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Mahler - van Dieren - Ravel - Delage - Stravinsky - Zemlinsky - Oriental Inspirations
[…] beauties are legion, although, even after a number of hearings, I’m not yet convinced that the symphony adds up to an organic whole. Still, I do feel it’s worth persevering – which is precisely why recordings such as this are so invaluable. The couplings are hardly less tantalising. The Introit to Topers’ Tropes from 1921 (intended as the orchestral prelude to a large-scale choral work based on ‘The Discourse of the Drinkers’ from Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel) rouses itself from hazy slumber to bacchanalian revelry over 13 quirky minutes. Delius meets Busoni in the Elegie for cello and orchestra, probably written around 1910 and another agreeably individual essay that contains some genuinely haunting inspiration.I’m happy to report that William Boughton secures commendable results from a strong line-up of singers and his assembled BBC NOW forces; Raphael Wallfisch is at his customarily eloquent, self-effacing best in the Elegie. Excellently recorded in Cardiff’s […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-04-04 19:03:50
Salvador Dalí, Book Illustrator
“Throughout the second half of his life, Dalí had a curious side-project … illustrating the Western canon: Don Quixote and Macbeth in 1946; The Divine Comedy between 1951 and 1964; the Bible between 1963 and 1964; Alice in Wonderland in 1969; Henry V and Henry VI in 1970; The Life of Gargantua and Pantagruel in […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-10-20 21:55:44
High and Low Mingle in A Far Cry
[…] the rapture so evident in the score; a slower tempo sometimes felt unnecessarily reserved. Still, AFC compelled, as strong lyrical lines presided over the substantial lower strings; pellucid arpeggios in the final moments provided an ethereal aura. Pinsky returned in the second half in a more substantial role as the narrator for Jean Françaix’s Les inestimable chronique du bon géant Gargantua, an adaption of François Rabelais’s 16th-century satirical novel La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel. Françaix’s adaptation conveys the early life of Gargantua, swooping from an Ovidian creation myth of the giants to a Biblical genealogy that culminates in Gargantua’s being born to the giant, the Lord Grandgousier. Gargantua grows up to study at the Sorbonne, but after finishing, is conscripted into a battle against the bakers of the Lord Picrochole. Françaix sets the drama with playful wit, draping the musical drama around the narration. Françaix’s musical language strives […]
2013-12-21 23:34:00
[…] "Las guerras picrocholinas" is a curious score of 1974 that wasn´t premièred during his life. Although it was presented as part of the Tercer Ciclo Iberoamericano de Ópera Contemporánea, I don´t think it´s an opera; its 53 minutes are rather made up of incidental music (vocal and instrumental) and a long acted text based on François Rabelais´ "Pantagruel". It was a world première edited by Melos; the French text adapted by Jacques Nichet and Bernard Faivre was translated into Spanish; the hand programme doesn´t specify the translator, nor is it quite clear that Tauriello wrote the piece to the French text. Rabelais lived between circa 1494 and 1553 and his combined masterpiece is […]
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