Download, Ibert (composer)
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Orchestral players will travel long distances to make music with [Wilson] and this recording shows why…It’s far from being all noise, the woodwind in particular being exquisitely agile…All the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2020, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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The orchestra's colourful delivery and rhythmic precision are exceptional throughout, but for me Ravel's Miroirs is the real highlight, its Spanish-inflected verve full of flair. —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2026, Editor's Choice
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This disc reveals much of interest to explore beyond the familiar items. Feérique sparkles, and the symphonic suite Paris finds Ibert at his most inventive, mixing jazzy playfulness with suave... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Honegger & Ibert: L'Aiglon
Anne-Catherine Gillet, Hélène Guilmette, Tyler Duncan, Étienne Dupuis, Marc Barrard, Philippe Sly, Julie Boulianne, Isaiah Bell, Pascal Charbonneau, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Kimy McLaren
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano
Conducted with care and palpable affection by Kent Nagano, [this release] boasts a fine, mostly francophone ensemble cast, with not a weak link anywhere. At its centre…is Anne-Catherine Gillet’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2016, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2016, Winner - Première au Disque
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Opera, July 2016, Recording of the Month
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a musical personality of a beguiling charm, a quality rarely encountered in today's more severe musical climate...You are reminded, too, of a naturalness and insouciance far removed from so... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Re-issue of the Month
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Les Vents Français: French Music for Winds & 20th Century Wind Quintets
RecommendedLes Vents Français (Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Francois Leleux (oboe), Gilbert Audin (bassoon), Radovan Vlatkovic (horn)
individually, they play with attractive timbre and immaculate intonation and articulation. Collectively, they blend their colours with great finesse, within dynamics ranging from cushioned pianissimo... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th January 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Special offer. French Ballet Music of the 1920s
RecommendedL’Éventail de Jeanne, ballet in one act by ten French composers; Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel, ballet in one act by members of the group Les Six
Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon
The zany exuberance of Les mariés, concocted by five of Les Six in the 1920s, is infectiously captured in this colourful reissue, as is L'éventail, a contemporaneous ten-composer collaboration. —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The complete solo 78-rpm recordings & Fauré LPs reveals an artist with a crystalline touch and a sure feeling for balance and rubato. There is a tendency to take fast pieces very fast, which... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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Special offer. Milhaud: Le Boeuf sur le toit, La Création du Monde, Poulenc: Les Biches
Ulster Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier
Here is 1920s French music directed by a conductor who's completely in the spirit of it, and plenty of spirit there is, too. Except for Ibert's Divertissement, this is ballet music. Poulenc's... —
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Hans Rosbaud Conducts French Music
Monique Haas (piano), Südwestfunkorchester Baden-Baden, Hans Rosbaud
The transfers are more than satisfactory. An extremely fine collection, much to be recommended, and not only to the aficionado. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Historical
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2023, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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