FRANZ VON SUPPE: OVERTURES. Charles Dutoit conducting...
FRANZ VON SUPPE: OVERTURES. Charles Dutoit conducting Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal. London digital 414-408-1. Dutoit and his magnificent orchestra play seven colorful and tuneful overtures--from the well-known “Light Cavalry” and “Poet and Peasant” to the rarer “Fatinitza” and “Pique Dame”--with all the attention to detail one would expect to be lavished on a masterpiece. The brasses are brilliant, the woodwinds bright and warm, the strings lush and vibrant (with the liquid cello solos of Guy Fouquet); the phrasing is clean and expressive, the sense of direction and drama unerring.
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