Browse: CD, Dukas (composer)

The French Romantic sensibility is clearly audible across this beautifully played selection: texture and atmosphere are everything, tension ebbs and flows. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Dukas's E flat minor Sonata (1900) is a rare (the only?) French example of the form from this period. Lasting more than 45 minutes, each of its four movements is underpinned by almost unremitting... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

These masterly performances under the baton of George Benjamin here provide the focus of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's inventive tribute to the composer, captured live at concerts during... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Philippe Jaroussky has a wide pitch range and absolute control throughout, with no tenseness at the top of hooting at the bottom, and his floated high notes are ravishing. Jérôme Ducros's accompanying... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

To encounter a programme featuring some of the core works in the horn repertoire played on historically appropriate instruments with such effortless musicianship and technical ease really takes... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…