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The French pianist Catherine Collard had brief affiliations with the […]
In his review of RCA’s complete Monteux recordings, Jed Distler
Amazingly, most of this music is available in multiple recordings, even the much-maligned Third Symphony, subtitled “Short Symphony in a Time of War”. It’s actually
We’re still waiting for a truly great recording of this powerful symphony, but this one is quite good. Rumon Gamba characterizes the music well, choosing
Charles Dutoit leads a taut and focused Franck D minor Symphony wherein he lets the music speak plainly with a minimum of emotional rhetoric. Not
Most listeners know of Vincent d’Indy for his most famous work, Symphony on a French Mountain Air, which used to be regularly tacked onto recordings
There are finer recordings around than this slightly droopy performance of d’Indy’s Symphony on a French Mountain Air, particularly Dutoit/Thibaudet on Decca, featuring much better
Vincent d’Indy’s orchestral works exist on the outermost fringes of the orchestral repertoire. Even the delightful Symphony on a French Mountain Air seems to have
Australian pianist Duncan Gifford does himself proud in a program that adds up to more than the sum of its parts. Saint-Saëns’ Fifth Piano Concerto
This interesting collection of French music presents, in addition to a handful of transcriptions, some of the best original pieces ever written for Adolphe Sax’s
