Orchestre National Des Pays De La Loire Rophe - Festin de L'araigneeUnder it's music director Pascal Roph, l'Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire (ONPL) here performs two great orchestral spectaculars of French music scintillating and imaginative scores composed only 15 years apart. A perennial favorite, Paul Dukas' symphonic poem The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1897) became a 'hit' with the general public after being included in the soundtrack of the Disney animation film Fantasia in 1940. In the work, based on a

they've taken in what they've made and how they've made it

601-670 and in his own arrangements of his chamber music like the Sonata in three movements V

The disarming title track opens the album to find Ferrara at work

was released on CD in 1994

"A scintillating achievement

the entertaining plot mirrors that of a successful comedy published a decade earlier: Armore e veleno e medicina degl'intelletti o vero Trespolo tutore by the Florentine Giovanni Battista Ricciardi

initiation into secret rites

The oldest work

They stayed true to their unalloyed country style

The band is as sharp as the man himself on this one

the burning desire of new lovers and affection for friends and family

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