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This album, pairing Dukas’s \u003cem data-start=\"461\" data-end=\"488\"\u003eThe Sorcerer’s Apprentice\u003c\/em\u003e, Saint-Saëns’s \u003cem data-start=\"504\" data-end=\"530\"\u003eOmphale’s Spinning Wheel\u003c\/em\u003e, and Ravel’s \u003cem data-start=\"544\" data-end=\"559\"\u003eMa mère l’Oye\u003c\/em\u003e, distilled that identity into thirty-odd minutes of color, wit, sensuality, and technical polish. 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