Escales

Composers: Chabrier, Duruflé, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Ibert, Massenet, Ravel
Compositions: French orchestral works
Performers: Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Catalogue Number: Chandos CHSA5252

British conductor John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London – a reincarnation of the ensemble that recorded film scores in the 1950s and 60s – dive into the shimmering colours of fin de siècle French music in their second release on Chandos. Escales: French Orchestral Works – which follows the success of Wilson’s critically acclaimed Korngold release with the orchestra last year – pulls together preoccupations that infused French music of the era from picturesque musical postcards to evocations of the ‘Exotic’ mythologies of ancient Greece...