Dukas: Symphony La Peri; La Apprenti Soreier
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Composer: Paul [Composer] DukasConductor: Leonard Slatkin
Orchestra: Orchestre National de France
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-01-12
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Symphony In C: I. Allegro non troppo vivace, ma con fuoco
- Symphony In C: II. Andante espressivo e sostenuto
- Symphony In C: III. Allegro spiritoso
- Fanfare -La Péri
- La Péri
- The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Free Music Notes for Dukas: Symphony La Peri; La Apprenti Soreier
Free Music Review: clearly exciting
Hit: 5 Stars
This 1996 performance of three of Dukas' best known works (of the scant 12 surviving) has received high critical praise for Slatkin's conducting of the genuine French Orchestre National. Well, "best known" is a relative term, since most of us have only heard Dukas' jaunty and soaring Sorcerer's Apprentice piece (most likely in Disney's Fantasia movie, under the baton of showman Stokowski). But the other two pieces here are equally quick-paced, tonal, lyrical, brassy, and classical in their sonata-forms. The symphony is admirable, if not exactly tuneful; one of the most outstanding of all French symphonies. The ballet score, La Péri, is preceded by an undistinguished fanfare, but itself is lyrical and often shimmers with high percussion. The ballet between two dancers concerns a fairy who holds a lotus Flower of Immortality desired by a Persian prince, who falls in love instead. These works sound crisp, spirited, and especially transparent in texture (clearly heard instrumental lines and not many at one time). They are most attractive works, approachable, and featuring the higher registers. In other words, not at all like the contemporary, turn of the last century, pieces from Viennese heavyweights like Mahler and Strauss, which instead forshadow the chaos to come.
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