I have several copies of Ravel playing the "Pavanne" on the Duo-Art,
including an audio recording of it [040720 MMDigest].  I really don't
like Ravel's playing; too choppy, not enough gush.  I'm a romantic,
and it seems to me it needs to explore the depths of feeling, the pain,
the tears, of the event.

Robert Schmitz plays a version on the Ampico that's a lot closer to how
I like it, but, in his version, it seems to me that he does not explore
what I once felt when my first lover dumped me, and I heard sounds well
up from within me that I didn't know my body could make; they scared me.

So there is a version that does this: I played it on the 9'6" Steinway
to selected audiences at the AMICA convention; it was well received.
I have both masters of it.  It will be coming out as soon as Dave
Saul's [Duo-Art] perforator is ready, and will include the Audiographic
leader, which I'm making galley copies of as we speak.

Bruce Grimes