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It's that time of year. The strings of lights seem a little bleary, the curbs are lined with dessicated trees, and snow has given way to sleet. It's the perfect time to huddle up at home and indulge a little sweet melancholy, and boy, have Eiji Oue and the Minnesota Orchestra provided the soundtrack for you.
As the liner notes are careful to point out, this is not "nap time," nor is it just mist-and-unicorns dreaminess. It's a wonderfully programmed album that picks up on the theme of reverie as a journey: each piece moves at a docile, ambling pace. Each has a welcome familiarity but none is threadbare from overexposure: Satie's
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Gymnopedies 1 & 3 (in Debussy's elegant orchestration) bookend a collection of instigators to musing: Fauré's Pavane, and Ravel's Pavane for a Dead Princess, Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Solveig's song from Grieg's Peer Gynt; you get the idea. The sentimentality is omnipresent and the sound of the orchestra is massive, but you need fear no schmalz: Oue moves the andantes at a just-leisurely-enough pace and keeps the textures bouyant and clear. Reveries is perfectly suited to daydreaming, but the playing is substantive enough to keep bringing you back to the music.
David Simmons, WQXR
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Works on This Recording
1.
Gymnopédies (3) for Piano: no 1, Lent et douloureux by Erik Satie
Conductor:
Eiji Oue
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Minnesota Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1888; France
Date of Recording: 05/2002
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
Length: 3 Minutes 38 Secs.
Notes: Orchestrated: Claude Debussy
2.
Gymnopédies (3) for Piano: no 3, Lent et grave by Erik Satie
Conductor:
Eiji Oue
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Minnesota Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1888; France
Date of Recording: 05/2002
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
Length: 3 Minutes 4 Secs.
Notes: Orchestrated: Claude Debussy
3.
Pavane, Op. 50 by Gabriel Fauré
Conductor:
Eiji Oue
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Minnesota Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1887; France
Date of Recording: 05/2002
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
Length: 6 Minutes 3 Secs.
4.
Peer Gynt, Op. 23: no 11, Solvejg's Song [Orchestral version] by Edvard Grieg
Conductor:
Eiji Oue
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Minnesota Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1875/1892; Norway
Date of Recording: 05/2002
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
Length: 5 Minutes 30 Secs.
5.
La Vierge: Dernier sommeil de la Vierge by Jules Massenet
Performer:
Anthony Ross (Cello)
Conductor:
Eiji Oue
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Minnesota Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1880; France
Date of Recording: 05/2002
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
Length: 4 Minutes 29 Secs.
6.
I gioielli della Madonna: Act 1 Intermezzo by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Conductor:
Eiji Oue
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Minnesota Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: by 1911
Date of Recording: 05/2002
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
Length: 5 Minutes 9 Secs.
7.
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune by Claude Debussy
Performer:
Adam Kuenzel (Flute)
Conductor:
Eiji Oue
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Minnesota Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1892-1894; France
Date of Recording: 05/2002
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
Length: 10 Minutes 44 Secs.
Notes: Composition written: France (1892 - 1894).
8.
Roméo et Juliette: Le sommeil de Juliette by Charles Gounod
Conductor:
Eiji Oue
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Minnesota Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1867; France
Date of Recording: 05/2002
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
Length: 3 Minutes 17 Secs.
9.
Pavane pour une infante défunte by Maurice Ravel
Conductor:
Eiji Oue
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Minnesota Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1899; France
Date of Recording: 05/2002
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
Length: 6 Minutes 6 Secs.
10.
Andante cantabile for Cello and Strings, Op. 11 by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Conductor:
Eiji Oue
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Minnesota Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: ?1886-88; Russia
Date of Recording: 05/2002
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
Length: 7 Minutes 1 Secs.
11.
Lemminkäinen Suite, Op. 22: no 3, Swan of Tuonela by Jean Sibelius
Performer:
Marni J. Hougham (English Horn)
Conductor:
Eiji Oue
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Minnesota Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1893-1897; Finland
Date of Recording: 05/2002
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
Length: 9 Minutes 30 Secs.
12.
Rêverie by Claude Debussy
Conductor:
Eiji Oue
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Minnesota Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1890; France
Date of Recording: 05/2002
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
Length: 4 Minutes 28 Secs.
Sound Samples
3 Gymnopedies (orch. Debussy): 3 Gymnopedies: No. 1. Lent et douloureux (orch. Debussy)
Reverie (arr. for orchestra)
Peer Gynt, Op. 23: Act IV: Solveigs sang (Solveig's Song)
La vierge: Act IV: Prelude, "Le dernier sommeil de la Vierge" (The Last Sleep of the Virgin)
I gioielli della Madonna Suite: II. Intermezzo
Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
Romeo et Juliette: Act IV: Le sommeil de Juliette
Pavane pour une infante defunte (version for orchestra)
Andante Cantabile (From String Quartet No. 1, Op. 11)
Lemminkainen Suite, Op. 22: II. The Swan of Tuonela
3 Gymnopedies (orch. Debussy): 3 Gymnopedies: No. 3. Lent et grave (orch. Debussy)
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"DEBUSSY? SLOW DOWN.! May 21, 2012
By Richard M. (New York, NY) See All My Reviews
"Debussy's "Reverie" needs more than 4:28 to unfold it's rich beauty. Listen to Eugene Ormandy's rendition at 6:09."
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