Debussy - La Mer / Nuages, Fêtes, Printemps (reference recording : Charles Munch)
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Debussy began composing La Mer in 1904, in Burgundy, but as he wrote to fellow composer André Messager, his memories of the sea were “worth more than a reality whose charm generally weighs too heavily on the imagination”. He continued to work on the score, however, while staying in Jersey, and then in Dieppe. For Debussy, even less than for th... [Read More]
Leopold Stokowski's La Mer is one of his finest recordings. Swiftly moving like an ocean current, it also has a sonic voluptuousness that no other performance can match. How he did it was anyone's guess, and even though he indulges in his usual fondness for re-orchestration here and there (particularly the tam-tam crescendo at the very end) it all ... [Read More]
ü These 13CDs, containing Munch’s entire Warner Classics catalogue, comprise recordings made between i) 1935 and 1949 (CD7-13) and ii) 1965 and 1968 ((the year of the conductor’s death, CD1-6). ü The repertoire on the 13 CDs is wide-ranging – from the Baroque era to the mid-20th century (Bach and Vivaldi to Dutilleux and Jolivet) and from c... [Read More]
A soirée is in full swing, the assembled company enjoying itself immensely and dancing a polonaise. Only one of the guests stands apart, Eugene Onegin, the opera s hero or, rather, the anti-hero of an anti-opera that Tchaikovsky wisely described not as an opera at all but as a series of Lyric Scenes . Here the golden rules of the theatre seem to h... [Read More]
A musician of uncommon versatility, Gunnar Idenstam happily acknowledges the influences of Swedish folk music and dance as well as the symphonic rock of the 1970s. But whether he collaborates with Sami traditional singers (as on Songs for Jukkasjärvi, BIS-1868) or folk musicians (as on Folkjul: A Swedish Folk Christmas, BIS-5031), Idenstam is firm... [Read More]
Debussy: La Mer / Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole - Charles Munch, Boston Symphony (A Basic Library Selection / Music America Loves Best) RCA Victrola-1041 Stereo
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