France With a Hungarian Perspective

This cd is the two Piano Concertos of Ravel and Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra by Debussy, given a Hungarian slant by Zoltan Kocsis and the Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Ivan Fischer. I love the piano concerto in G. Commonly stated to be jazz influenced, what I find interesting is that at the time of composition jazz was still in an early swing phase, whereas the inflections I detect remind me more of a later style. Like Thelonius Monk say ? Maybe it's a more prosaic kind of Gershwin thing, haven't checked the chronology of when it was written compared to his output. I suspect there are better candidates for a definitive library than this Kocsis recording but it is an attractive enough coupling for me.