Debussy, Roussel & Dukas - CD review - RLPO/Hindoyan
Just listening to this new Onyx disc from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and it’s new chief conductor Domingo Hindoyan. The disc is French ballet music- Debussy: Jeux and Prelude l’Apres-midi D’un Faune, Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane Suite 2 and Dukas: La Peri - the fanfare & poeme danse. It was recorded in January and February 2022. I heard this orchestra and its conductor live in January in rather different fare, Bruckner 8, and I was pleased to hear many of the delights cultured under the previous incumbent were still in place: fabulous brass, distinct woodwinds with fabulous leads and a gutsy string section with real depth to their tone. The disc marries the two well enough known ballets by Debussy with the less familiar ballets by Roussel and Dukas. La Peri is fantastic - delicate, detailled and delicious. Dukas worked on his compositions with such precision that the intensity of his vision shines through with astonishing clarity. And Hindoyan doesn’t compromise. This is a fant
