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Olivier Latry, Jean-Willy Kunz, Kent Nagano - Camille Saint-Saëns, Kaija Saariaho, Samy Moussa (2015)

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Olivier Latry, Jean-Willy Kunz, Kent Nagano - Camille Saint-Saëns, Kaija Saariaho, Samy Moussa (2015)

Camille Saint-Saëns, Kaija Saariaho, Samy Moussa (2015)
Symphony and New Works for Organ and Orchestra
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal; Kent Nagano, conductor
Olivier Latry, organ; Jean-Willy Kunz, organ

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 280 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 154 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Analekta | # AN 2 8779 | Time: 01:06:28

This album is the recording of the inaugural concert of the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique at the Maison Symphonique in Montreal. For grandeur, majesty and sheer tonal opulence, few symphonies can stand beside the Third Symphony of Saint-Saëns. The prominent contribution from the organ, the “King of Instruments,” provides an additional measure of imposing sonority to the work. The entire symphony is based on the principle of continual transformation of a “motto” theme. This theme makes its first full appearance in the restless series of short detached notes in the violins, following the slow, mysterious introduction. The attentive ear will pick out this theme in its rhythmic and coloristic metamorphoses throughout the symphony – at varying times flowing and lyrical, detached and fragmented, broad and noble, or agitated and restless. Olivier Latry is organist at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and organ professor at the Paris Conservatory. His appointment to France’s premier cathedral in 1985 at the age of 23 propelled him onto the international scene: he has appeared in more than 50 countries and on all five continents, as a recitalist or with orchestra.

Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Rafael Payare & Sonya Yoncheva - Strauss: Ein Heldenleben - Mahler: Rückert-Lieder (2024)

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Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Rafael Payare & Sonya Yoncheva - Strauss: Ein Heldenleben - Mahler: Rückert-Lieder (2024)

Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Rafael Payare & Sonya Yoncheva - Strauss: Ein Heldenleben - Mahler: Rückert-Lieder (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 259 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 157 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:04:16
Classical | Label: Pentatone

The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and its Music Director Rafael Payare extend their Pentatone discography with a recording of Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben and Gustav Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder, sung by superstar soprano Sonya Yoncheva. The pairing of works may seem odd at first, with Strauss at his most exuberant and Mahler at his most introspective. They share, however, a deeply personal and autobiographical approach by two giants of fin-de-siècle music coming to terms with the world they lived in and their place in it. After their acclaimed recording of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, Payare and the orchestra further explore this late-Romantic repertoire that fits them like a glove.

Charles Dutoit, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal - Hector Berlioz: Symphonie funèbre et triomphale, Roméo et Juliette (1990)

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Charles Dutoit, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal - Hector Berlioz: Symphonie funèbre et triomphale, Roméo et Juliette (1990)

Charles Dutoit, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal - Hector Berlioz: Symphonie funèbre et triomphale, Roméo et Juliette (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 299 Mb | Total time: 75:06 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | 425 001-2 | Recorded: 1985

Another feather in the Dutoit/Montreal/Decca cap, not least for the sound engineers' achievement in so brilliantly capturing the mammoth sonorities of the Symphonie funebre et triomphale (whose first performance Berlioz conducted walking backwards at the head of his huge wind-and-percussion band, though—alas for the legend!—with a baton, not a sword). For concert hall, rather than open air performance he later added strings and a chorus, and it is this version that is adopted here (as it was in Colin Davis's 1969 Philips recording). Splendid as that issue was, this new one even surpasses it in clarity and impact, with its majestic brass chords and a chorus that adds incisively to the final climax.

Charles Dutoit, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal - Georges Bizet: Symphony in C, La jolie fille de Perth, Patrie (1996)

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Charles Dutoit, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal - Georges Bizet: Symphony in C, La jolie fille de Perth, Patrie (1996)

Charles Dutoit, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal - Georges Bizet: Symphony in C, La jolie fille de Perth, Patrie (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 333 Mb | Total time: 71:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: London Records | # 452 102-2 | Recorded: 1995

These disc were recorded in 1995 during Charles Dutoit's long spell as artistic director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. During that time they made many outstanding recordings with a particular reputation for French and Russian music and a glorious sound recorded in Saint-Eustache church. Dutoit is an ideal conductor for Bizet's music, sufficiently romantic to bring out its drama without letting it become self-indulgent.

