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Ondrej Lenard - French Festival

French Festival
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Artist: Ondrej Lenard
Conductor: Ondrej Lenard
Composer: Emmanuel Chabrier
Composer: Claude Debussy
Composer: Gabriel Faure
Composer: Benjamin Godard
Composer: Jacques Offenbach
Composer: Maurice Ravel
Composer: Camille Saint-Saens
Composer: Erik Satie
Conductor: Keith Clark
Orchestra: CSR Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava)
Orchestra: Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava)
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2009-07-28
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
  1. Marche joyeuse - CSR Sym Orch/Ondrej Lenard
  2. Pavane pour une enfante defunte - CSR Sym Orch/Kieth Clark
  3. Pelleas & Melisande: Sicilienne - CSR Sym Orch/Ondrej Lenard
  4. Jocelyn, Ste No.2: Berceuse - CSR Sym Orch/Ondrej Lenard
  5. Preludes II No.7: La Terrasse des audiences du clair de lune - CSR Sym Orch/Ondrej Lenard
  6. Gymnopedies II - CSR Sym Orch/Ondrej Lenard
  7. Gymnopedies I - CSR Sym Orch/Ondrej Lenard
  8. Tales of Hoffman: Intermezzo - CSR Sym Orch/Kieth Clark
  9. Ste Bergamasque: Clair de lune - CSR Sym Orch/Kieth Clark
  10. Pavane Op.50 - CSR Sym Orch/Kieth Clark
  11. Tales of Hoffman: Barcarole - CSR Sym Orch/Kieth Clark
  12. Berceuse Op.16 - CSR Sym Orch/Kieth Clark
  13. Danse macabre - CSR Sym Orch/Kieth Clark

Music reviews of French Festival

Music Review: Dreamy, wistful music with surrealistic atmosphere
Rating: 4 Stars

Unlike the Spanish and Italian Festivals in the same series, Naxos' French Festival presents music by indigenous composers (unless one counts Jacques Offenbach as a German). Chabrier's 'Joyeuse marche' with which the disc begins is an almost over-lively piece with some brash brass and provides a stark contrast to the mostly tender, wistful and gentle music which is to follow. Ravel, Fauré, Godard and Débussy all contribute short pieces, some of them extracted from other works, which create a dreamy, almost surrealistic atmosphere that may not be typical of France, but is perhaps typical of French music at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. A special treat is given with Erik Satie's Gymnopédies I and II which are here done very well and deserve praise: Satie was something of an odd-ball, but this music can make one curious to know more. The one-hour long programme closes with another faster piece, Saint-Saens' 'Danse macabre', a witty dance of death with clanking skeletons and a spooky violin. All in all, I would say that you have to be in the right mood to enjoy this music, but that it is comparatively well performed and therefore excellent value for money.
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