Krivine; Emmanuel

Chamayou Dazzles in Saint-Saëns

David Hurwitz

Ever since my colleague Jed Distler raved about Bertrand Chamayou’s remarkable release of Liszt’s complete Années de pèlerinage, I have been following his career on

CD From Hell: Dire Days for Debussy at the Orchestre National

David Hurwitz

Having just heard Daniele Gatti’s horrendous Debussy disc with the

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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9/Krivine

Victor Carr Jr

We’ve reached the point where there’s no longer anything novel or revelatory about a period-performance Beethoven Ninth Symphony, and about the only thing interesting about

Dvorák: New World/Krivine

David Hurwitz

Everything about this performance of Dvorák’s Ninth is bad: the concept, the conducting, and the playing. First, the concept: the very idea of Dvorák on

D’indy: Poème des rivages; Istar; Diptyque méditerranéen

David Hurwitz

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

W.A. Mozart: Mass in C minor/Accentus

David Vernier

Emmanuel Krivine leads a crisply articulated, rhythmically taut, tonally vibrant performance of Mozart’s unfinished Mass, vividly capturing its varied stylistic features and projecting the large

Ravel Piano Concerti Sermet/Krivine C

ClassicsToday

Considered by Pierre Boulez “France’s best symphonic ensemble”, the Orchestre National de Lyon unfortunately has also the worst concert venue, the over-resonant Maurice Ravel Auditorium.