Bizet: Symphony in C • Jeux d'enfants
Debussy: Danses pour harpe et orchestre

Classics Today.com [July 27, 2012]:
"Haitink's Bizet Symphony always has been a reference recording, distinguished by its stunning playing (marvelous oboe solo in the second movement) and unfailing elegance of phrasing. Tempos are swift enough to generate plenty of rhythmic energy, but never too swift to preclude innumerable details of characterful articulation or to allow skewed balances that blur the all-important wind writing. Listening to this performance is simply a joy from first note to last, and the warm Concertgebouw acoustic adds its own particular sheen to the finished product." --David Hurwitz (from the review of Eloquence 476 7417)

GEORGES BIZET (1838-1875)
Symphony No. 1 in C
01. I. Allegro (Allegro vivo) [7:45]
02. II. Andante (Adagio) [9:33]
03. III. Scherzo (Allegro vivace) [5:29]
04. IV. Finale (Allegro vivace) [6:23]
«Jeux d'enfants» Op. 22 - Petite suite
05. I. Marche: Trompette et tambour [2:11]
06. II. Berceuse: La poupée [2:53]
07. III. Impromptu: La toupie [1:02]
08. IV. Duo: Petit mari, petite femme [2:58]
09. V. Galop: Le bal [1:46]
CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862-1918)
Danses pour harpe et orchestre
10. I. Danse sacrée [4:39]
11. II. Danse profane [4:35]

Vera Badings, harp
CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA, AMSTERDAM
BERNARD HAITINK

Recorded: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, 9/1977 (Bizet); 12/1977 (Debussy)
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