Ravel: L’enfant et les sortileges, Nashville (CD)

[[Description]]“Ravel brilliantly balances raucous humor with heartfelt tenderness, and any production or recording needs to be able to convey both his caricatures and the sublime. This engaging account from Nashville successfully negotiates this balancing act.” — BBC Music MagazineSetting a charming text by Colette, Ravel’s richly scored opera L’enfant et les sortileges (The Child and the Spells) is a lyric fantasy whose cast includes fairy tale characters, crockery, plants and little animals which come to life to chastise the child who has been tormenting them. However, all ends happily when the child learns compassion. Paired with L’enfant is his ravishing and enduringly popular song cycle, Shéhérazade.[[Contents]]Ravel L’enfant et les sortileges (The Child and the Spells)Alastair Willis conductorJulie Boulianne The ChildGeneviève Després The Mother (represented by a huge skirt), The Dragonfly, The SquirrelKirsten Gunlogson A Broken China Cup, A Shepherd, The CatPhilippe Castagner T