French Orchestral Works
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Composer or Director: Charles-François Gounod, Georges Bizet
Label: Decca
Magazine Review Date: 7/1991
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 67
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 430 231-2DH

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Petite symphonie |
Charles-François Gounod, Composer
Charles-François Gounod, Composer Christopher Hogwood, Conductor Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra |
Symphony No. 1 |
Charles-François Gounod, Composer
Charles-François Gounod, Composer Christopher Hogwood, Conductor Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra |
(L')Arlésienne - Suites |
Georges Bizet, Composer
Christopher Hogwood, Conductor Georges Bizet, Composer Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra |
Composer or Director: Charles-François Gounod, Georges Bizet
Label: Decca
Magazine Review Date: 7/1991
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 430 231-4DH

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Petite symphonie |
Charles-François Gounod, Composer
Charles-François Gounod, Composer Christopher Hogwood, Conductor Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra |
Symphony No. 1 |
Charles-François Gounod, Composer
Charles-François Gounod, Composer Christopher Hogwood, Conductor Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra |
(L')Arlésienne - Suites |
Georges Bizet, Composer
Christopher Hogwood, Conductor Georges Bizet, Composer Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra |
Author: Christopher Headington
The Petite symphonie is delightfully done by nine expert players who deserve to have been named in the booklet. It's a later piece and a more original one in that it uses only wind instruments and is really a chamber work: in fact it was written for a chamber music society of wind players. Agreeable if bland, with an especially attractive scherzo, it shows that the composer's dictum that ''France is essentially the country of precision, neatness and taste'' was entirely true for his kind of Frenchness, if by no means that of Berlioz or Barraque.
The Bizet work here reflects a stronger personality, and the selection of numbers from his incidental music to Daudet's
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