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Friday, November 3, 2017

Jules Massenet - Orchestral Suites Nos. 4-7 (Jean-Yves Ossonce)


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Composer: Jules Massenet
  • (01-04) Scènes pittoresques (Orchestral Suite No. 4)
  • (05-07) Scènes napolitaines (Orchestral Suite No. 5)
  • (08-11) Scènes de féerie (Orchestral Suite No. 6)
  • (12-15) Scènes alsaciennes (Orchestral Suite No. 7)

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Jean-Yves Ossonce, conductor

Date: 1995
Label: Naxos
http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.553125

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Review

Massenet’s orchestral suites are in essence picture-postcard music, but they include plenty of tunes (perhaps not always first-rate ones) and the scoring has characteristic Gallic charm and colour. Best known are the somewhat ingenous Scènes pittoresques and the Scènes alsaciennes. The most touching movement is the beautiful Sous les tilleuls (‘Under the Lime Trees’), with its wilting dialogue between cello and clarinet, played here with an affectionate finesse worthy of a Beecham. With full, sparkling, yet warmly atmospheric recording, this is a first-class disc in every way.

-- Penguin Guide, January 2009

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During the late 19th century in France, composers either wrote for the theater (opera or ballet) or they wrote nothing at all. Chamber music and music for orchestra was comparatively rare right up until the turn of the century. Only in the 1880s did Auguste Franck and Camille Saint-Saëns write symphonies that gave later French composers a model for the form, and such lively early works as Georges Bizet's single Symphony had to wait more than 80 years for a first performance. That makes these colorful, lively suites by Jules Massenet all the more unusual, and they deserve a much wider exposure in today's concert halls. As you can hear for yourself, they are charming, tuneful, and not a minute too long.

-- David Hurwitz, Amazon Editorial Review

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Jules Massenet (12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty, made him the leading composer of opera in France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.. He also composed oratorios, ballets, orchestral works, incidental music, piano pieces, songs and other music. Massenet taught composition at the Paris Conservatoire from 1878 until 1896. Among his students were Gustave Charpentier, Ernest Chausson, Reynaldo Hahn and Gabriel Pierné. Massenet's his operas are widely accepted as well-crafted and intelligent products of the Belle Époque.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Massenet

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Jean-Yves Ossonce began his international career in 1991 in Great Britain where he was regularly invited to conduct BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC National Orchestra of Wales. From 1999 to 2016, he was Artistic Director of l'Opéra de Tours and l'Orchestre Symphonique Région Centre-Tours, and he devoted a great part of his activities to regional musical life during this period. Ossonce has made several recordings for labels such as Hyperion and Timpani. He conducts a wide range of lyric and symphonic works combining well-known repertoire with lesser known works.
https://www.agenceartistiquecedelle.com/jean-yves-ossonce

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