by David Stark | Sep 29, 2011 | Recordings
Released May 2010. Prélude, choral & fugue Symphonic Variations Prelude, Aria & Final Les Djinns Symphonic Poem Prelude, fugue & variation Following his highly acclaimed award-winning debut album on Naïve, Bertrand Chamayou collaborates with one of...
by David Stark | Sep 29, 2011 | Recordings
Released November 2009. Résurrection, Roussel’s first orchestral work, is a delicate and mysterious piece inspired by Tolstoy’s last novel, while Le marchand de sable qui passe (The Sandman) is a tuneful, colourfully orchestrated suite. His Symphony No. 1 ‘Poem of the...
by David Stark | Sep 29, 2011 | Recordings
Released April 2008. A perennial outsider in French music, Albert Roussel was the tutor of a whole generation of composers, including such diverse figures as Eric Satie and Edgard Varèse. The three works inclided here outline the transitional phase in which...
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...
