Dukas: L'apprenti sorcier - Ravel: Ma mère l'oye - Koechlin: Les bandar-log Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg & Marc Albrecht

• Paul Dukas (1865 - 1935): L'apprenti sorcier:
• 1 Dukas: L'apprenti sorcier: Scherzo after a ballade by Goethe 10:55
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): Ma Mère l'Oye, M. 62:
• 2 Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye, M. 62: I. Prélude - Très lent 03:17
• 3 Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye, M. 62: II. Danse du rouet et scène - Allegro 03:37
• 4 Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye, M. 62: III. Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant 02:23
• 5 Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye, M. 62: IV. Les entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête 04:54
• 6 Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye, M. 62: V. Petit Poucet 05:03
• 7 Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye, M. 62: VI. Laideronnette, Impératrice des pagodes 04:57
• 8 Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye, M. 62: VII. Le jardin féerique - Lent et grave 03:47
• Charles Koechlin (1867 - 1950): Les Bandar-Log, Op.176:
• 9 Koechlin: Les Bandar-Log, Op.176: Scherzo des singes 18:29
• Total Runtime 57:22

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Goethe's ballad "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" was set to music by Paul Dukas in a symphonic scherzo. "Mother Goose" from the 17th century French fairy tale collection was initially a pianistic miniature by Maurice Ravel, which he transformed with dedication into a colourful, dazzling orchestral work. With Charles Koechlin, the "Bandarlog", the monkeys from the Jungle Book, are allowed to "ape" various styles of contemporary music - a grandiose mixture of humour and poetry.

"From Paul Dukas' indestructible adaptation of Goethe's "Zauber lehrling" to Maurice Ra el's tales of "Mother Goose" and Charles Koechlin's rarely heard "Affen-Scherzo", inspired by an episode from Kipling's "Jungle Book", the compilation offers very different approaches to literary models, each of which is immediately appealing thanks to its imagery and richness of colour. This foray into French music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries is also undeniably appealing to listeners who have already outgrown their infancy, as it exemplifies the cardinal virtues of French music-making beyond its programmatic content: Clarity, richness of flavour, eminent sound and a pronounced awareness of form." (FonoForum.de)

"A real rarity completes this recording. Charles Koechlin (1867-1950) studied with Massenet and Fauré, yet even today this enigmatic and neglected composer is still regarded as something of a marginal figure in French music, which makes this recording of one of his most important works especially welcome. From an early age Koechlin was fascinated by the writings of Rudyard Kipling, in particular ‘The Jungle Book’, and throughout his long creative life he devoted much of his compostional skills to producing Kipling inspired works, the most important being a series of four symphonic poems of which ‘Les Bandar-log’ written in 1939 is the last. Its musical depiction of a noisy tribe of monkeys (Les Bandar-log) is used by Koechlin as a means to satirise the fashionable imitators of truly original creative artists. In the words of the composer, “The monkeys consider themselves to be inspired geniuses but are nothing more than self-satisfied mimics whose only goal is to follow the fashion of the day”. Koechlin’s atmospheric impressionistic opening to this scherzo leads to a woodwind theme that is strikingly similar to the beginning of the ‘Spring rounds’ section in Part 1 of Stravinsky’s ‘Rite of Spring’. Vigorous parodies of neoclassical, polytonal and even atonal musical styles follow, before an almost Ivesian fugue starts in the lower strings and eventually builds up to a series of huge dissonant climaxes after which the opening calm is re-asserted. The considerable technical demands made on the orchestra by Koechlin’s complex writing are fully met in Albrecht’s gripping performance. The recording handles the huge dynamic range of the music with impressive ease and its remarkable clarity immensely assists the listener’s appreciation of this quite challenging score.

This musically rewarding and sonically impressive recording is yet another feather in the cap of the PentaTone label." (Graham Williams)

Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg
Marc Albrecht, conductor

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