Paul Dukas: Cantates, choeurs et musique symphonique
Flemish Radio Choir & Brussels Philharmonic, Hervé Niquet
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2016, Editor's Choice
Hervé Niquet and his forces are superb guides through this repertory, little of which has previously appeared on disc…orchestral textures are admirably lucid, the choral singing beautifully...
Paul Dukas: Cantates, choeurs et musique symphonique
Flemish Radio Choir & Brussels Philharmonic, Hervé Niquet
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2016, Editor's Choice
Hervé Niquet and his forces are superb guides through this repertory, little of which has previously appeared on disc…orchestral textures are admirably lucid, the choral singing beautifully...
About
Considered one of the finest composers of the late French Romantic period, Paul Dukas was also a brilliant orchestrator, known above all for The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, one of the most frequently performed works worldwide. But four times, between 1886 and 1889, he failed to win the Prix de Rome competition.
He was a severe critic of his own works, many of which he systematically destroyed, but miraculously several ambitious and varied compositions have survived.
Contents and tracklist
- Flemish Radio Choir, Brussels Philharmonic, Hervé Niquet, Marie Kalinine
- Recorded: May-August 2014; June 2015
- Recording Venue: Place Flagey, Brussels, Ixelles, Belgium
- Flemish Radio Choir, Brussels Philharmonic, Hervé Niquet, Marie Kalinine, Cyrille Dubois
- Recorded: May-August 2014; June 2015
- Recording Venue: Place Flagey, Brussels, Ixelles, Belgium
- Flemish Radio Choir, Brussels Philharmonic, Hervé Niquet, Kate Aldrich, Catherine Hunold, Tassis Christoyannis
- Recorded: May-August 2014; June 2015
- Recording Venue: Place Flagey, Brussels, Ixelles, Belgium
- Flemish Radio Choir, Brussels Philharmonic, Hervé Niquet, Cyrille Dubois
- Flemish Radio Choir, Brussels Philharmonic, Hervé Niquet, Cyrille Dubois
- Flemish Radio Choir, Brussels Philharmonic, Hervé Niquet, Chantal Santon-Jeffery
- Flemish Radio Choir, Brussels Philharmonic, Hervé Niquet, Frédéric Antoun, Marianne Fiset, Andrew Foster-Williams
- Flemish Radio Choir, Brussels Philharmonic, Hervé Niquet
- Flemish Radio Choir, Brussels Philharmonic, Hervé Niquet
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Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineFebruary 2016Editor's Choice
February 2016
Hervé Niquet and his forces are superb guides through this repertory, little of which has previously appeared on disc…orchestral textures are admirably lucid, the choral singing beautifully focused and the conducting impeccable…the whole thing adds immeasurably to our understanding of Dukas and is a very fine achievement indeed
2nd December 2015
The cantata he wrote for the 1889 [Prix de Rome] competition, Sémélé, is the major curiosity here, performed for the first time, apparently, since it was heard at the competition...These orchestral and choral performances are much more than adequate, and Hervé Niquet brings out every textural point he can in Dukas’s scoring.
