Allegro Symphonique

On this CD:

1. Allegro symphonique, for piano duet, Op. 68 (arranged by Boëllmann from Suite, op. 20)
Composed by Gabriel Faure
Performed by Mans Symphony Orchestra with Jean-Pierre Ferey
Conducted by Jose-Andre Gendille

2. Symphonic Variations, for piano & orchestra (also arr. for 2 pianos), M. 46
Composed by Cesar Franck
Performed by Mans Symphony Orchestra with Jean-Pierre Ferey
Conducted by Jose-Andre Gendille

3. Symphonie en la, for piano edited by Choudens
Composed by Andre Messager
Performed by Mans Symphony Orchestra with Jean-Pierre Ferey
Conducted by Jose-Andre Gendille

Tracks:

Piano Concerto No.1 In B Flat Minor, Op.23: I Allegro Non Troppo E Molto Maestoso (Excerpt) - Vladimir Ashkenazy
Romeo And Juliet: Love Theme - Wiener Philharmoniker
Symphony No.6 In B Minor, Op.74 'Pathetique': I Adagio - Allegro Non Troppo (Excerpt) - Philharmonia Orchestra
Swan Lake: Scene (Act III) - Herbert Von Karajan
Swan Lake: Waltz (Act I) - Herbert Von Karajan
Swan Lake: Dance Of The Little Swans - Herbert Von Karajan
Il Adagio Cantabile E Con Moto Souvenir De Florence, Op.70: II Adagio Cantabile E Con Moto - Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields
Melodie Souvenir D'un Lieu Cher, Op.42: Melodie - Philip Moll
June: Barcarolle The Seasons, Op.37b: June: Barcarolle - Vladimir Ashkenazy
Eugene Onegin: Waltz - Valery Gergiev
Piano Concerto No.1 In B Flat Minor, Op.23: II Andantino Semplice - Vladimir Ashkenazy
Sleeping Beauty: Pas D'action (Adagio) - Wiener Philharmoniker
Sleeping Beauty: Waltz - Wiener Philharmoniker
Marche Slave, Op.31 - Zubin Mehta

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Violin Concerto In D Major, Op.35: I Allegro Moderato (Excerpt) - Kyung Wha Chung
Symphony No.5 In E Minor, Op.64: II Andante Cantabile, Con Alcuna Licenza - London Symphony Orchestra
The Nutcracker: Overture - Charles Dutoit
The Nutcracker: Dance Of The Sugar-Plum Fairy - Charles Dutoit
Serenade For Strings In C Major, Op.48: II Waltz - St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
String Quartet No.1 In D Major, Op.11: II Andante Cantabile - Gabrieli String Quartet
Eugene Onegin: Polonaise - Valery Gergiev
Capriccio Italien, Op.45 (Excerpt) - Valery Gergiev
Symphony No.4 In F Minor, Op.36: III Scherzo: Pizzicato Ostinato, Allegro - London Symphony Orchestra
Elegie For Strings - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
None But The Lonely Heart, Op.6 No.6 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky
The Divine Liturgy Of St. John Chrysostom, Op.41: Otche Nash (The Lord's Prayer) - St. Petersburg Chamber Choir
Valse Sentimentale, Op.51 No.6 - Arthur Grumiaux
The Nutcracker: Dance Of The Reed Pipes (Mirlitons) - Wiener Philharmoniker
The Nutcracker: Waltz Of The Flowers - Wiener Philharmoniker
1812 Overture, Op.49 (Conclusion) - Zubin Mehta

Customer Reviews:

Best of the best.......2004-03-14

There's something for every Tchaikovsky lover on this disc. From Swan Lake to Onegin, many of Tchaikovsky's most-known melodies are on this disc. I'd have preferred more than an excerpt of the first movement of Piano Concerto No. 1, but this disc is a great introduction to Tchaikovsky's works.

