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Le Roi Arthus, Chausson’s only completed opera, took the composer 10 years to write and was not premiered until four years after his death. He
The playing of Christian Ferras tends toward a small, boxy sound and interpretive choices marked by displaced intensity. Either the fire is lacking, such as
You have to be stuck playing snare drum or triangle in the Symphonie espagnole’s finale, after six long rehearsals in as many days with a
This is a novel and fortuitous pairing on disc. Chausson and Tchaikovsky actually composed their piano trios within months of each other (the former in
Ernest Chausson’s Symphony has not exactly enjoyed a deluge of recordings, but this one makes perhaps the strongest case for the work. Michel Plasson’s free-flowing,
Ernest Chausson’s work has become something of a subspecialty for the Chilingirian Quartet: they have recorded two other discs of his chamber works for Hyperion,
Chausson’s occasionally recorded symphony had two powerful advocates in the 1950s and 60s, namely Charles Munch and Paul Paray, and their discs are considered classics.
There’s some wonderfully ardent singing on this CD, and some compelling passages of vocal color and shading. Christine Schäfer is an intelligent singer who understands
The gimmick here is Vadim Repin’s use of same “Ruby” Stradivarius that Pablo de Sarasate played at the premiere of the Symphonie espagnole. Of course,
Ernest Chausson’s death in 1899 in a bicycle accident robbed French music of a major talent. Almost his entire orchestral output fits on this extremely
