Saint-Saëns: Symphonic Poems Orchestre National de Lille & Jun Märkl

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Album-Release:
2017

HRA-Release:
01.12.2017

Label: Naxos

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Orchestral

Artist: Orchestre National de Lille & Jun Märkl

Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

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  • Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921):
  • 1Phaéton, Op. 39, R. 17008:20
  • 2Marche héroïque, Op. 34, R. 16806:45
  • 3La jeunesse d'Hercule, Op. 50, R. 17215:57
  • 4Le rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31, R. 16908:05
  • 5Sarabande et rigaudon, Op. 93: Sarabande06:24
  • 6Sarabande et rigaudon, Op. 93: Rigaudon02:51
  • 7Danse macabre, Op. 40, R. 17107:06
  • Total Runtime55:28

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Though Berlioz and, to a lesser extent, Franck wrote symphonic poems, it is Saint-Saëns who has been largely credited with introducing the genre to France. A wide orchestral palette and stirring reserves of drama are used to evoke the youthful audacity and death of Phaéton, the ultimate triumph of virtue over pleasure in La Jeunesse d’Hercule (’The Youth of Hercules’), and Hercules’ punishment, spinning wool while dressed as a woman, for the ‘inadvertent murder’ of one of his guests, in Le Rouet d’Omphale (‘The Spinning Wheel of Omphale’). The ever-popular Danse macabre is a spooky depiction of Death playing a dance on his fiddle on a tomb in a graveyard surrounded by skeletal dancers.

Conductor Jun Märkl specialises in twentieth-century French music for Naxos and has earned international plaudits for his multi-volume Debussy series as well as for his Ravel and Messiaen discs.

Of the final Debussy volume (Volume 8 on 8.572584) MusicWeb International wrote: “The orchestral playing is exemplary and the sonics are first rate. There’s just enough resonance to deliver a true Debussian sound to the listener but all the inner details can still be clearly heard. Both conductor and orchestra were in splendid form during this session.”

The Orchestre National de Lille has previously recorded Dutilleux’s Symphony No. 2 ‘Le Double’, Timbres, espace, movement, Mystère de l’instant with GRAMMY®

Award-nominated conductor Darrell Ang on Naxos (8573596), which received an ‘Excepcional’ rating from Scherzo magazine. And ClassicsToday.com wrote “the performances make all the right points of transparency, fluidity, and expressive precision.”

Orchestre National de Lille
Jun Märkl, conductor

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