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Report from the far reaches of the musical envelope.
Not great music, but fun
share Ligeti's fascination with mechanical things.
Better than it had any right to be
listen to with open ears

Ligeti: Mechanical Music
Gyorgy Ligeti , Pierre Charial , Jürgen Hocker , and Françoise Terrioux
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ASIN: B0000029P2
Release Date: 1997-05-20

Tracks:

Adaptations For Barrel Organ: Continuum
Adaptations For Barrel Organ: Hungarian Rock
Adaptations For Barrel Organ: Capriccio No. 1
Adaptations For Barrel Organ: Invention
Adaptations For Barrel Organ: Copriccio No. 2
Poeme Symphonique for 100 Metronomes
Adaptation For Barrel Organ: I. Sostenuuto - Misurato - Prestissimo
Adaptation For Barrel Organ: II. Mesto, rigido e cerimoniale
Adaptation For Barrel Organ: III. Allegro con spirito
Adaptation For Barrel Organ: IV. Temp de Valse (poco vivace - (a l'orgue de barbarie))
Adaptation For Barrel Organ: V. Rubato. Lementoso
Adaptation For Barrel Organ: VI. Allegro molto capriccioso
Adaptation For Barrel Organ: VII. Cantabile, molto legato
Adaptation For Barrel Organ: VIII. Vivace. Energico
Adaptation For Barrel Organ: IX. (Bela Bartok in memoriam) Adagio. Mesto - Allegro maestoso
Adaptation For Barrel Organ: X. Vivace. Capriccioso
Adaptation For Barrel Organ: IX. (Omaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi) Andante misurato e tranquillo
Adaptations For Player Piano: X. Der Zauberlehrling
Adaptations For Player Piano: IX. Vertige
Adaptations For Player Piano: XI. En suspens
Adaptations For Player Piano: XIII, L'escalier du diable
Adaptations For Player Piano: XIVa. Coloana fara sfarsit
Adaptations For Player Piano: VII. Galamb borong - Adapted For 2 Player Pianos
Adaptations For Player Piano: Continuum - Adapted For 2 Player pianos

Amazon.com essential recording

Although Gyorgy Ligeti is best known for his eerie, tonally ambiguous choral and orchestral writing (immortalized in 2001: A Space Odyssey), this collection of works for musical automata--player piano, barrel organ, and metronomes--includes some of his most astonishing music. The player piano pieces are an exhilarating, intensely physical roller-coaster ride through superhuman tempi and dynamic extremes--an intriguing marriage of artifice and human invention. While clearly indebted to the influence of Nancarrow, Ligeti's player piano works are more approachable than Nancarrow's rigorous etudes, revealing the sense of humor that distinguishes Ligeti from his more ponderous contemporaries. Likewise, the controversial prank piece Metronomes foreshadows the phasing experiments of Reich with its intricate cross-rhythms created by metronomes marking time simultaneously at different speeds. Perhaps most fascinating of all are Ligeti's compositions for computer-modified barrel organ--a hand-cranked, calliope-like instrument popular with itinerant musicians in the 1700s. --Dennis Rea

Customer Reviews:

Report from the far reaches of the musical envelope........2006-08-29

This recording of Gyorgy Ligeti's 'Mechanical Music' gets five stars from me only because I happen to like this sort of thing, and 'good' music of this type which pushes the envelope in one direction or another is hard to come by. My immediate reaction to it is the amount of similarity I hear in some of the works to those of Frank Zappa's more serious instrumentals, especially to his 'signature' tune, 'Peaches En Regalia'. If I didn't know Sir Frank was heavily influenced by Edgar Varese, I would have started looking for Hungarian skeletens in the Zappa closet.

I will say that if you are not a nut on having the 'complete' set of things, this CD is less interesting than Ligeti's vocal works, but just a bit more interesting than his conventional instrumental works.

Not great music, but fun.......2006-02-16

Of Marcel Duchamp's powerful "Nude Descending a Staircase," an unfriendly (but perceptive) critic said a better title would have been "Explosion in a Shingle Factory." I'd suggest that Ligeti's Poeme Symphonique for 200 Metronomes might more descriptively be titled "Tone Poem: Waiting Out a Twenty-Minute Hailstorm in a Tin Shack."

