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Track Listings
| 1. Les Eolides |
| 2. Symphonic Variations |
| 3. Symphony in D minor |
On this CD:
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Symphony in D minor
Composed by César Franck
Conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier
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Symphonic Variations
Composed by César Franck
with Louis Lortie
Conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier
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(Les) Eolides
Composed by César Franck
Conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier
Product Description
BBC Music Magazine
Yan Pascal Tortelier's long series of French music recordings has often proved ideal in tone colour, pacing and expressive style, limited only by the orchestras' technique. Happily the BBC Philharmonic, like the Ulster Orchestra before it, has steadily improved towards performances that appeal more deeply than the relatively slick catalogue conducted by Charles Dutoit - not a current option for Franck's Symphony anyway. This time Les Éolides joins a well-tried pairing. It's a fleet, atmospheric tone poem whose delicacy of sound will surprise listeners who know only the Symphony. Really it is more typical of Franck, as witness at least the Symphony's middle movement. Tortelier feels slow in this latter fusion of scherzo and lyrical interlude, until the pointed vitality of the more animated music vindicates him. The whole Symphony has unusual rhythmic energy and, elsewhere, pace, moving the first movement on so that the big tunes pick up momentum instead of making the structure sag. Incisive brass tone helps the climaxes glow and exult. Again typically fresh, Romantic and fluent in the Symphonic Variations, Tortelier has an evident ally in Lortie, who makes the beginning conversational rather than brusque and unfolds the melodies with broad rubato and a full tonal range. There's a lovely transition to the central variations, and a surging finale. Chandos catches the bright sound colours and keeps resonance under control. Main items become clear choices in the absence of idiomatic alternatives for the Symphony, and for the Variations unless you fancy more offbeat couplings from Roge (ASV) and the historical Cortot (Naxos or Philips).
Yan Pascal Tortelier's long series of French music recordings has often proved ideal in tone colour, pacing and expressive style, limited only by the orchestras' technique. Happily the BBC Philharmonic, like the Ulster Orchestra before it, has steadily improved towards performances that appeal more deeply than the relatively slick catalogue conducted by Charles Dutoit - not a current option for Franck's Symphony anyway. This time Les Éolides joins a well-tried pairing. It's a fleet, atmospheric tone poem whose delicacy of sound will surprise listeners who know only the Symphony. Really it is more typical of Franck, as witness at least the Symphony's middle movement. Tortelier feels slow in this latter fusion of scherzo and lyrical interlude, until the pointed vitality of the more animated music vindicates him. The whole Symphony has unusual rhythmic energy and, elsewhere, pace, moving the first movement on so that the big tunes pick up momentum instead of making the structure sag. Incisive brass tone helps the climaxes glow and exult. Again typically fresh, Romantic and fluent in the Symphonic Variations, Tortelier has an evident ally in Lortie, who makes the beginning conversational rather than brusque and unfolds the melodies with broad rubato and a full tonal range. There's a lovely transition to the central variations, and a surging finale. Chandos catches the bright sound colours and keeps resonance under control. Main items become clear choices in the absence of idiomatic alternatives for the Symphony, and for the Variations unless you fancy more offbeat couplings from Roge (ASV) and the historical Cortot (Naxos or Philips).
Performance *****
Sound ****
© BBC Music Magazine 2001
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