Pierne:orchestral Releases

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Pierne:Orchestral ReleasesOpis:Product Description This is the eagerly awaited second volume of orchestral works by Pierné, played by the BBC Philharmonic under Juanjo Mena and featuring Jean- Efflam Bavouzet. The first volume, released five yearsago, was a delectable aperitif (American Record Review).

More successful than his older rival Debussy in the early twentieth century, the composer Pierné deserves to be better known nowadays. This recording features some of his most virtuosic and yet mysterious pieces, placing him at the frontier between romantic (Liszt, Saint-Saëns, Franck) and contemporary impressionist (Ravel, Debussy) influences. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, who is often praised for his expressive power and fine technique, here takes on the challenge of bringing such gems as the Fantaisie- Ballet or Poème Symphonique to much-deserved fame. Cathédrales and Paysages franciscains are later works (1915 and 1919 respectively), and while the former evokes scenes of devastation from WW I, the latter offers more airy and impressionist music with obvious signs of modern influences.

Review Admirers of the music of Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937), have had to wait patiently for the second volume of Chandos's series. The first instalment was released four years ago, and if that proved rather disappointing, its successor is much more convincing and enjoyable. The main work on that first disc was Pierné's early piano concerto, and it is single-movement pieces for piano and orchestra that dominate this collection, too. There are three of them here, ranging chronologically from the Fantasie-Ballet of 1886 (the year before the concerto) to the Poème Symphonique, which was composed in 1901. These pieces are pleasant, wonderfully fluent but ultimately unremarkable examples of French late romanticism, which hardly stray beyond Pierné's musical starting points in Massenet, with whom he studied composition, and César Franck, who was his organ teacher and whom he succeeded as organist of Sainte-Clotilde in Paris in 1890. But it's the two later orchestral works not involving a solo piano, the Paysages Franciscains of 1919 and Les Cathédrales, the prelude he composed four years earlier for a dramatic poem by Eugène Morand, that are much more intriguing. Pierné conducted the premiere of Stravinsky's Firebird in 1910, as well as concert performances of Debussy's Images and Jeux, and Ravel' s Daphnis et Chloé, and their modernism gradually percolated through into his own music. The brief, rather gloomy Les Cathédrales, haunted by transformations of the Marseillaise, is striking without pushing the stylistic envelope too far, but the Paysages Franciscains, based on three scenes from the life of St Francis of Assisi, takes the language of Debussy and Ravel fully onboard and uses it very skilfully. Each piece is perfectly conceived in orchestral terms, and make up a much more substantial work than the pastoral title suggests. It s also beautifully rendered by Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic, while Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is not only a dazzling soloist in the three concertante works, but adds two of Pierné's solo piano pieces, the Nocturne en Forme de Valse and a concert study, for good measure.**** --Guardian, 27/8/15Dynamic performances by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and the BBC Philharmonic. --Gramophone,Oct'15Bavouzet is a convincing and enthusiastic advocate, sparkling in the Scherzo-Caprice, calmly noble at the opening of the Poeme symphonique and negotiating the abrupt turns of mood in the Fantasie-Ballet with ease. Performance **** Recording **** --BBC Music Magazine, Dec'15Autor:Jean-Efflam BavouzetNośnik:Audio CDPłyt:Język: Data wydania: 2015Waga: 0.18 gramWysokość: 0.6 cmSzerokość: 5 cmDługość: 5.6 cmUWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.