
Although other discs in this series have been released since […]
OK, so Honegger isn’t exactly a bag of laughs to begin with, but he’s also not as dreary as Denève and his Stuttgart forces make
Ah, how I wanted to love this disc unreservedly. Denève
This is Debussy in the great French tradition, the sort
Stéphane Denève’s Roussel recordings for Naxos are far and away the most comprehensively satisfying in the catalog. This final installment provides a worthy and memorable
Stéphane Denève’s Roussel cycle for Naxos easily has been the finest ever recorded, and this concluding disc fully lives up to expectations. The Fourth symphony
I had the good fortune to be present at a performance of the third part of the Cosmic Trilogy (“Supernova”) at a concert given by
Stéphane Denève’s Roussel cycle is shaping up to be the finest available–not that there’s a lot of compelling competition. All of the symphonies are shockingly
This disc recalls the heady days of Munch and Bernstein in this music. Stéphane Denève, music director of the RSNO since 2005, plays Roussel’s music
Has anyone ever noticed that William Walton lifted the climaxes of the first movement of his Partita for Orchestra bodily from the Prélude of Roussel’s