Debussy Orchestral Works Deneve 2 Sacd Chandos

Debussy: Orchestral Works [Chandos: CHSA 5102[2]]

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Product Description Recognised internationally as a conductor of the highest calibre, Stéphane Denève took up the post of Music Director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in 2005, and has since attracted attention from audiences and critics alike. This May, the conductor bids a fond farewell to Scotland and the RSNO with a series of Au Revoir concerts, and of course, this disc of orchestral works by Debussy. After the impact made by the production of Pelléas et Mélisande in 1902, the next orchestral work by Debussy was awaited with intense interest. La Mer did not disappoint, and is today widely considered to have been crucial in its influence on twentieth-century music. After completing this work, Debussy spent no fewer than seven years wrestling with what were to become Images for orchestra. Some critics were puzzled by the work and suggested that Debussys talent might have dried out. They were promptly put right in an article by Ravel, who accused them of slowly closing their eyelids before the rising sun amid loud protestations that night is falling. With a sultry flute solo, Prélude à laprès-midi dun faune opened an astonishing new world for western music. Debussy based this composition on a poem by Mallarmé, who wrote to the composer: I have come from the concert, deeply moved: A miracle! that your illustration of LAprès-midi dun faune should present no dissonance with my text, other than to venture further, truly, into nostalgia and light The three Nocturnes feature some of Debussys most imaginative orchestral writing. In the words of the composer, the title Nocturnes is not meant to designate the usual form of a nocturne, but rather all the various impressions and the special effects of light that the word would suggest. Debussy provided descriptions of the three movements. Nuages, for example, depicts the slow, melancholy procession of the clouds, ending in a grey agony tinged with white, and also the experience of standing on the Pont de Solférino very late at night. Total silence. The Seine without a ripple, like a tarnished mirror. Review Debussy was dismissive about his music being described as Impressionist. He regarded the works he composed as realities . Yes, he might be portraying in musical terms such elusive images as the sea, moonlight or a submerged cathedral, but his means for doing so were completely focused in matters of atmosphere, orchestration and impact. This two-CD set from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Stéphane Denève underlines the point very well. Denève has clear ideas about the lucidity of Debussy's scoring and he conducts the orchestra in a way that brings the poetic or visual pictures that inspired the music vividly and freshly to life. The RSNO has made French music something of a speciality during Denève's seven-year tenure as music director, which he leaves at the end of this season to be replaced by the Canadian Peter Oundjian. It is a happy coincidence that the 150th anniversary of Debussy's birth in 1862 falls this year, because it gives the RSNO/Denève collaboration a chance to go out on a particularly topical high with these discs. They present nine works here, ranging in date from the early Printemps (1887), through the Nocturnes (1897-9), La Mer (1903-5) and Images (1905-12), to Debussy s last original orchestral score, the Diaghilev ballet Jeux of 1913, together with the Prélude à l après-midi d un faune that was to put Debussy firmly on the musical map in 1894. All are performed with finesse and with a combination of energy, discretion and colour that give them a luminous quality. **** --Sunday Telegraph,22/06/12Deneve's affinity with Debussy to inspire the RSNO with his interpretative thoughts conjure up so much more. (comparing this to the Gatti / French NO) --Gramophone,Aug'12These are especially sensous accounts. Performance ***** Recording ***** --BBC Music Magazine, Aug'12

Data premiery: 2012-04-30

Marka: CHANDOS

Waga: 0.265 gram

Wysokość: 0.6 cm

Szerokość: 5 cm

Długość: 5.7 cm

English: Published