Debussy in Paris, a certain happiness

Preamble 2: RCA if I had been, I would not have chosen a leader's portrait for the cover alone. I would have shown, for example one in the middle of training musicians heard on this disc, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France, that is, some nights, the first French orchestra today.

I had read that Mikko Franck, born in Helsinki in 1979, is a talented chef, and he developed a great understanding with this orchestra, which is confirmed here. He runs fairly regularly this training, despite his health problems.

This wonderful program begins with images (Gigues Iberia, Spring Round). Yes certainly, in this work, particularly Pierre Monteux was with the LSO (Philips) Images / The Martyrdom Of St. Sebastian, Pierre Boulez in Cleveland (DG) Images / Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun / Spring and before all the others in my opinion Ernest Ansermet (Decca), and then the admirable Stokowski (Emi) and Fritz Reiner for the sole Iberia (RCA). But once you said that, we can only pay tribute to the quality of the result presented here. It draws the ear early in Gigues, even if we can find the British sky for once uncluttered, too blue, and prefer environments busiest mystery. Among the most interesting moments of a very careful execution, the start of Morning of a holiday, with its fancy and colorful winds and Round Spring, with their sensual intoxication.

One can also regret place the lower strings are not more sound, more, more fluffy. But there are nuances and wonderful as it was said in the previous post, a very large visibility that allows to hear a lot of exciting things.

Admirable performance of Spring, juvenile diptych where the orchestra shows what he can do and manages to paint suggestively reverie of the first part, as the festive exuberance of the second.

Album Summit, the Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. If it seems at first very delicate, like the flute Magali Mosnier, he then animates very natural; the execution gives a feeling of total fulfillment. The cliché is that our orchestras have the finest woods in the world, and if it were true?

This recording of 2006 (venue: Studio 103 of Radio France), and it was published in 2009. The outstanding prints in this directory are rarer in recent years, one might think, and it deserves special attention it seems to have got.