Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns
Orchestra: Orchestre National de Lille
Conductor: Jun Märkl
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Release: 2017
Size: 0.98 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Saint-Saëns: Phaéton, Op. 39
02. Saint-Saëns: Marche héroïque, Op. 34, R. 168
03. Saint-Saëns: La jeunesse d’Hercule, Op. 50, R. 172
04. Saint-Saëns: Le Rouet d’Omphale, Op. 31
Saint-Saëns: Sarabande et Rigaudon, Op. 93
05. Sarabande
06. Rigaudon
07. Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, Op. 40
A wide orchestral palette and stirring reserves of drama are used to evoke the youthful audacity and death of Phaéton, the ultimate triumph of virtue over pleasure in La Jeunesse d’Hercule (‘The Youth of Hercules’), and Hercules’ punishment, spinning wool while dressed as a woman, for the ‘inadvertent murder’ of one of his guests, in Le Rouet d’Omphale (‘The Spinning Wheel of Omphale’). The ever-popular Danse macabre is a spooky depiction of Death playing a dance on his fiddle on a tomb in a graveyard surrounded by skeletal dancers. Conductor Jun Märkl specialises in twentieth-century French music for Naxos and has earned international plaudits for his multi-volume Debussy series as well as for his Ravel and Messiaen discs.