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Jean Fournet in Prague | Supraphon SU41222

Jean Fournet in Prague

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Label: Supraphon

Cat No: SU41222

Barcode: 0099925412227

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Release Date: 4th March 2013

Contents

Artists

Frantisek Maxian (piano)
Czech Philharmonic Chorus
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Prague Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Jean Fournet

Works

Debussy, Claude

Images pour orchestre
» III Rondes de printemps
» II Iberia
La Mer
Nocturnes (3)

Falla, Manuel de

El sombrero de tres picos (The three-cornered hat)
» Danza del molinero (Miller's dance)
» Danza final
» Los vecinos

Franck, Cesar

Le Chasseur maudit (The Accursed Huntsman), M44
Les Djinns, M45
Les Eolides: Symphonic Tone Poem
Psyche
Redemption: Symphonic Interlude

Artists

Frantisek Maxian (piano)
Czech Philharmonic Chorus
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Prague Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Jean Fournet

About

In the past century, Jean Fournet (1913–2008), a "gentle perfectionist" as some of the critics characterised him, was one of the leading champions of French music throughout the world. In addition to heading globally renowned orchestras (director of the Opera-Comique in Paris, chief conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra), he also left a distinctive footprint in Prague, with the Czech Philharmonic in particular.

He first appeared there as a guest at the Prague Spring festival in 1954, then in January 1961, and for the last time, at the age of 90 (!), in 2003. At the time of the Iron Curtain, Fournet represented for the Czech Philharmonic a rare and precious opportunity to enter the world of French music with the most competent guide there was.

During his visits to Prague between 1963 and 1967, he and the orchestra made the enchanting and highly acclaimed recordings presented on this CD: in their “Anèerl” period, the Czech Philharmonic naturally embraced Fournet’s refinement, sense of form and purity of colours.

The precious recordings, newly remastered, are released on a Supraphon CD for the very first time. Enchanting French flamboyance a la Jean Fournet!

Recorded at the Rudolfinum, Prague, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967

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