![]() ![]() “Depuis hier.Que fais-tu, blanche tourterelle?” Run time: Approximately 110 minutes including one 20-minute intermission 2, a ravishing, romantic “choreographic symphony” in three exhilarating parts for orchestra and chorus, bring the evening to a thrilling close. That impressionist composer’s playful Mother Goose Suite ( Ma Mère L’Oye), a collection of five charming storybook miniatures, and Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. This spirited scherzo is followed by popular opera selections from Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Claude Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, Jules Massenet’s romantic tragedy Werther, and two works by master orchestrator Maurice Ravel. Based on a ballad by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and immortalized through Walt Disney’s groundbreaking animated film Fantasia, this lively work captures the imagination as the spell of an inept magician’s apprentice goes chaotically awry. Paul Dukas’s masterful symphonic tone poem, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, has become wildly popular with audiences across the globe since its premiere in 1897. Romantic, mysterious, and awe-inspiring like the glow of Paris at night, this delightful program of mischievous magic, childhood fairytales, and operatic jewels celebrates the music of Dukas, Gounod, Debussy, Massenet, and Ravel. Decca's sound is remarkably clear, warm, and natural, and it holds up quite well in comparison with the label's later improvements in digital reproduction.Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the renowned Curtis Symphony Orchestra and rising young stars of Curtis Opera Theatre in a musical tour of France. Other than this non-essential filler, this is a solid collection that represents the best of Debussy's orchestral scores in fine, and sometimes magical, performances. The only piece that drags the collection down with its inescapable dullness is Le martyre de saint Sébastien this suite of orchestral pieces, culled by André Caplet from Debussy's incidental music for Gabriele d'Anunzio's religious play, is stodgy and lifeless even with Dutoit's and the MSO's best efforts, it comes off as a flat sequence of tedious tableaux. The performance of Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, however, is possibly the most captivating of the album, not only in feeling completely intuitive and effortless, but also in its radiant colors and sparkling effects, scarcely rivaled anywhere else. ![]() These bright-toned and sprightly accounts are among this set's most memorable highpoints. For this kind of atmospheric, evocative music, Dutoit is one of the world's foremost interpreters, and his approach to Debussy's orchestral works is lively and vibrant, as demonstrated in his effervescent readings of La mer, Jeux, and Nocturnes. This 1999 double-disc of Debussy favorites, performed by Charles Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, is a well-balanced compilation of recordings made in 19, with only one of the offerings, Printemps, dating from 1994. Nocturnes (3) for Orchestra by Claude Debussy Notes: Composition written: France (1892 - 1894).ĥ. Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune by Claude Debussy Le martyre de St Sébastien symphonic fragments by Claude DebussyĤ. Orchestra/Ensemble: Montreal Symphony Orchestra Orchestra/Ensemble: Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Montréal Symphony Women's Chorus ![]() Label: Decca Catalog #: 460 217 Spars Code: DDD Debussy: La Mer, Nocturnes, Jeux, Etc / Dutoit, Montreal So
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