Dukas: L'apprenti sorcier, La péri & Symphony in C Major

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It is clearly a labour of love for conductor Jean-Luc Tingaud. He has not only polished the playing of the RTE National Symphony Orchestra to a beguiling level of Gallic sparkle, but also consulted... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 3rd Nov 2014
Catalogue No: 8573296
Label: Naxos
Length: 71 minutes

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Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Work length10:50

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RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Jean-Luc Tingaud
Recorded: 7-10 October 2013
Recording Venue: National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland

Dukas: Fanfare to La Peri

Work length2:04

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RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Jean-Luc Tingaud
Recorded: 7-10 October 2013
Recording Venue: National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland

Dukas: La Péri

Work length17:54

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$5.15

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RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Jean-Luc Tingaud
Recorded: 7-10 October 2013
Recording Venue: National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland

Dukas: Symphony in C major

Work length40:40

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$12.85

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RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Jean-Luc Tingaud
Recorded: 7-10 October 2013
Recording Venue: National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland

I. Allegro non troppo vivace, ma con fuoco

Track length13:39

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II. Andante espressivo e sostenuto

Track length15:49

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III. Allegro spiritoso

Track length11:12

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Paul Dukas is famed for his brilliant, meticulously scored symphonic scherzo The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, first performed in 1897, which almost immediately entered the international repertoire. It was subsequently the focus of a ballet and later Walt Disney’s film Fantasia. Magical scoring is also a feature of La péri, a poème dansé of great imaginative verve. The delightful, colourful Symphony in C was composed mid-way between these works. For this recording, manuscript sources for the three works were consulted, including the hitherto private proofs of the first edition of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, ensuring rigorously faithful performances.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is one of the great orchestral showpieces and internationally famous. It was used in the Disney film, Fantasia. La Péri is less well-known but delightfully orchestrated and full of interest. The Symphony in C is not as often performed as it should be for so colourful a score - but it has attracted on disc conductors such as Yan-Pascal Tortelier, Jean Fournet, Jean Martinon, Walter Weller, Leonard Slatkin and a number of others. For this recording the original manuscript sources for all three works have been consulted, ensuring that the composer’s intentions are honoured.

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February 2015

It is clearly a labour of love for conductor Jean-Luc Tingaud. He has not only polished the playing of the RTE National Symphony Orchestra to a beguiling level of Gallic sparkle, but also consulted manuscript sources for all three works...in Tingaud's hands, there is plenty of space for the delicate finesses of Dukas's orchestration.

January 2015

a warm welcome to this clear-headed and uncommonly sensitive account under Jean-Luc Tingaud. Not only does the Frenchman secure a commendably polished and infectiously enthusiastic response from the RTE National SO..., he shapes tihs glorious msuic with pleasing character, flexibility and authority.

February 2015

There are sumptuous passages of great beauty - sun-drenched and languid sounds with stunning orchestration…this is most movingly presented with a true cantabile tone and a real sense of longing. Listeners who enjoy rich, harmonic romantic scoring will be at home here.

27th November 2014

Dukas’s music sometimes comes close to the so-called impressionism of Debussy and Ravel. But while never neglecting those colouristic aspects, Tingaud’s big-boned performances show how its stylistic roots reach back into a much wider range of 19th-century European models.

Dukas: L'apprenti sorcier, La péri & Symphony in C Major

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