Many households have two sets of dinnerware: everyday china and the good china. In this collection featuring pianist Anne Queffélec, Satie is like the everyday china and Ravel is the good china. Queffélec plays the Satie more instinctively, more frankly than she does the Ravel. She has fun with the parodies in the Sonatine bureaucratique and the animation of Le Piccadilly. Her Gnossiennes are faster than most pianists', but she's still careful with her coloring, as she is in the Gymnopédies. After all, even though it's used ...
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Many households have two sets of dinnerware: everyday china and the good china. In this collection featuring pianist Anne Queffélec, Satie is like the everyday china and Ravel is the good china. Queffélec plays the Satie more instinctively, more frankly than she does the Ravel. She has fun with the parodies in the Sonatine bureaucratique and the animation of Le Piccadilly. Her Gnossiennes are faster than most pianists', but she's still careful with her coloring, as she is in the Gymnopédies. After all, even though it's used more often, everyday china is just as breakable as good china. Ravel's works are treated more carefully and gently. The sharpness of the opening of the Menuet antique and the shining brilliance of the Tombeau's Prelude are respectfully toned down, but she doesn't ever sacrifice strength along with the brightness. With the Ravel she attentively nuances the coloring and timing of the music, giving it a fresh airing, just as if she were dusting off the good china for a special...
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