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The French Touch

~ Paul [composer] Dukas (Composer), Cesar Franck (Composer), Maurice Ravel (Composer), Camille Saint-Saens (Composer), Charles Münch (Conductor), et al.
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Track Listings

1. The Sorcerer's Apprentice
2. Omphale's Spinning Wheel, Op.31
3. Mother Goose: Pavan Of The Sleeping Beauty
4. Mother Goose: Hop-O'-My-Thumb
5. Mother Goose: Laideronette, Empress Of The Pagodas
6. Mother Goose: Beauty And The Beast Converse
7. Mother Goose: The Fairy Garden
8. Le Chasseur Maudit: The Peaceful Sunday Landscape
9. Le Chasseur Maudit: The Hunt
10. Le Chasseur Maudit: The Curse
11. Le Chasseur Maudit: The Demons Chase

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Amazon.co.uk Review
One soon forgets about the analogue hiss (and comparatively measly playing-time!) in the face of orchestral playing of such consummate refinement and breathtaking brilliance. Munch's Sorcerer's Apprentice sets out a little stiffly, but the adrenaline soon kicks in, and there's a properly giddy sense of spectacle at its cataclysmic, fanfare-topped apex. Likewise, Saint-Saëns's winsome tone-poem receives a performance of compelling power and polish: the Boston strings paint an incomparably elegant picture of Queen Omphale sitting at her spinning-wheel, while the minor-key central portion resounds with a hitherto unparalleled, slumbering menace. Note, too, the unexpected pathos Munch locates in the closing minutes. With Ravel's lovely Mother Goose ballet suite comes the most affectionate performance of the four: there's some ravishing phrasing in both "Tom Thumb" and the concluding "Fairy Garden", and pungent characterisation is the order of the day elsewhere (especially in "Beauty and the Beast", with its growling double-bassoon contribution). That just leaves Franck's dashing Le chasseur maudit, excitingly (if perhaps just a little heartlessly) dispatched here. Certainly, RCA's expert remastering ensure that these classic recordings have never sounded better. --Andrew Achenbach

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