Saint-Saëns: Ascanio - Ballet: Andromaque
Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Jun Märkl
Ascanio is barely known today, but its ballet music contains the most delicious Renaissance pastiches, This, alongside a miscellany of other orchestral bits and bobs, makes for a delightful...
Saint-Saëns: Ascanio - Ballet: Andromaque
Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Jun Märkl
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Ascanio is barely known today, but its ballet music contains the most delicious Renaissance pastiches, This, alongside a miscellany of other orchestral bits and bobs, makes for a delightful...
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Saint-Saëns's operatic works contain instrumental music of vivacity and charm but have been undeservedly overlooked. Ascanio contains a substantial and elaborate divertissement that fellow composer Reynaldo Hahn termed the entire Renaissance in a few pages. Les Barbares, a tale of conquest and revenge, includes a vivid Prologue and joyful ballet, while La Princesse jaune with its pentatonic writing, and La Jota aragonese laced with Spanish vitality, show the composer at his most generously carefree.
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Ensemble de Phœbus, Diane, Erigone, Nicœa et Bacchus avec les muses, les nymphes et les bacchantes
Track length1:53
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Awards and reviews
March 2020
Ascanio is barely known today, but its ballet music contains the most delicious Renaissance pastiches, This, alongside a miscellany of other orchestral bits and bobs, makes for a delightful listen.
March 2020
You can’t fault Märkl’s performance...There’s some exemplary playing, above all from the woodwind in the tricky oboe solo in the ‘Tambourin’ that marks Bacchus’s first appearance and the near concertante flute-writing that accompanies the scenes between Cupid and Psyche.
January 2020
Rarely encountered scores, expertly delivered.