That said, the album is fun. Some of the barrel organ works have a whimsicality that's appropriate for this instrument (which sometimes produces a sound that I can only describe as watery). It's interesting to hear Ligeti's already-strange Musica Ricercata pieces scored for barrel organ. No one of these pieces, however, carries a lot of emotional power.

share Ligeti's fascination with mechanical things........2004-01-30

First off, I should inform you that Sony's Ligeti Edition series is being deleted so if you're interested in this stuff, you should pick up the ones you want as soon as you can. Ligeti Edition 5 is a good one. No, it's AWESOME. If you have any interest in "mechanical music," this should be essential.

Poeme Symphonique for 100 Metronomes was the main thing I wanted to hear on this collection. The piece starts with 100 metronomes ticking in a dense, ordered mass of monotone ticks. As the piece progresses, as some of the metronomes finish winding down, distinct rhythmic arrangements begin to emerge, swaying and wavy and disorienting. (You can also play a good trick on someone: play this piece in their car and they'll think the vehicle is about to explode or something.) Finally, one metronome is left ticking alone, then silence. The concept seemed utterly fascinating so I knew it was something I had to check out. Fortunately, it is more than just an idea that sounds good on paper - it is a very enthralling piece of music. In the liner notes, Ligeti discusses the thermodynamic category of maximal entropy, which factored into his considerations in composing this piece. That's interesting, because in his work on "dissipative structures," Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine theorized that a given system might reach a "bifurcation point," at which its simpler processes can no longer provide for order. At this point, Prigogine tells us, the system can either go into a total, entropic collapse, or evolve into a higher form of order. The second law of thermodynamics (on which our understanding of entropy is based) may not be as relevant as Prigogine's insights. Rather than coming to maximal entropy upon the finale of the single metronome, we can think of it as a new beginning. It's kind of inspirational in its own weird little way. To get the most out of it, play it on your finest stereo equipment at massive volumes and drown in the sound (gotta emulate the live performance anyway you can).

Another highlight of this collection as Ligeti's piano Etudes adapted for player piano. In standard form, the Etudes demand reams of virtuosity. Here, they are rearranged for player piano where there are no limits imposed by the performer - even the godlike Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Fredrik Ullen are still MEN, and thus have man's limitations. Needless to say, these adaptations are stunning and astonishingly fast, from the head-spinning runs of L'escalier du diable to the astonishing gamelan texture of Galamb borong (for two player pianos). Also of interest is Continuum, adapted for two player pianos. It takes the blurry prestissimo to unreal speeds (it cannot actually be played fast enough on standard piano - the original was written for harpsichord).

The barrel organ pieces are very amusing adaptations of early Ligeti with shadows of Bartok, and they are full of the original pieces' rhythmic ingenuity and vigor, but with flawless mechanical precision and tone control. I think a big reason for my enjoying them is their quirky sound. As for Musica ricercata, personally I'd rather listen to Aimard's piano version (on Ligeti Edition 3), but the barrel organ adaptation is a pretty interesting spin on the piece, with an arrangement that gives it a very different flavor. The barrel organ also makes them sound kinda proggy, hehe.

Get it. Remember, this stuff's going out of print, and Ligeti is so good you don't want to miss your opportunity to have his music!

Better than it had any right to be.......2003-11-26

I stalled for a long time on buying this disc because the general premise didn't seem attractive. 40 minutes of arrangements for barrel organ (mainly of early Ligeti), 15 of arrangements for player piano and a 20-minute piece for 100 metronomes just didn't seem much like fun. In part I was right, but there are also some surprising successes in store for the listener.

Continuum and Hungarian Rock are both harpsichord pieces: one a frenetic pattern-illusion toccata, the other a piece of faux-naif postmodern pastiche. Both come off very well in barrel organ transcription--it's so much easier to hear details that tend to get lost in live performance. Three early piano pieces follow in barrel organ transcriptions: the Capriccio #1 and Invention are not greatly interesting, but Pierre Charial's barrel organ version of the second Capriccio finds depths--and premonitions of later Ligeti--in it that have so far been missed by live interpreters.

