Ravel's Don Quichotte, Debussy & Vaughan Williams works are song cycles, the Debussy & Vaughan Williams originally with piano acc.; Ravel's Valses originally for piano; the Vaughan Williams & Ravel Valses orch. by the composers.

Text of Don Quichotte by Paul Morand; text of Vaughan Williams by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Issued with BBC Music Magazine, v. 12, no. 7 (Mar. 2004).

Compact disc.

Program notes by Richard Wigmore inserted in container.

Recorded at BBC Maida Vale Studio I Oct. 17, 2002 (Vaughan Williams) & Feb. 6, 2002 (remainder).

Don Quichotte à Dulcinée. Chanson romanesque ; Chanson épique ; Chanson à boire / Ravel.

Livre de Baudelaire : four songs from Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire. Le balcon ; Harmonie du soir ; Le jet d'eau ; Recueillement / Debussy ; orch. John Adams.

Songs of travel. The vagabond ; Let beauty awake ; The roadside fire ; Youth and love ; In dreams ; The infinite shining heavens ; Whither must I wander ; Bright is the ring of words ; I have trod the upward and the downward road / Vaughan Williams.

Valses nobles et sentimentales / Ravel.

Quixote, Don (Fictitious character) > Songs and music.

Morand, Paul, 1888-1976 > Musical settings.

Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 > Musical settings.

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 > Musical settings.

BBC Symphony Orchestra.