Dukas Symphony in C

As Dukas was Composer of the Week on Radio 3 it seemed a good opportunity to listen to his one and only symphony on iplayer: a work I have never heard before. It may be an old cliche that the French don't write symphonies, and this certainly isn't my favourite period in music, but I found this symphony uninteresting. I can't deny it was well-constructed, but it wasn't memorable and there was something of a feeling of aspriring to be Bruckner, but nowhere  near as good.
There is also a cliche to say it is unfair to remember Dukas for anything but the Sorcerer's Apprentice, but maybe Dukas really didn't do anything good enough to escape the shadow of Micky Mouse.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XChxLGnIwCU