2 sanctified people: Ravel and Perlemuter. As I listen to Ravel's beatific score, I wonder what corner of Earth he inhabited to be able to write such "otherworldly music", such magnificent music? For Perlemuter this score was easy and his interpretation was all he thought about. It is his ease, his fluidity that knocks me out as I listen. What a heavenly combination!!!!!
I have his Vox set of the complete Ravel, including both piano concertos. I had no idea a film existed of him playing it live. When he re-recorded the solo works for Nimbus they did not do the concertos. I heard him live only once - an early evening recital at the QEH in London about 1971. He played the Chopin Fantasie in F minor and both books of Etudes. He just strolled onto the platform as if he had just walked in off the street and unleashed his magic. He was the least flashy and most unprepossessing musician I ever heard. No airs and graces - just music. Unforgettable.
The orchestra isn't particularly precise and the conductor seems rather uninspired. Furthermore, he seems to march through the middle part without listening to the soloist at all. It's pleasure to see and hear Perlemuter though. Thanks for the upload.
La technique défaillante rend cette interprétation difficilement écoutable lorsque les doigts ne suivent pas. Le concerto pour la main gauche de Ravel, c’est définitivement Samson François.
