Klaus Mäkelä’s second album with the Orchestre de Paris completes a mini-series celebrating scores written for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in the buzzing Paris of the early 1900s.
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‘The headline feature of this terrific Petrushka is characterisation. It’s a performance full of animation and incident and, from the Orchestre de Paris and their impressive line-up of wind sol ... ‘I was particularly impressed with the gorgeous timbres of Mäkelä’s wonderfully evocative account of Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, and the performance of the incredibly subtle an ... ‘Mäkelä’s energetic and detailed reading of Pétrouchka offers a fresh perspective on Stravinsky’s evolving voice. While this release faces stiff competition from recordings that prioritize dram ...