Myung-Whun Chung conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in an All-Ravel Program

Myung Whun Chung


Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Davies Hall, San Francisco
Sunday, March 7, 2010

Myung-Whun Chung, Conductor
Anne Sofie von Otter, Mezzo-Soprano

All Ravel Program:
Ma Mère L'Oye (complete ballet)
Shéhérazade
Daphnis et Chloé, Suites 1 and 2
La Valse

For a good part of this reviewer's life, it would seem, the world has been waiting for a truly great International French symphony orchestra. At mid-century, a general feeling was that the Boston Symphony under Sergei Koussevitzky and Charles Munch carried the torch for French music, ably assisted by Paul Paray in detroit, Pierre Monteux wherever he could be found, and, on disc, by L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva.

Read the full article on the Berkshire Review for the Arts!

Michael Miller