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French Masters (Raymond Leppard, Charles Mackerras, Jean-Claude Casedesus et al)
French Masters:CD 1: Hector Berlioz01. - 05. Symphonie fantastique, op.14 [53'16]06. Le carnaval romain, op.9 [8'53]Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles MackerrasCD 2: Cesar Franck & Camille Saint-Saens01. - 03. Cesar Franck - Symphony in D minor, op.48 [40'49]Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Raymond Leppard04. - 06. Camille Saint-Saens - Symphony No. 3 in C minor, op.78 [34'26]J P Kemmer- organ, Radio Luxembourg Orchestra conducted by Louis de Froment CD 3: Claude Debussy & Erik SatieClaude Debussy: 01. - 02. Two Arabesques [7'53]03. Suite bergamasque - No. 3, Clair de lune [5'43]04. Images pour piano. Book 1 - No. 2, Hommage a Rameau [7'44]05. - 07. Preludes. Book I - No. 4, Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir; No. 10, La cathedrale engloutie; No. 12, Minstrels [14'00]Erik Satie: 08. - 10. Three Gymnopédies [8'13]11. - 16. Six Gnossiennes [16'22]17. Je te veux. Waltz [6'15]Ronan […]
2019-01-08 00:00:00
Henri Sauguet - Les Caprices de Marianne
[…] and next to that of André Jolivet in Section 27, near the grave of Hector Berlioz.Sauguet's autobiography Musique, ma vie (Music, my life) was published posthumously in 1990. Les caprices de Marianne is a two-act opéra comique by Henri Sauguet with a French libretto by Jean-Pierre Grédy after Alfred de Musset. It was first performed at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1954, with the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire conducted by Louis de Froment with the Chorale Élisabeth Brasseur .The opera was broadcast on French radio ten days after the premiere, performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in 1956, with Graziella Sciutti, Jacques Jansen and Michel Sénéchal, and was recorded in 1959 (conducted by Manuel Rosenthal). More recently, the opera has been staged by Compiègne (2006) and Dijon (2007). SynopsisThe setting is Naples. The opera opens with musicians serenading Marianne beneath her balcony. Coelio is a young man […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-10-17 02:57:00
Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite (1919), & The Song of the Nightingale | Henri Tomasi: Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Tempest – Hunter Eberly, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Fabien Gabel – Friday, October 19, 2018, 10:45 AM EDT (GMT-4) – Livestream
[…] don't pretend to be a precursor; I find myself in the middle of a period where one is demanding more from the so called minor elements of the orchestra and hope to have made a useful contribution to this captivating research". ("Journal de Vichy", 28-07-1949)Then it was Maurice André who integrated it into his repertoire and a first record was made of the concert played by the Orchestra of Radio-Luxembourg and directed by Louis de Froment in 1963. The same prestigious soloist interpreted the work in a ballet version choreographed by Joseph Lazzini at the Opéra de Marseille on the 10th,16th and 18th of March 1963.Some comments by Henri Tomasi on the work follow: "The first movement (Allegro and cadence) begins by a trumpet solo; a brief introduction to the 1st theme and of a 2nd that is soft and melancholic. The development of these two themes ends in a […]
2018-04-09 02:01:00
It’s puzzling that Brilliant Classics was unable to get any of the several EMI/Warner sets of Saint-Saëns piano concertos to fill out this set, instead of licensing the decent but not terribly special Vox recordings featuring Gabriel Tacchino and Louis de Froment. At this price, however, you can simply consider the works for piano and […]
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