Pièces Pittoresques: Piano Works by Chabrier & Debussy

On this CD:

1. Pièces pittoresques (10), for piano
Composed by Emmanuel Chabrier
Performed by Margaret Mills

2. Suite bergamasque, for piano, L. 75
Composed by Claude Debussy
Performed by Margaret Mills

3. Bourrée fantasque, for piano (also for orchestra)
Composed by Emmanuel Chabrier
Performed by Margaret Mills

Tracks:

Alborada del gracioso
Sheherazade, Ouverture de Feerie
Sarabande
Danse
Carnaval: Preambule
Carnaval: Valse allemande - Paganini - Valse allemande
Carnaval: Marche des Davidsbundler contre les Philistins
Menuet pompeux
Pictures At An Exhibition: Promenade
Pictures At An Exhibition: Gnomus
Pictures At An Exhibition: Promenade
Pictures At An Exhibition: The Old Castle
Pictures At An Exhibition: Promenade
Pictures At An Exhibition: Tuileres
Pictures At An Exhibition: Bydlo
Pictures At An Exhibition: Promenade
Pictures At An Exhibition: Ballet Of The Chicks In Their Shells
Pictures At An Exhibition: Samuel Goldenberg And Schmuyle
Pictures At An Exhibition: Limages - le marche
Pictures At An Exhibition: Catacombae
Pictures At An Exhibition: Con mortuis in lingua mortua
Pictures At An Exhibition: The Hut Of Baba-Yaga
Pictures At An Exhibition: The Great Gate At Kiev

Customer Reviews:

You'll hear why Oue didn't last long.......2005-09-18

I guess the Minnesota orchestra hoped to get the next Ozawa when they hired oue, but he has vanished, never to reaappear. He isn't up to professional conducting in many technical regards, and although the sonics here are really demonstration quality, the readings don't come close to rivaling even the average Pictures at an Exhibition.

Pictures of an Exhibition.......2002-05-22

One of the best classic classicals. Orchestation is superior.

HDCD.......2002-03-24

Like most recent Minn Symp Orch Reference recordings this is a 20-bit HDCD playable on regular 16-bit CD players

Magnificent and Lush! Oue is amazing!.......2001-06-03

Eiji Oue conducts this compilation of turn-of-the-century pre-modernist meditations with superb diction and clarity. He is a truly gifted conductor and gets more out of the Minnesota Orchestra than I ever imagined possible. Cut 23, "The Great Gate at Kiev," is simply magnificent. Mussorgsky captures the essence of standing in front of a work of art-the sense of being awed, then puzzled, then enlightened. Oue follows his lead by capturing the essence of a world poised to leap into a new century: The fear, the magic, and the optimism. It's lush and absolutely gorgeous.

Reference recording.......2000-08-04

If music is the tonal expression of thought than Ravel was one of the greatest minds in music of the twentieth century. His experiments have lifted music out of impressionism into expressionism in the same way as in literature and painting. The lesser-known Overture to Shéhérazade is wonderful in its intimacy and so different from the interpretation of the fairytale by Rimsky-Korsakov (although you should listen to the performance under Bernstein). The Pictures of an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky are lively and impressive, especially the last movement with resounding bells and a triumphant brass-section. I think the compilation is well chosen, all pieces sound rather French in style, even the Schumanns.