Piano Concerto for Left Hand / Piano Cto in G
Alicia de Larrocha's career has slackened off a bit as she's gotten older, but her interpretive powers in the music she loves so well haven't faded a bit. A couple of decades ago she recorded the two Ravel concertos for London records, performances which were among the most recommendable available. They fell out of print because big labels needed to make room for newer (often less good) versions of the same works. So it's cause for celebration that she has rerecorded these works for RCA.Leonard Slatkin's accompaniments are even finer than on her first versions--critical in this brilliantly scored music--and the sound is better too.--David Hurwitz