Albert Roussel's opera-ballet Padmâvatî has not been treated well by posterity, and on the basis of its music, it's difficult to understand why. The "Mediocre Libretto" excuse could be trotted out, but if it were applied objectively, quite a few anchors of the repertoire would be disqualified. The libretto, by Louis Laloy, is loosely based on a ...
Those who love the music of Georges Bizet have only two regrets: first, that the composer died too young to have reached full maturity and second, that he left so little truly great music behind. Three years before his death at 37, Bizet was commissioned to write the incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play L'Arlésienne. Wildly unpopular, the ...
Romanian composer George Enescu's 1931 opera Oedipe is an epic work on several levels, including its dramatic scope -- from the protagonist's birth to his death -- and in the huge performing forces it requires. It stands for the most part outside the modernist or post-Romantic operatic conventions of its time and inhabits a sound world that uses a ...
Father Francisco de Madina was a Basque-born priest and composer who spent most of his time working for the church in either Argentina and the United States before returning to his beloved Catalonia just before his death. While devoting most of his time to the church, Madina found time to compose a fair amount of music, mostly for guitar, ...
Various releases in later years have been devoted to national and regional traditions of Europe, far from the power centers that attempted to dictate an inexorable line of historical development in the twentieth century. The series of discs devoted to Basque composers on Switzerland's Claves label may seem more obscure than most, but on the ...
This disc includes every orchestral work of Bizet you'll ever need in performances, led by Michel Plasson, that may never be bettered. In other words, this is mandatory listening for any fan of the composer. It contains the supremely well-known Carmen and L'Arlésienne Suites, as well as the less well known Jeux d'enfants and Symphony in C, the ...
Romanian composer George Enescu's 1931 opera Oedipe is an epic work on several levels, including its dramatic scope -- from the protagonist's birth to his death -- and in the huge performing forces it requires. It stands for the most part outside the modernist or post-Romantic operatic conventions of its time and inhabits a sound world that uses a ...
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