Search - Ansermet, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande :: Chabrier: España, Suite pastorale, Joyeuse marche, Le roi malgré lui / Franck: Le Chasseur maudit, Les Éolides

One of the greatest recordings ever made

HB | Fort Mill, SC | 10/28/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I simply cannot believe this great recording has not been reviewed yet. Unless you only like the most serious of classical music, this CD will delight you. The performances are simply spectacular, especially the Chabrier pieces. Conductors like Ansermet do not appear very often. He made his orchestra sing. Every phrase sounds just perfect. It is a shame this CD has apparently been deleted but I suspect it will come back on a different Universal label. When it does, make sure you buy it."

Jewels of highest calibre!

Hiram Gomez Pardo | Valencia, Venezuela | 08/13/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

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Has really there been any other conductor capable to perform Chabrier with such refinement level ?. That's a question without no answer. Because Ansermet devoted and specialized as anybody else in this genre (the other conductor would be Stokowski).



As a matter of fact, after the brilliant triumph of his version of the "The three cornered hat" and the acclaimed success of that album, Ansermet decided to record (and rescue) these vanished treasures regarded for many minor orchestral works. The emphasis for achieving the centre of the sound, the accurate phrasing and this Spaniard expression deserved the most overwhelming admiration and better praises.



Chabrier's España was the first orchestral work to win the unanimous praise of experts for having achieved the genuine sounding Spanish style in 1883. No less than De Falla the great Spanish composer who crossed over the Apennines with his vast and recognized works, affirmed. "I venture to say that no Spaniard has succeed better than Chabrier in giving us with such authenticity and genius, the variety if the jota shouted by the country folk of Aragon. "



Chabrier's music obviously owns much more emotion than depth. Indeed the orchestration leaves us with to much to say, but the emotion and lyrical flight aroused involves you like many other similar contemporaries around the world. He may be labelled as a talented miniaturist that inspired to De Falla, Albeniz and Granados to find in this music reasons to endure.



If you really want to have the definitive compilation of Chabrier's orchestral works, don't seek anymore, because you have arrived to the state of art versions.



A jewel of thousand carats.

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