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André Cluytens: The Complete Orchestral Recordings Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra, Orchestre de l'Association des Concert Colonne, Orchestre National de France, Wiener Philharmoniker / André [ Erato / Warner Classics / 65 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2017 ] André Cluytens, though born in Belgium, achieved fame as one of the supreme French conductors of his era, renowned for his refinement and the sheer joy of his music-making. In the mid-20th century he built a substantial, varied and distinguished... |
MILHAUD / BERLIOZ / SCHUMANN / BLOCH / RACHMANINOV / RAVEL / etc
Leonard Bernstein: An American In Paris - Recordings & Concerts with Orchestre National de France Orchestre National de France, Leonard Bernstein, with Boris Belkin (violin) Donald McInnes (viola) Marilyn Horne (mezzo) etc [ Warner Classics / 7 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2018 ] This 7CD set is the fruit of the love affair that developed in Paris between Leonard Bernstein and the Orchestre National de France in the 1970s. Beside long-admired studio recordings, featuring Mstislav Rostropovich and Alexis Weissenberg among the... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique / Overture: 'Le Corsaire' / Royal Hunt and Storm & Trojan March ('Les Troyens') (recorded 1957-59) Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Thomas Beecham [ Warner Classics Masters / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] Rosette Recording (highest rating) Penguin Stereo Guide - 'If you want a genuinely French Symphonie fantastique, wonderfully performed and superbly recorded, go out and get this release before it's snapped up by your neighbour.' (Gramophone) |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 7 Orchestre National de Lille; Alexandre Bloch [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Alexandre Bloch, who has been Music Director of the Orchestre National de Lille since 2016, has chosen to devote a whole season of concerts to Mahler's symphonies. The Seventh (1904-05) is the most rarely recorded of the cycle - unjustly, because... |
HENRI DUTILLEUX
Dutilleux: Symphony No. 2 'Le Double' Orchestre National de Lille, Darrell Ang [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2017 ] "The result is impressive in its fluidity and engagement." Five Stars Diapason |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Overtures Orchestre National de Lille, Darrell Ang [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2017 ] Jacques Offenbach is best remembered for his operettas, but the dramatic Ouverture a grand orchestra is a rarely heard early piece that presages his future in musical theatre. The enduring popularity of Orpheus in the Underworld is due in no small... |
CAMILE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Symphonic Poems Orchestre National de Lille, Jun Märkl [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] A wide orchestral palette and stirring reserves of drama are used to evoke the youthful audacity and death of Phaéton, the ultimate triumph of virtue over pleasure in La Jeunesse d'Hercule ('The Youth of Hercules'), and Hercules' punishment, spinning... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY / MAURICE RAVEL
Debussy / Ravel: Orchestral Works (Incls 'La Mer', 'Images', 'Bolero' & 'Daphnis et Chloe') Orchestre National de l ORTF, Orchestre de Paris, Jean Martinon, with Aldo Ciccolini (piano) Itzhak Perlman (violin) [ Erato / Warner Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 25/Jul/2018 ] "If you are satisfied with performances that are lucid, imaginative, thoughtful and unselfconscious then you will be very happy with Martinon." (MusicWeb on the Debussy) |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Complete Orchestral Works (9CD) Orchestre National de Lyon, Jun Märkl [ Naxos / 9 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2012 ] This collection contains all Debussy's works for orchestra as well as many orchestral arrangements of his piano music. Together these display a rich panorama of Debussian sound and a remarkable insight into the composer. Established arrangements by... |
MESSIAEN
Et Expecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum / etc Orchestre National de Lyon, Jun Märkl [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2012 ] "It would be hard to sanitise this music completely, however, and the compelling way in which the rhythmic buoyancy of oriental dance comes into conjunction with Roman Catholic piety in the fourth movement is vividly conveyed." (Gramophone) |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Orchestral Works Volume 5 - La Boite a Joujoux etc. Orchestre National de Lyon / Jun Märkl [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Apr/2011 ] "The Lyon players create the strange impression of floating on air as points of sound emerge from the near-distance with ear-tweaking lucidity...The engineering balances detail and atmosphere to glowing perfection...Märkl's revelatory Debussy series... |
DEBUSSY
Orchestral Works Volume 6 - Suite Bergamasque / Petite Suite / Printemps / En blanc et noir / Symphonie in B minor Orchestre National de Lyon, Jun Märkl [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jul/2011 ] "Robin Holloway's 2002 version of En blanc et noir breathes Debussian air, as does Tony Finno's realisation of the early Symphony" (Gramophone) |
RAVEL
L'Heure espagnole & Don Quichotte à Dulcinée Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jan/2016 ] Ravel's operas are both single-act works that have remained popular and regularly performed, keeping them firmly in the public eye while holding a position just beyond the central ground of operatic repertoire. |
RAVEL
Orchestral Works Vol. 1 (Incls 'Alborada del gracioso' & 'Boléro') Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] 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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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... |
