Jules Massenet - Orchestral Music (Jean-Luc Tingaud)

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Composer: Jules Massenet

• Brumaire Overture
• Visions (symphonic poem)
• Espada Suite
• Les Érinnyes (incidental music)
• Phèdre Overture

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Jean-Luc Tingaud, conductor

Date: 2020

Label: Naxos

https://www.naxos.com/CatalogueDetail/?id=8.574178

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Review

ARTISTIC QUALITY: 9 / SOUND QUALITY: 9

Between JoAnn Falletta and Jean-Luc Tingaud, Naxos seems to be cornering the market when it comes to unusual but worthy repertoire. Tingaud’s specialty, unsurprisingly, has (thus far) focused on French music, and this Massenet collection includes some pretty nifty and rare titles. Visions, for example, is a symphonic poem in Lisztian style dating from 1891, and it’s an imposing and impressive fourteen-minute hunk of good, romantic music. Brumaire is a powerful, militant overture that belies the composer’s reputation as little more than a soft orchestral voluptuary.

The Espada Suite is another in the seemingly endless series of French works with a Spanish flavor, and it’s none the worse for that. Best of all, perhaps, is the incidental music to Érinnyes (The Furies). Dating from 1876, this substantial half hour of music features an extended “Scène religieuse” and a three-movement divertissement full of memorable and vigorous ideas. The program concludes with the darkly dramatic overture Phèdre–like all of the music here very well played and conducted with real conviction. The sonics, too, do the music proud. I love this stuff, and I suspect that you will too.

-- David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday

More reviews:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2020/Dec/Massenet-orch-8574178.htm

https://www.classical-music.com/reviews/orchestral/massenet-visions-brumaire-overture-etc/

https://www.allmusic.com/album/massenet-visions-brumaire-ph%C3%A8dre-overtures-les-%C3rinnyes-mw0003417718

https://www.naxos.com/Review/Detail/?catalogueid=8.574178&languageid=EN

https://www.amazon.com/Visions-Royal-Scottish-National-Orchestra/dp/B08FP5NNW2

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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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After studying the piano and conducting at the Paris National Conservatoire, Jean-Luc Tingaud (born 1969) was chosen by French composer and conductor Manuel Rosenthal to be his assistant. Opera has always been one of Tingaud’s main interests. Since 2001 he has been a regular guest at the Wexford Festival. In the symphonic field, Jean-Luc Tingaud has been named First guest conductor of the Poland based Beethoven Academy Orchestra since September 2019. He is also artistic director of Orchestre-Atelier Ostinato in Paris. His discography includes albums recorded for Fonè, Dynamic and Naxos labels.
http://jeanluctingaud.fr/

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