The Poeme Symphonique might well be Ligeti's most controversial piece, and it's a comparatively rare venture into Dadaism. Essentially, all the performance involves is queuing up 100 metronomes at different speeds and waiting for them to run down. It's actually more musically interesting than one would expect--patterns emerge from a blur before the rhythms become more and more regular at the end--but it's unlikely to be a piece the listener is likely to return to. (In truth, it works much better live, treated as an installation.)

The barrel organ transcription of Musica ricercata for piano doesn't add very much to the original. One or two pieces--particularly the seventh--do benefit from having new light drawn on them, but in general I'd rather hear a pianist play it (particularly Aimard in his excellent performances on volume 3 of this edition).

The disc ends with player piano transcriptions. Der Zauberlehring, Vertige, En suspens and L'escalier du diable all appear much faster here than on recordings with human pianists. L'escalier, in particular, gives a tremendous sheer visceral thrill, though I miss the expressiveness of a live pianist. Coloana fara sfarasit is actually intended for a player piano, as Ligeti found it was too hard for a real pianist to play. It's a splendidly exhilarating ride, and I hope one day a super-virtuoso will be found who can play it on the piano. The two transcriptions for two antiphonally divided player pianos are not so interesting: Galamb borong gains little from the arrangement, while the version of Continuum that closes the disc isn't nearly as fun as the one that opens it.

I enjoyed this disc, though it's not one I return to very often. If you like the concept, I would recommend this recording--though buy it sooner rather than later as Sony's website no longer lists this disc as in print.

listen to with open ears.......2003-06-04

This cd is very interesting to listen to. Wow the barrel organ is a little different but it adds another view to Ligeti's music. Now for Poeme Symphonique for 100 metronomes, i didn't know how i would go with this piece. First time was like wow different but the second time started to hear something very personal.Music is what you make it

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Fauré: Four Hand Piano Music

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ASIN: B00004SYFR
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Souvenirs De Bayreuth: II
Souvenirs De Bayreuth: III
Souvenirs De Bayreuth: IV
Souvenirs De Bayreuth: V
Huit Pieces Breves, Op.84: I. Capriccio
Huit Pieces Breves, Op.84: II. Fant
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Huit Pieces Breves, Op.84: IV. Adagietto
Huit Pieces Breves, Op.84: V. Improvisation
Huit Pieces Breves, Op.84: VI. Fugue in e
Huit Pieces Breves, Op.84: VII. Allegresse
Huit Pieces Breves, Op.84: VIII. Nocturne No.8
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Masques Et Bergamasques, Op.112: Menuet
Masques Et Bergamasques, Op.112: Gavotte
Masques Et Bergamasques, Op.112: Pastorale
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Dolly Ste, Op.56: Berceuse
Dolly Ste, Op.56: Mi-a-ou
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Nápravník: Concerto symphonique; Fantaisie russe; Blumenfeld: Allegro

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A very pleasant surprise

Nápravník: Concerto symphonique; Fantaisie russe; Blumenfeld: Allegro

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ASIN: B0009QXWZA
Release Date: 2005-08-09

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Allegro Energico
Larghetto
Allegro Vivace
Allegro De Concert In A Major, Op.7
Fantaisie Russe B Minor, Op.39

Customer Reviews:

A very pleasant surprise.......2005-09-12

The main dish here is Eduard Napravnik's Piano Concerto. Napravnik was a prominent conductor, and a main figure in the late-nineteenth century music scene in Russia, well-known to composers like Tchaikovsky and Rimski-Korsakov. The concerto is fairly modern-sounding for its time (1877), with a prominent use of rhythms and not as virtuoso a piano part as you might think. Still, it succeeds in keeping a fairly light touch. The 'fillers' are Napravnik's own Fantasy on five Russian folk tunes (it starts out with the famous 'toilers of the Volga') and countryman Felix Blumenfeld's Allegro de concert. Of these especially the Russian Fantasy makes you long for more of Napravnik's works to be recorded (there are, for instance, four symphonies). All in all, a worthwile addition to the Hyperion Romantic Concerto series.

