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The Art of Charles Dutoit | Decca 4757930

The Art of Charles Dutoit

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Label: Decca

Cat No: 4757930

Barcode: 0028947579304

Format: CD + DVD

Number of Discs: 7

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 21st January 2008

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Contents

Works

Mendelssohn
The Hebrides - Overture

Berlioz
Les Francs-Juges - Overture

Suppe
Light Cavalry - Overture

Saint-Saens
Le Rouet d’Omphale

Chabrier
Espana

Respighi
Fontane di Roma

Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy overture

Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade

Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch.Ravel)

Kodaly
Hary Janos - Suite

Kodaly
Dances of Galanta

Bartok
Concerto for Orchestra

Debussy
Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune

Ibert
Escales...

Ibert
Bacchanale

Ravel
Ma Mere l’Oye - Complete ballet

Gershwin
An American in Paris

Poulenc
Suite Française

Poulenc
Les Biches - Suite

Stravinsky
Symphony in C

Stravinsky
Symphony in Three Movements

Stravinsky
Petrouchka

Stravinsky
Four Studies for Orchestra

Stravinsky
Le Sacre du Printemps

Artists

Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal
Philharmonia Orchestra
Orchestre National de France
L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Conductor

Charles Dutoit

Works

Mendelssohn
The Hebrides - Overture

Berlioz
Les Francs-Juges - Overture

Suppe
Light Cavalry - Overture

Saint-Saens
Le Rouet d’Omphale

Chabrier
Espana

Respighi
Fontane di Roma

Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy overture

Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade

Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch.Ravel)

Kodaly
Hary Janos - Suite

Kodaly
Dances of Galanta

Bartok
Concerto for Orchestra

Debussy
Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune

Ibert
Escales...

Ibert
Bacchanale

Ravel
Ma Mere l’Oye - Complete ballet

Gershwin
An American in Paris

Poulenc
Suite Française

Poulenc
Les Biches - Suite

Stravinsky
Symphony in C

Stravinsky
Symphony in Three Movements

Stravinsky
Petrouchka

Stravinsky
Four Studies for Orchestra

Stravinsky
Le Sacre du Printemps

Artists

Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal
Philharmonia Orchestra
Orchestre National de France
L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Conductor

Charles Dutoit

About

Charles Dutoit was born at Lausanne on 7 October 1936. He studied violin and music theory at Lausanne Conservatory and had his first conducting lessons there. Moving on to Geneva, he obtained a diploma in conducting and in the late 1950s gained practical experience as a conductor. Further conducting studies included a period at Tanglewood with Charles Münch in 1959. In 1964 Dutoit was appointed second conductor of the Berne Symphony Orchestra and became principal in 1967. Dutoit first appeared with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal as guest conductor in 1977 and later that year he was appointed Music Director.

Dutoit had already made a number of records with various orchestras and soloists for Decca when he signed an exclusive long-term recording contract with Decca in 1980. This was the start of a remarkable recording partnership with Montreal which produced numerous outstanding recordings of predominantly French repertoire. The Dutoit/Montreal partnership lasted over 20 years and during that time a number of major orchestral tours gave audiences around the world the opportunity to hear for themselves the magic created by this conductor and orchestra.
Dutoit also appeared as a guest conductor with many orchestras and held appointments and worked regularly with the Philadelphia Orchestra, London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, NHK Tokyo, and the Orchestre National de France – to name but a few. With all of these – and other orchestras – Dutoit recorded many albums.

This 6-CD orchestral spectacular features mainly recordings with the OSM but the Orchestra National de France is also included in Poulenc, while the Philharmonia is included with a popular tone-poem by Saint-Saëns (the earliest recording included here), and among the various works by Stravinsky – a composer Dutoit has always had great success with – is his recording of the two Stravinsky orchestral symphonies with the Suisse Romande (a recording that has been deleted for some time and which has been requested for reissue on a number of occasions).

By way of a special bonus, a DVD is included in which Dutoit conducts a Prokofiev programme of a suite from Romeo and Juliet with dancers from the Toronto Dance Theatre and a performance of the “Classical” Symphony … but this is no “standard” orchestral concert …!

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