Montreal SO & Chorus, Pascal Roge, Charles Dutoit - Ravel: Orchestral Works; Piano Concertos, etc (2005) 4CD Box Set

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Montreal SO & Chorus, Pascal Roge, Charles Dutoit -  Ravel: Orchestral Works; Piano Concertos, etc (2005) 4CD Box Set

Maurice Ravel: Orchestral Works; Piano Concertos;
L'Enfant et les Sortilèges; Shéhérazade (2005) 4CD Box Set
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Chœurs; Charles Dutoit, conductor
Pascal Rogé, piano; John Zirbel, horn; Theodor Baskin, oboe;
Catherine Dubosc, soprano; Timothy Hutchins, flute

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.14 Gb | Scans ~ 33 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | # 475 6891 DC4 | Time: 05:03:53

For listeners who prefer their Ravel lushly textured, luminously colored, and luxuriantly impressionistic, this four-disc set of his orchestral music performed by Charles Dutoit and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal will be just the thing. Recorded between 1981 and 1995 in warmly opulent Decca sound and including all the canonical works plus the two piano concerts and the opera L'Enfant et les sortiléges, Dutoit's approach to Ravel is decidedly sensual, even tactile. One can feel the excitement in the closing "Dance générale" of Daphnis et Chloé, sense the energy in La Valse, smell the sea in Une barque sur l'océan, and touch the dancer's flushed skin in Boléro. This is not to say that details are lost in Dutoit's performances – with the superlative playing of the Montreal orchestra, one can assuredly hear everything in the scores. Nor is this to say that Dutoit neglects the music's clear shapes and lucid forms – with a decisive beat and a clean technique, Dutoit's interpretations are models of clarity. But it is assuredly to assert that, for sheer aural beauty, these recordings cannot be beat. With the very virtuosic and very French playing of Pascal Rogé in the two piano concertos plus very characterful singing in L'Enfant, this set will be mandatory listening for all those who love Ravel.

Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Rafael Payare - Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (2023)

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Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Rafael Payare - Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (2023)

Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Rafael Payare - Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | Digital booklet | 01:07:59 | 305 Mb
Classical | Label: Pentatone

The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and its Music Director Rafael Payare make their Pentatone debut with Mahler’s 5th Symphony. The album is also the first recording under Payare’s tenure, and the beginning of a longer recording relationship with the label. For Payare, the Fifth is the last symphony that shows Mahler still looking forward to what the future might bring, unlike his subsequent, much darker and existential works. Despite that optimism, there is enough tragedy and struggle along the way, resonating with Mahler’s life at the time of creation. Payare’s proficiency in late-Romantic repertoire coupled with the matured, distinctive sound of the Montréal players make this a collaboration to look out for.

Charles Dutoit, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal - Franck: Symphonie; D'Indy: Symphonie sur un chant montagnard (1991)

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Charles Dutoit, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal - Franck: Symphonie; D'Indy: Symphonie sur un chant montagnard (1991)

Charles Dutoit, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal - César Franck: Symphonie; Vincent d'Indy: Symphonie sur un chant montagnard (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 267 Mb | Total time: 66:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 430 278-2 | Recorded: 1989

Gathered here are two masterpieces of late 19th-century French orchestral music. Cesar Franck's Symphony in D minor (1888) is his only symphony. Drawing its lineage from later Beethoven and Schumann, it's very cohesive and its themes are quite distinct, remaining quite popular. Vincent d'Indy's Symphonie su un chant montagnard francais (1886) is a very efficient fusion of a symphony with a piano concerto. The themes are supple yet smoothly integrated into a three-movement tapestry that has also never seen its popularity fade. Many versions of these exist on disc, but Charles Dutoit seems to have a better feel than most.

Charles Dutoit, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal - Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique Op.14 (1985)

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Charles Dutoit, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal - Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique Op.14 (1985)

Charles Dutoit, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal - Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique Op.14 (1985)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 231 Mb | Total time: 54:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 414 203-2 | Recorded: 1984

Maestro Dutoit and his orchestra really make Berlioz' orchestral showpiece glow in all of its colorful splendour, but with enough tenderness and warm lyricism in the more reflective, dreamy parts. But 'Un bal' really sways and swaggers with appropriate grandiloquence. The 'Scene aux champs' is played wonderfully poised and concentrated, but with a lot of warmth as well, helped of course by the mellifluous, wonderfully blended tone of the orchestra.