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complete but lacking
good for completists, but...
Yes, its worth five discs

Satie: The Complete Solo Piano Music

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The Magic of Satie

ASIN: B00008RWRB
Release Date: 2003-06-10

Customer Reviews:

complete but lacking.......2005-06-14

While I am a fan of Thibaudet in general, he just seems lost here. Satie is deceptively difficult to judge as a performer, the music is at times mercurial or static, profound or frivolous, or all of the above. Yet one hardly needs to underline the oddness, it's perfectly revealed if you play it straight.
While some misread notes suggest he may not really know these pieces, Thibaudet manages to project something less than a competent sight reading. In such an endeavor he would certainly get the right feel occasionally by accident. Instead, he regularly puts the wrong foot forward, with odd accents and effects getting in the way, perhaps trying too hard to add spin to music whose mysteries refuse to unfold under such duress.
I would recommend collecting a number of different performers: Reinbert DeLeeuw, Pascal Roge, Anne Queffelec, JoAnna MacGregor and Michel Legrand have all made worthy contributions to the recent discography and their combined recordings would make a pretty-near complete survey.

good for completists, but..........2004-05-18

I jumped at the chance to buy this set; a new digital recording of Satie's complete solo piano music. I had admired Jean-Yves Thibaudet in the past and had seen him perform Messiaen's "Turangalila Symphony"; a great performance. However, after listening to this set for three straight months, I'm rather frustrated with it, mostly on aesthetic grounds, since I can't deny Thibaudet's talents; I just disagree with some of his interpretations.

To start, most of the shorter, "lite" pieces are performed very well on disc 4. Even the most popular, (Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes) are excellent. I am also thankful I now have performances of "Uspud" and many of Satie's conservatory assignments, played expertly and with good humor. For these, the set is worth having.

But now, the bad news. As I have complained about in the past with Thibaudet's Ravel discs, I'm frankly rather put-off by his inexplicable, pointless staccato in many of the pieces. "Petite Overture a la Danser" is one of my favorite Satie miniatures, and here Thibaudet botches it by playing it way too fast with no pedal. It sounds like a joke, and I think he totally misses the point of the piece. In the "Nazareen" preludes, he adds his own extreme dynamics which are not indicated in the original scores, and the effect seems like a cheap attempt to add "spice" to what are supposed to be meditative sound constructions, based on poetry forms rather than classical forms.

"Prelude to the Heroic Gate of Heaven" is taken far too slow, and Thibaudet completely cuts out the "Curtain" coda in the original Salabert edition for no apparent reason; he seems determined to give the piece a more "proper" ending, and for this listener, it's a terrible, narcissistic, and disrespectful miscalculation.

I will keep this set since it is a complete document, flawed though it may be. But I still must insist that the best living interpreter of Satie's piano music is the ever-underrated Reinbert DeLeeuw, who is completely in-tune with Satie's sly magic. His tempos may be slow, his dynamics few, but that's the whole point; this is highly personal music, and DeLeeuw has an aesthetic I can personally agree with. For an audible explanation of what I'm talking about, compare the performances of "Petite Overture a la Danser" by DeLeeuw and Thibaudet, and you'll see what I mean.

Yes, its worth five discs.......2003-12-17

Each disc averages about 75 minutes of music. Over six hours of Satie? Definitely yes. If you have an affinity for Satie's classic pieces you should not pass up this set. There are so many standout pieces in so many wonderful styles you can only leave this set with wonder. And Thibaudet seems made for this music. The best interpreter of Satie that I've heard. His technique is amazing with such a range of subtle fingering tempo and dynamics. Its as though I've heard some of these for the first time with new shocks of emotion I hadn't experienced before. Not to be missed.

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Great recording
Audition Window--very good
Increbily Usefull to an trombone player, a must have.
Fantastic

The Audition Window
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Great recording.......2007-06-14

I purchased the CD for use with my students. It is an absolute "music have" for every high school band room. It is some of the most beautiful brass playing you will hear. Carl Lenthe is a world class trombone artist.

Audition Window--very good.......2007-05-17

My son wanted this music as he is learning a solo for the trombone. He found several pieces he likes and the CD is very enjoyable.

