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[…] they are a highly varied bunch: there are still traces of Berlioz in Ernest Guiraud’s Ouverture d’Arteveld from 1874, for instance, while Boulanger’s D’un Matin de Printemps of 1918 brings together Debussy and early Stravinsky. There’s Debussy too in Mel Bonis’s rapturous Le Rêve de Cléopatre, but it’s Wagner who casts a shadow over Vincent d’Indy’s Istar, Henri Duparc’s beautiful Aux Étoiles, Augusta Holmès’s La Nuit et l’Amour and Ernest Chausson’s Arthurian Viviane. Meanwhile, Alfred Bruneau’s La Belle au Bois Dormant owes a clear debt to his teacher, Massenet.
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Faces of classical music
2019-02-17 12:11:00
The best new classical albums: February 2019
[…] turmoil he found himself in while composing: a disastrous marriage, struggles with his sexuality and severe depression. Yet, despite the gloomy outlook, the symphony proves undoubtedly that Tchaikovsky knew how to fill his works with memorable melodies. Known for his mastery of Russian repertoire, for this album Noseda pairs Tchaikovsky with a masterpiece by his fellow countryman, Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, performed here in Ravel's iconic orchestration.Source: amazon.com Vers l'ailleurs – Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt, Rodolphe Bruneau-BoulmierGaspard Dehaene, pianoRecorded November 2018 in LimogesReleased on February 1, 2019 by Collection 1001 NotesLe pianiste Gaspard Dehaene confirme une sensibilité à part ; riche de filiations intimes. C'est un geste explorateur, qui ose des passerelles enivrantes entre Schubert, Liszt et la pièce contemporaine de Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier. Ce 2è cd est une belle réussite. Après son premier (Fantaisie – également édité par 1001 Notes), le pianiste français récidive dans la poésie et l'originalité. Il aime prendre son […]
2019-01-06 12:58:16
This release duplicates exactly a somewhat more lively recording of the same repertoire on Marco Polo featuring James Lockhart and the Rhenish Philharmonic Orchestra. To be honest, Naxos needn’t have bothered doing it again. The music just isn’t that interesting. Bruneau (1857-1934) was an earnest, well-trained, and important composer for the theater in turn-of-the-20th-century France. […]
2018-10-26 08:00:20
Raymond Bisha introduces a programme of orchestral music by Alfred Bruneau (1857-1934), a composition student of Jules Massenet and one of the most important yet overlooked figures in turn-of-the-century French musical life. Bruneau’s desire for theatrical realism in his operas mirrored the literary aspirations of his friend Émile Zola. Conductor Darrell Ang and the Barcelona
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