{"title":"Paul Dukas","description":"\u003cp\u003e1865–1935. French composer. in the French Impressionism tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBest known for The Sorcerer's Apprentice; small but refined output spanning orchestral, opera, and piano works. Closely associated with the French school around Fauré and Debussy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSignature works:\u003c\/em\u003e The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Piano Sonata in E-flat minor, La Péri, Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, Villanelle for Horn and Piano.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dukas-complete-piano-music-maltempo","title":"Dukas: Complete Piano Music \/ Maltempo","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new recording of all the major works for piano by a foundational figure in French music of the early 20th century. Born in 1865, Dukas could have (and probably did) compose a good deal literally and stylistically in the 19th century, but his fastidious craftsmanship and self-criticism saw him burn far more music than he allowed to survive. All of a sudden, on the turn of the new century, he wrote two large-scale works which bring together a reverence for the recent and long-gone past with bold new thinking of how to write for the piano. Begun in 1899, the Variations take an innocent dance theme by Rameau and subject it to a dazzling sequence of treatments coloured by strict counterpoint, dreamy rhapsody and a Lisztian scale of piano writing. Even more ambitious and contrapuntal in its workings is the 40-minute Piano Sonata which has long been regarded as a summit of fin-de-siècle piano writing. The Sonata has often been compared to Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata for its colossal dimensions, its structural complexities and its tightrope virtuoso writing. Dukas himself later discussed its journey in terms of a symbolic victory over ‘the beast within’, and ‘the triumph of Apollo over the Pythian serpent’. Vincenzo Maltempo follows in the footsteps of virtuosos such as Michel Ponti and Marc-André Hamelin, and shows himself equipped for the task, having already accumulated a critically acclaimed catalogue of hyper-virtuoso repertoire on Piano Classics, including five albums of Alkan, the Hungarian Rhapsodies of Liszt and the complete Sonatas of Scriabin. He possesses the virtuosity to burn which this music demands, but also the poetic sensibility to bring the most subtle nuances of colour to bear on two miniatures from much later in Dukas’s career, a Prélude in memory of Haydn and a deeply felt tribute to the memory of Debussy which makes haunting reference to the Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Piano Classics","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46012601073898,"sku":"5029365101714","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/4169799-2961176.jpg?v=1778238582"},{"product_id":"dukas-falla-liszt-mussorgsky-sorcellerie","title":"Sorcellerie \/ Duo Jatekok","description":"Enchanting tales and timeless legends are the common threads running through this album conceived by Duo Jatekok: Na�ri Badal and Adela�de Panaget are transformed into sorceresses on four hands and two pianos - enchanting guides who lead us through a programme featuring a Faustian pact, magic, and the world of childhood. At it's heart is Liszt's Piano Sonata, brilliantly transcribed for two keyboards by Saint-Saens: 'It illustrates the eternal struggle between the hubris of excess and the tragic fall, between light and darkness', say the duo of this 'Faustian' masterpiece by Liszt, a great admirer of Goethe. In a more carefree but equally fantastical vein is the famous Sorcerer's Apprentice, which Paul Dukas himself transcribed in 1898. The trance-like atmosphere and frenzied dancing continues with Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo (Love the magician). 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Ariane discovers an array of glittering jewels behind the first six doors, but a terrifying reality awaits her as she unlocks the seventh.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e José van Dam is cast as the villainous Barbe-bleue, while taking on the immensely demanding role of Ariane - who does not leave the stage throughout the entire opera - is American soprano Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e -----\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Reviews:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Charbonnet copes well with the extreme demands of Ariane, while Patricia Bardon is excellent as the nurse and it is wonderful to have Jose van Dam for Barbe-Bleu's handful of lines. Most of all, Stéphane Denève's pacing and handling of orchestral texture are spot-on.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e – BBC Music Magazine\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Charbonnet stands up remarkably well to the role's non-stop demands. As her nurse, Patricia Bardon is admirable in a role she has rather made her own on stage and disc. 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There’s no guarantee, of course, that a French conductor will do especially well in French music, and no doubt Jean-Luc Tingaud does not wish to be pigeon-holed or limited only to the music of his countrymen, but he does play all three pieces with a certain idiomatic flair that’s both quite memorable and often excitingly fresh.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, which opens the program, receives a swift and brilliant reading, but also one notable for its naturalness and unforced musicality. Right from the start, in the slow introduction, you will register the way that Tingaud and the RTÉ wind players skillfully build long phrases from Dukas’ melodic fragments, and ensure that the tension never sags. The climaxes also are perfectly judged. La péri, with its opening fanfare brilliantly played, never lapses into the sort of droopy languor that tempts other artists into overindulgence: the music has both rhythm and impetus as well as lusciousness.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  This reading of the Symphony in C major may be the most impressive performance of all. The opening movement is really gripping, and the long coda, which can sound like an artificial appendage, builds in energy right through to the final bars. Kudos to the orchestra for keeping up with some pretty hard-driving conducting here. The central Andante also is beautifully shaped and truly “espressivo”, but with no dead spots, while the lively finale offers a very satisfying conclusion. Although there is no shortage of available recordings of these works, or even discs that present them together, this one is as good as any, and better than most. 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The first piece on this CD, the composer's only symphony, is a bustling work that calls to mind the music of Franck with just a hint of the propulsive dynamism of Beethoven.  The \"Fanfare,\" a grand flourish of orchestral brass, precedes the composer's last work, the ballet 'La Peri.'  A work of sublime beauty, 'La Peri' combines the composer's formal, classicist tendencies with the ravishing impressionism of his contemporaries, Debussy and Ravel.  'L'Apprenti sorcier,' \"a symphonic poem after a ballad of Goethe\" is Dukas' most popular work.  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