Paul Dukas : La Péri - Polyeucte - L'Apprenti sorcier - Czech Philharmonic Orchestra - Antonio de Almeida

It's a Finnwake personal rip (september 2010): 1 zip file with the 4 tracks on ape files (compressed from the original wave files), the 14 page booklet (in English, German, French, Czech), plus front and back cover.

It's a 2000 release on cd of the 1975 original album.

http://www.amazon.com/Dukas-Pe...&qid=1283534828&sr=1-2

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Paul Abraham Dukas (Paris, October 1, 1865 – May 17, 1935) was a French composer and teacher.
He studied under Théodore Dubois and Ernest Guiraud at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he became friends with the composer Claude Debussy. After completing his studies Dukas found work as a music critic and orchestrator; he was unusually gifted in orchestration and was one of the most sensitive and insightful critics of the era. Although Dukas wrote a fair amount of music, he was a perfectionist and destroyed many of his pieces out of dissatisfaction with them. Only a few of his compositions remain. His first surviving works of note are the three concert overtures Goetz de Berlichingen (1883), Le Roi Lear (1883) and Polyeucte (1891) and the energetic Symphony in C (1896), which belongs to the tradition of Beethoven and César Franck. The symphony was followed by another orchestral work, L'apprenti sorcier (English: The Sorcerer's Apprentice) (1897), which is based on Goethe's poem "Der Zauberlehrling". The Sorcerer's Apprentice was used (in a slightly redacted version) in the Walt Disney film Fantasia – a total of perhaps one minute of the ten-and-a-half-minute piece was omitted. Dukas's rhythmic mastery and vivid orchestration are evident in both the Symphony in C and The Sorcerer's Apprentice.


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