At 07:10 PM 8/6/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>I was wondering whether anyone on this list might be able to steer
>in the direction of any performance of this work that is considered
>the benchmark upon which other are judged? I am a neophyte
>in the "classical" world and any help would be appreciated.

There is a recording which is sometimes listed as being conducted by Ravel
with the Lamoureux. Unfortunately, the attribution is spurious.

To my knowledge, there is no one performance which can be considered
definitive of this or any other substantial work. For example, one might
consider Stravinsky's recordings of his own music "definitive" except that
the 'definition' changes as his interpretation varies in different
recordings of the same work.


Mike
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