Increbily Usefull to an trombone player, a must have........2006-01-05

This is comiing from a guy who has played 3/4 of the tracks on this album myself. If you are serious about playing trombone, this is a must have cd, the tracks span many songs you WILL run across, and i dare you to find a better quality recording.

Fantastic.......2003-12-03

This recording of Trombone solos with piano is incredible. The performer is a wonderful musician, and I find his rendition of J. Ed Barat's Andante and Allegro to be fascinating. I have performed the piece myself, and found this CD very useful in my own performance.

Elgar: Orchestral & Choral Works; Concertos

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Super collection of Elgar's major works

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Super collection of Elgar's major works.......2004-06-28

Most compilations of composers works usually only feature, at best, maybe one or two works in recordings that are of outstanding quality, especially if different artists are featured. Such is absolutely not the case with this collection, one of the finest of its sort ever issued.

This box makes a perfect one stop shopping choice for the major, most-well-known works the British composer Sir Edward Elgar. The title is misleading though. The box, on 8 CDs at an incredible price, contains both Orchestral AND Choral works.
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Symphony Nos. 1 & 2 -- LPO , Solti
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Dream Children -- Welsh NO , Mackerras

Look up almost any of the individual works and you should be able to find these recordings in their individual issues, many with several 5 start ratings.

I won't elaborate on any of the specific recordings, just take my word for that there isn't a dud in the box.

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Customer Reviews:

Tutti.......2000-05-06

Although a compilation of various pieces, this CD has the drama and sonic impact which will test the limits of your system. The orchestral presentations are first class. The sound stage presentations with the left to right width and the front to back depth give the listener an outstanding three dimensional impression of the actual orchestra instrument placement in the recording hall as well as the hall's ambient sound.

I have from time to time heard the expression 'sound windows' when discussing Speakers in an audio system. This CD will give you an excellent opportunity to check the clarity and precision of your system....in particular the bottom end capabilities of both the ampifier and the speakers.

I stronly recommend using this CD as a true Reference CD Rrecording when evaluating enhancements or upgrades to your system. Bring this CD to your dealer and listen carefully.

Get to know what your system is capable of and what it is not capable of delivering before and after listening tests for your new component.

Good Luck

WONDERFUL SAMPLER CD!.......2000-02-26

It does the trick. It literally samples the entire recent Reference Recordings catalogue, with varied excerpts from all kinds of music, a rare and exciting compilation wel worth the price. I reccommend it highly.

Tutti - Orchestral Sampler.......2000-02-02

This sampler is not your typical classical sampler. As seen from the track listing, it contains a diverse, but incongrous, selection of orchestral pieces, mixing Mozart, Vivaldi and Rimsky-Korsakov with more contemporary composers such as Bruckner, Arnold, and Paray. Although the list of selections is tempting and attractive to those who want to expand their musical knowledge, the combination just doesn't work. The jump from Mozart to Paray to Arnold to Vivaldi is unsettling to the ear, although it may be suited to a music education class. If, however, you seek less traditional (less soothing), less harmonic (more tempestuous), orchestral music, this may be the collection for you. The conducting and performances are very good. It certainly will never be background music for dinner!

Average customer rating:

Great stuff for vintage buff
Moyse, Gaubert, Hennebains, Le Roy

The Great Flautists, Vol. 2

Manufacturer: Pearl
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000WST
Release Date: 1992-12-23

Tracks:

