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I think we're talking about two different things here, Garry.

From your message it appears that the wordless chorus parts were dubbed onto the Accord recording. Dominy Clements' review includes this phrase: "“you are likely to wonder how Ravel’s sumptuous and detailed orchestration – including a wordless chorus – can ever be approached with piano alone.” That suggests pretty clearly that no chorus is involved in the Yi Lin Jiang recording. I've checked with Dominy and that is the case.

So, in their different ways, it seems that both that recording and the one by Claire-Marie Le Guay could fairly be described as premieres