Orchestral, 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 is alert to every surprise and vagary, with especially fine playing from the woodwind...Ippolito’s own contribution is full of imaginative off-piste moments, but for me the great... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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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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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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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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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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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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It’s simple: [Järvi] takes the lunacy [in the Ibert] to an inspired new level, from the very first ear-splitting trombone raspberry. The Tapiola Sinfonietta...plays with guts, virtuosity, and... —
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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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Special offer. Strauss: Don Quixote - Ibert: Le Chevalier errant
Amihai Grosz (viola), Jian Wang (cello)
Orchestre National de Lyon, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider
In the Strauss, the viola and cello duet prettily, with a real sense of courtly dialogue. The Ibert, which also takes Quixote as its muse, is full of atmosphere and filmic vibrancy. —
