by David Stark | Sep 28, 2011 | Recordings
Released May 2007. Roussel’s two most successful works, the ballet Bacchus et Ariane and Symphony No. 3 demonstrate his mature, neo-classical idiom. The Third Symphony, one of a number of works commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra for its fiftieth anniversary...
by David Stark | Sep 11, 2011 | Recordings
Released March 2010. Following a period of soul-searching during the mid-1920s, and as his music gained success outside France during the 1930s, Albert Roussel took the rhythmic dynamism, thematic integration and formal lucidity of his Third Symphony (8.570245) to new...
by David Stark | Aug 29, 2011 | Recordings
Released March 2010. This is one of the most persuasive and idiomatic Roussel discs in the CD catalogue and I enthusiastically commend it to you.’ Words I used in a review that coupled the Second Symphony with the Suite in F and Pour une fête de printemps. It now...
by David Stark | Jul 29, 2011 | Recordings
Released August 2006. Prokofiev’s enchantingly surreal commedia dell’arte masterwork is turned into a spectacular triumph of total theatre in this vital production from the Amsterdam Muziektheater. De Nederlandse Opera has chosen to use the more flexible French...
by David Stark | Feb 15, 2010 | Recordings
Bel Air Classiques Isabelle Guerin, Laurent Hilaire Paris Opera Ballet Paris Opera Orchestra Conductor Stéphane Denève DVD Running time: 103 mins Click here to...