Ser in D, Op.25: 1st. Movt.: Entrata: Allegro - Marcel Moyse
Ser in D, Op.25: 2nd. Movt.: Tempo Ordinario D'un Menuetto - Marcel Moyse
Ser in D, Op.25: 4th. Movt.: Andnate Con Variazioni - Marcel Moyse
Ser in D, Op.25: 6th. Movt.: Adagio-Allegro Vivace E Disinvolto - Marcel Moyse
Ste Op.116: Idylle - Marcel Moyse
Carnaval De Venise (Abr.) - Marcel Moyse
Dance Of The Blessed Spirits - Marcel Moyse
Le Petit Berger - Philippe Gaubert
'Ascanio' Var - Philippe Gaubert
Nocturne in F#, Op.15/2 - Philippe Gaubert
Nocturne in F#, OP.15/2 - Adolphe Hennebains
Valse in D flat, Op.64/1 ('Minute') - Adolphe Hennebains
Romance in E flat - Adolphe Hennebains
Ste En Parties, Op.91: 1st. Movt. Entree En Sonate: Moderement Anime - Rene Le Roy
Ste En Parties, Op.91: 2nd. Movt.: Air Desuet: Modere Sans Lenteur - Rene Le Roy
Ste En Parties, Op.91: 3rd. Movt.: Sarabande: Assez Lent - Rene Le Roy
Ste En Parties, Op.91: 4th Movt.: Farandole Variee: Avec Entrain (Marche) - Rene Le Roy

Customer Reviews:

Great stuff for vintage buff.......2002-04-17

This is a collection of recordings dating back as far as 1908, some 15 years before electrical recording was invented! Be assured you will hear scratching, popping, hissing and all kinds of noise. I can almost imagine Edison's little doggy listening to Hennebains in his recording session... Presented are 4 of the most important flutists after Taffanel: Hennebains, Gaubert, Moyse and Le Roy.

The opening Beethoven played by Moyse ( who studied with Taffanel, Hennebains and Gaubert ) and friends is crisp and lively. The ensemble work is mostly good, the intonation is not without its quirks... dare i even suggest the masters were out of tune... the violist must have been positioned closer to the mic. in the first 2 tracks. good thing he plays well... the thumping in the back ground in track 3 always makes me laugh.

We get to savor Moyse's unique tone and legato in the Godard. Intonation is always a function of music. Moyse's music is full of pull and stretch to make his point in that respect. this is not the ensemble intonation i refered to earlier. i doubt if early artists prepared for recording dates as religiously as people today, also there's no edit button to click on in the 1920's. Yet Moyse comes through with spectacular technique and form in the Carnival. His Gluck is strong in character and resolve.

Gaubert was a student of Taffanel and is the perfect flutist to me. His tone, technique and musical intent is pure and honest. his tone colors are so vivid and varied that they come through even in this primitive recording. i find his legato flawless. I can never listen to enough Gaubert.

For close to a hundred years, the original French flute school reined supreme and unbroken in it's tradition and succession.
Taffanel, the most important flutist of them all, studied with the famed Dorus. Hennebains, featured in this CD, studied with Dorus's successor Altes. Hennebains eventually took over Taffanel (who took over from Altes). So in many respects, Hennebains is in mind ranked almost even with Taffanel...bla bla bla.

We get to compare Hennebains' Chopin to Gaubert's in this CD. Hennebains comes accross with a "meatier" sound. i find less soul searching in his though... as much i like his musical tension and release and poise. Hennebains definately had the fingers! He carries his passages with ease and direction, flawless legato he is quite capable of.

Rene Le Roy was a student of Hennebains, Lafleurance and Gaubert. Le Roy earned the respect and admiration of D'Indy through his musicianship and artistry. It is D'Indy's beautiful suite that is the subject of the last recording transfered onto this CD. And it is a gem. The musical sensitivity and tone of Le Roy is pure and exquisite. The ensemble work here is first rate. Truely a bunch of musicians getting together to make good music. Now, this is one instance i can't stand the stratching, popping and hiss of the old record!

The remastering is untainted by recording studio touch up's... at least in my imagination, and is very stable, without the interesting wavering i sometimes think i hear in the piano...

I highly recommend < The Recorded Legacy of Marcel Moyse > together with vol. I and II of this series.

Good listening to one and all.

Moyse, Gaubert, Hennebains, Le Roy.......2000-06-22

Sound quality is something to be wanted in this CD. Because the music was recorded from old LPs, there is a lot of static present, but one still gets a sense of what the masters sounded like. In an era of perfectionism, it's interesting to hear intonation sacrificed for the sake of expressing the music. If it weren't for the background noise, this CD would be first-rate.