Lovely playing from the best pianist, Perlemuter, performing the works of the BEST composer, Ravel!!!! "Noctuelles" is the most charming piece of music ever written - truly captures the cuteness of night moths!!
These revelatory 1955 performances are truly vintage Perlemuter. Perlemuter was really great in Ravel-- until he got old. His many later recordings are a disservice to his own powers. He had neither the same technical control nor the same expressive nuance as an elderly pianist, a characterization I would also apply to the older versus the younger Novaes.
