Lyon National Orchestra

Lyon National Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin – Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:06:32 minutes | 2,25 GB | Genre: Classical
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This is the second volume of works by Maurice Ravel from Leonard Slatkin and the Lyon National Orchestra, featuring the composer’s Valses nobles et sentimentales, a vivid mixture of atmospheric impressionism, intense expression and modernist wit. Ravel’s fascination with the waltz is further explored in La valse, a mysterious evocation of a vanished imperial epoch.

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Lyon National Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin – Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:07:03 minutes | 2,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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This album is the first volume in a series of the complete orchestral works of Maurice Ravel, featuring acclaimed American conductor Leonard Slatkin leading the Orchestre National de Lyons. Includes Slatkin’s interpretation of one of the most popular works in all of classical music, Bolero, which Ravel himself called an “orchestrated crescendo.”

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Lyon National Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin – Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:10:06 minutes | 2,33 GB | Genre: Classical
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Leonard Slatkin conducts the Lyon National Orchestra on Berlioz’s remarkable and immensely influential Symphonie fantastique, an autobiographical tale describing a young musician’s opium-poisoned nightmares of jealous despair and fatal justice following the murder of his beloved. Berlioz added a second movement cornet obbligato in a subsequent revision of the score, included here as an optional extra.

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