducting is inventive and the orchestral playing gorgeous..."

Remy Franck - Pizzicato magazine - May 2016

"...Maurice Ravel’s incomparable skill in orchestration is evident both in his own works and in his orchestrations of music by other composers. His versions of both Chabrier’s Menuet pompeux and Schumann’s Carnaval were commissions for ballet, while new life was given to his late friend Debussy’s Sarabande et Danse at the request of publisher Jean Jobert. Ravel’s iconic orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition vividly depicts scenes that range from the playful to the macabre..."

Lisa Flynn - WFMT (Chicago) - May 2016

"These are all delightful performances that play to the strengths of Slatkin and his Lyonnais collaborators ..." ****

James Manheim - AllMusic.com - May 2016

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