For his debut disc as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic’s chief conductor, Domingo Hindoyan has brought together three of the most significant French ballet scores of the first half of the 20th century. Paul Dukas’s La Péri and Debussy’s Jeux, both arguably their composers’ greatest orchestral achievements, were first performed within 13 months of each other, in 1912 and 1913 respectively, while Albert Roussel’s Bacchus et Ariane dates from 1931. Hindoyan opts for the second suite that Roussel extracted from his score.
