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RAVEL
Orchestral Works Vol. 1 [Includes 'Alborada del gracioso' & 'Boléro'] BLU-RAY AUDIO ONLY Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos Blu-Ray Audio / Blu-Ray Audio - released 25/Apr/2015 ] Ravel orchestrated his piano pieces Alborada del gracioso and Pavane pour une infante défunte to great effect; the former gains in suggestive colour, and the latter evokes nostalgic pathos. Another orchestrated work is the Menuet antique, which is... |
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MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Orchestral Works Vol. 2 [Includes 'Gaspard de la nuit'] Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Dec/2013 ] "the American shows real empathy with this magical repertoire, and he draws playing of uncommon composure and contagious application from his scruulously prepared Lyons band..Wonderful value at Naxos's price. Bring on the next instalment." Gramophone |
CHABRIER / DEBUSSY / MUSSORGSKY / SCHUMANN
Orchestral Works, Vol. 3: Orchestrations Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Apr/2016 ] Maurice Ravel's incomparable skill in orchestration and command of orchestral colour is evident both in his own works and in his orchestrations of music by other composers. His versions of both Chabrier's vibrant Menuet pompeux and the colourful... |
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MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Orchestral Works Vol. 4 [Includes 'Daphnis et Chloe'] Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 21/Dec/2016 ] Composed for Sergey Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, Ravel's 'symphonie chorégraphique' Daphnis et Chloé is based on a classical Greco-Roman love story set on the island of Lesbos. He described the work as 'a vast musical fresco', and with its... |
BERLIOZ
Symphonie fantastique / Le Corsaire Overture Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "one of its admirable qualities is the lucidity of playing that responds well to the particular palette of sonorities that Berlioz envisaged...the performance has its merits in precision and in some dramatic explosions" (Gramophone) |
BERLIOZ
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 / Le Corsaire Overture, Op. 21 BLU-RAY AUDIO ONLY Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos Blu-Ray Audio / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Apr/2015 ] Immensely influential, the remarkable Symphonie fantastique was composed while Hector Berlioz was suffering an intense and unreciprocated passion for the Irish actress Harriet Smithson. Its autobiographical tale describes a young musician's... |
BARTOK
The Miraculous Mandarin Orchestre National de Lyon [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 17/Jun/2016 ] "The 1924 quasi-ballet that provoked so much indignation at its premiere in Cologne is interpreted by Robertson and his forces with a crisp vivacity rarely evoked on CD." - The Observer (14 Jul 2002) |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy Orchestrated Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire / Pascal Rophé [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/Feb/2022 ] "Both La boîte à joujoux and the similarly enchanting Children's Corner are performed with deft panache by this quality orchestra." BBC Music |
HENRI DUTILLEUX
Dutilleux: Le Loup / La Fille du Diable / Mélodies / etc Vincent Le Texier (baritone) / Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Pascal Rophé [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 16/Feb/2016 ] In the centennial year of the composer's birth, the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire and Pascal Rophé present a programme which focuses on works composed before 1954, and offers the opportunity to discover a less familiar side of Dutilleux |
ALBERT ROUSSEL
Roussel: Le Festin d'Araignée & Dukas: L'Apprenti Sorcier Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Pascal Rophé [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 17/Jan/2020 ] "Rophé's Dukas is understated, yet quietly rewarding...splendid playing and sound." MusicWeb |
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD / ERNST KRENEK / FRANZ SCHREKER
Schreker, Korngold, Krenek: Orchestral Works Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Sascha Goetzel (conductor) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 17/Oct/2025 ] While the three composers featured on this recording are not, in the public perception and sometimes even in that of the performers, among the most significant exponents of Viennese music in the first half of the twentieth century, their remarkably... |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: La Vie parisienne (Original Version) Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse; Chœur de l'Opéra national du Capitole de Toulouse; Romain Dumas; Anne-Catherine Gillet; Véronique Gens; Ar [ Bru Zane / 2 CD/Book - released 4/Oct/2024 ] 'The rehearsals for La Vie parisienne are almost driving me insane', wrote librettist Ludovic Halévy a few days before the work's first performance. |
JULES MASSENET
Jules Massenet: Grisélidis Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, Thomas Dolié, Vannina Santoni, Julien Dran, Adrien Fournaison, Thibault de Damas, Chœur [ Bru Zane / 2 CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Paris discovered Massenet's Grisélidis at the Opéra-Comique on 20 November 1901. The work is based on a medieval folktale retold by Boccaccio and Perrault, among others, and already set to music several times in the Baroque era. It gave Massenet the... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Art of Charles Dutoit (with bonus DVD of music of Prokofiev) Orchestre symphonique de Montreal / Philharmonia Orchestra / Orchestre National de France / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Charles Dutoit [ Decca Budget Boxes / 7 CD/DVD - released 1/Nov/2006 ] This 6-CD orchestral spectacular features mainly recordings with the OSM but the Orchestra National de France is also included in Poulenc, while the Philharmonia is included with a popular tone-poem by Saint-Saëns (the earliest recording included... |
Original Soundtrack / Jacob Groth & Slovak National Orchestra
Music From Stig Larsson's Millennium Trilogy [ Silva Screen / CD - released 12/Jul/2010 ] Jacob Groth is the most celebrated film composer in Denmark and delivers a dark and sinister orchestral score. |
ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
Glazunov: The Seasons; Ballet Op.67 / Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op.82 Oscar Shumsky (violin) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] "Neeme Jarvi is always at his best in big, splashy Romantic pieces, and this performance is no exception. He whips the orchestra up to a fine frenzy where necessary, and given Chandos's fine sound and a sensible coupling, you're in for some good... |
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Otaka/Bbc National Orch Wales
Elgar:symphony No.1 In A [ Bis / CD ] |
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Otaka/Bbc National Orch Wales
Gubaidulina:pro Et Contra [ Bis / CD ] |
ANDERSON / HOLST / TCHAIKOVSKY / RIMSKY_KORSAKOV / PROKOFIEV / etc
Christmas Spirit Steffan Rhys Hughes (treble) / National Youth Orchestra of Wales / Owain Arwel Hughes [ Quartz / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] National Youth Orchestra of Wales, Owain Arwel Hughes |
NICOLAI PAGANINI
Paganini: Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2 Ilya Kaler (violin) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Stephen Gunzenhauser [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2009 ] "There is no lack of dazzle in the fireworks, and no damp squibs here. With very good notes, this is an excellent example of a Naxos super-bargain at its best." Penguin Guide |
