Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire / »Boléro«

»That old sorcerer has vanished / And for once has gone away! / Spirits called by him, now banished, / My commands shall soon obey.« So begins Goethe’s famous ballad »The Sorcerer’s Apprentice«, in which the sorcerer’s pupil soon realises that »Spirits that I’ve cited / My commands ignore«. Goethe’s rich imagery inspired Paul Dukas, who was ten years the senior of fellow French composer Maurice Ravel, to compose a fantastic symphonic poem.