As a sample of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and conductor Hans Vonk's work together, this disc combining Gabriel Fauré's incidental music to Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande with Arnold Schoenberg's tone poem on the same subject cannot be bettered. Though other recordings in this series featured works by Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Debussy, and Ravel, this disc's combination of the two fin de siècle composers' takes on the same subject is revelatory. Not only does it highlight the enormous stylistic distance ...
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As a sample of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and conductor Hans Vonk's work together, this disc combining Gabriel Fauré's incidental music to Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande with Arnold Schoenberg's tone poem on the same subject cannot be bettered. Though other recordings in this series featured works by Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Debussy, and Ravel, this disc's combination of the two fin de siècle composers' takes on the same subject is revelatory. Not only does it highlight the enormous stylistic distance between Fauré's reserved but still moving incidental music and Schoenberg's violently passionate tone poem, but it also reveals the versatility and virtuosity of the conductor and orchestra. With pungent winds, secco strings, and balances allowing each group of instruments to be heard, the Saint Louis sounds positively French in the Fauré, while with warmer winds, sweeter strings and balances blending the instruments into a seamless whole, they sound convincingly Austrian in the...
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