The two hundred and twenty-eighth classical recording: #695 Jacques Ibert - Escales
In a way, movies - or at least earlier movies - and their scoring really have given us the opportunity to develop more of a visual language to go along with classical music. There are different speeds and timbres in this work and the different movements take you on different trips, with a notably more Arabian sound in the Tunis section. It immediately gives you the movie style imagery - not the visual storytelling, but you recognise the cues to form your own images. It feels like an additional visual metaphor for what is already a telling piece of work, enhancing it while keeping it personal, and this just gives that opportunity to you in the best way.