Maurice Ravel's short comic opera L'heure espagnole, has at last found a secure niche in the repertoire, due to the greater exposure of the work since the 1990s. Yet at the time of Peter Maag's live broadcast for RadioTelevisione Italiana in 1962, recordings of L'heure espagnole were scarce, and this parodistic work was performed with even less frequency than Ravel's fairy tale opera, L'enfant et les sortilèges. Maag was not an ardent admirer of Ravel, and his performance here is only efficient and professional, and quite ...
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Maurice Ravel's short comic opera L'heure espagnole, has at last found a secure niche in the repertoire, due to the greater exposure of the work since the 1990s. Yet at the time of Peter Maag's live broadcast for RadioTelevisione Italiana in 1962, recordings of L'heure espagnole were scarce, and this parodistic work was performed with even less frequency than Ravel's fairy tale opera, L'enfant et les sortilèges. Maag was not an ardent admirer of Ravel, and his performance here is only efficient and professional, and quite dependent on the expertise of the brilliant cast for its appeal. Such stars of French opera as Eric Tappy (Torquemada), Andrée Aubery Luchini (Concepción), and Michel Sénéchal (Gonzalve) demonstrate their understanding of Ravel's allusions -- witty references to the Comédie Française and Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande abound -- and deliver their roles with droll humor and exuberance. Maag's lack of sympathy for the composer is more apparent in the fairly leaden live performance of...
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