{"id":54691,"date":"2018-08-19T15:46:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T13:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/19\/lsorattle-review-a-fascination-with-the-fantastic\/"},"modified":"2018-08-19T15:46:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T13:46:01","slug":"lsorattle-review-a-fascination-with-the-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=54691","title":{"rendered":"LSO\/Rattle review \u2013 a fascination with the fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Albert Hall, LondonFrom the \u2018erotic\u2019 song cycle Sh\u00e9h\u00e9razade, to ballet Mother Goose, Simon Rattle exquisitely tackles Ravel\u2019s finest works\u2018One of the most erotic pieces ever written,\u2019 is how mezzo-soprano Magdalena Ko\u017een\u00e1 describes Ravel\u2019s 1903 song cycle Sh\u00e9h\u00e9razade in the programme for the London Symphony Orchestra\u2019s Prom of the composer\u2019s work, conducted by her husband Simon Rattle. The concert explored Ravel\u2019s lifelong fascination with the fantastic in fairytales and literature, and his evocation of the wondrous in music of great beauty and complexity. He had a remarkable ability to identify with the imaginations of children as well as adults: Rattle flanked Sh\u00e9h\u00e9razade with his 1911 ballet Mother Goose, drawn from a series of piano duets for children, and his magical 1925 opera L\u2019Enfant et les Sortil\u00e8ges. Rattle has always been a fine Ravel interpreter, fastidious both in his approach to the music\u2019s detail and in his understanding of its cumulative impact. The LSO played all three works exquisitely, with all the shifts in colour immaculately teased out. Mother Goose was cool and poised, the hints of menace occasionally understated: Petit Poucet, lost in his forest, did not sound as forlorn as he sometimes does, while Laideronnette\u2019s salamander could have been a bit more sinister. The incipient violence lurking behind the opening of Sh\u00e9h\u00e9razade, on the other hand, was superbly captured, while the later songs were an object lesson in sensual restraint. Rattle\u2019s judgment of the wit, enchantment and sadness of L\u2019Enfant proved similarly immaculate. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2018\/aug\/19\/lso-simon-rattle-review-proms-royal-festival-hall-london\" target=\"_blank\">LSO\/Rattle review \u2013 a fascination with the fantastic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Albert Hall, LondonFrom the \u2018erotic\u2019 song cycle Sh\u00e9h\u00e9razade, to ballet Mother Goose, Simon Rattle exquisitely tackles Ravel\u2019s finest works\u2018One of the most erotic pieces ever written,\u2019 is how mezzo-soprano Magdalena Ko\u017een\u00e1 describes Ravel\u2019s 1903 song cycle Sh\u00e9h\u00e9razade in the programme for the London Symphony Orchestra\u2019s Prom of the composer\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}