Page 440 - Liverpool Philharmonic 22-23 Season Coverage Book
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5 October 2022
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Jeux
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Bacchus et Ariane, Op 43: Act 2
Paul Dukas (1865-1935)
Fanfare to La Péri
La Péri
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Domingo Hindoyan
rec. 2022, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, UK
Reviewed as a digital download from a press preview
ONYX 4224 [68]
Hindoyan very sensibly sets out his stall in repertoire that seems purposely
designed to differentiate him from his illustrious predecessor at the helm of the
RLPO. Much as I admire Petrenko, he doesn’t stand out in my memory as a
purveyor of highly perfumed French music. It also happens that, on the evidence
of this disc, Hindoyan is rather good at this sort of thing. Anyone accustomed to
hearing them in Petrenko’s beloved Russians, might even be surprised as how de
luxe they sound. The RLPO long ago left behind any notion that they are merely a
