The music of Albert Roussel is not easy to pigeonhole, due to the evocative Impressionism of his early compositions and the more abstract neo-Classicism of his later works, composed after World War I. With its emphasis on timbres and textures over themes and development, the Impressionist style may not seem particularly well suited to symphonic ...
Hans Vonk and the St. Louis Symphony's recordings of Debussy's La Mer, Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales and La Valse plus Roussel's Suite No. 2 from Bacchus et Ariane are of generally good quality, but they pale somewhat in comparison to the best recordings of the repertoire. There is a taste of the sea in their La Mer, a feeling of the ...
As far as two-disc collections of the orchestral music of the French composer Albert Roussel go, this set cannot be beat for the simple reason that most if not quite all the performances here are as good or better than the best ever recorded. And the simple reason for that is the conductors and orchestras here are as good or better than nearly ...
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 ...
Régine Crespin was unquestionably one of the great sopranos of the twentieth century, although her career was marked by periods of struggle with her instrument. EMI's The Very Best of Régine Crespin is concentrated in the years 1958-1961, when Crespin enjoyed her first bloom of international fame, and in 1965, when she was locked into her first ...
Albert Roussel: Psalm 80 -- Aeneas is a release on the French Timpani label combining four little-heard works of Roussel dating from his last years, and it is an intelligently conceived program that helps open the door to Roussel's late style. Of the four works presented here, only the Fanfare pour un sacre païen and Aeneas have been recorded ...
Despite her long career, pianist Monique Haas made relatively few recordings, so the historic offerings on this 2004 release from Profil Edition may be considered rarities. Haas preferred to play the music of her near contemporaries, rather than works of the established Classical and Romantic masters, and her taste is reflected in the selection of ...
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