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| ARTIST: | Paul [composer] Dukas, Henri Duparc, Cesar Franck, Silvio Lazzari, Camille Saint-Saens, Michel Plasson, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | EMI Classics |
| TYPE: | Romantic Tone Poem/Symphonic Poem for Orchestra, Orchestral Music, Classical Music, Scherzo for Orchestra, Classical, Classical Composers, Chamber Music & Recitals, Romantic Orchestral Music, Orchestral |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | L'Apprenti Sorcier, Le Chasseur Maudit, Effet De Nuit, Leonore, Danse Macabre, Aux Etoiles |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 094635567724 |
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Customer Reviews of The Sorceror's Apprentice: French Symphonic Poems
Decent Performances and Some Attractive Rarities--Just Check Your Copy The best thing about this CD is the rareties. Henri Duparc in a rare, non-vocal excursion produces a mostly laudable tone painting of the once-famous poetic ballad "Lenore" by the German Gottfried Burger. (Henri Alkan and Joachim Raff, among other Romantic composers, had a go at the same ballad.) Though "Lenore" is an early work by Duparc, there is no sense that it is an apprentice effort. <
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>Speaking of "apprentice," the best-known work on this concert, "The Sorceror's Apprentice," is given a pretty average run-through by Plasson and his orchestra and is not the reason to get the disc. No, that reason would primarily be the Duparc but also Silvio Lazzari's "L'Effet de Nuit," a very atmospheric and in places downright spooky tone poem touching on the spirits that haunt the night. <
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>Saint-Saens' warhorse "Danse Macabre" is given a very good performance; hearing it again after a number of years, I'm struck by its effectiveness. It's really a very good tone poem, from the weird scordatura tuning of the solo violin to the powerfully orchestrated climax of the work and its solemn, wistful finish. Ditto Franck's increasingly recorded "Chasseur Maudit." Some might poo-poo this piece, but it has a magnificent opening and a frighteningly dramatic conclusion that make for memorable listening--when you're in the mood for corny German Romanticism put to music. Again, Gottfried Burger supplied the storyline. <
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>However, here is the caveat: My copy of the CD was decidedly messed up. It started right at the Allegro of "The Sorceror's Apprentice," skipping the weird slow introduction in the high strings. All the subsequent pieces were thus "off." That is, "Chasseur Maudit" started toward the end of Band 1 (instead of at the beginning of Band 2, as you'd expect), "Effet de Nuit" started well into Band 2, and so on through the disc. A real mess. So again, check your copy. <
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