It may not contain everything written by French modernist composer Francis Poulenc -- the solo works, the chamber works, the stage works, and the songs with piano accompaniment are naturally not included -- but Charles Dutoit's five-disc set of the orchestral works, the concerted works, the sacred choral works, and the vocal works with orchestral ...
When musicologists talk about the pervasive and pernicious Wagnerian influence in late nineteenth century French music, they're talking about César Franck, they're talking about Vincent d'Indy, but most of all they are talking about Ernest Chausson. With his massive symphony, his lyric opera Le Roi Arthus, and his song cycle Poéme de l'Amou et de ...
This CD features the first release of performances of short works by Messiaen, all of them rarities, except for Le merle noir. Messiaen wrote La morte du nombre for soprano, tenor, violin, and piano in 1929 while he was a student at the Paris Conservatory. It's possible to trace its lineage back through Debussy's Le Martyre de St. Sébastien to ...
It's perhaps a little disingenuous to call a reissue Never Before Released, but it's certainly simpler than having to completely repackage the CD, and this selection of rarities (plus Le merle noir) by Messiaen includes so many treasures that the listener, after hearing it, is unlikely to be too concerned about the title. Messiaen wrote La morte ...
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