French Works for Violin and Orchestra Classical Orchestral & Concertos Chandos

French Works for Violin and Orchestra

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CHAN 20333

French Works for Violin and Orchestra

CD UPC: 0095115233320

Release Date: March 2025
Originally recorded in April 2024

Composer
Édouard Lalo

Composer (1835–1921)
Camille Saint-Saëns

Composer (1844–1908)
Pablo de Sarasate

Solo Violin
James Ehnes

Conductor
Juanjo Mena

Orchestra
BBC Philharmonic

Producer
Mike George

Engineer
Stephen Rinker

Assistant Engineer
Tom Parnell

Venue 10-11 April 2024
MediaCity UK, Salford, Manchester

Genre:
Classical
Orchestral & Concertos

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ÉDOUARD LALO

Symphonie espagnole, Op. 21 (1874)

32:20

in D minor• in d-Moll • en ré mineur

for Violin and Orchestra

À Son Ami P. Sarasate

Allegro non troppo – Sans ralentir

7:34

Scherzando. Allegro molto – Poco più lento – Tempo I – [ ] – Tempo I

4:08

III

Intermezzo. Allegretto non troppo – Un peu plus lent –Tempo I

6:11

Andante

6:04

Rondo. Allegro – Sans ralentir – Poco più lento – Poco più lento –

8:08

Accelerando poco a poco – Accelerando – Tempo I [Allegro] – Sans ralentir

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS

(1835–1921)

Concerto No. 3, Op. 61 (1880)

27:04

in B minor • in h-Moll • en si mineur

for Violin with Orchestral Accompaniment

À Monsieur P. Sarasate

Allegro non troppo

8:14

Andantino quasi allegretto – Molto tranquillo

8:27

III

Molto moderato e maestoso – Più mosso –Allegro non troppo – Più allegro

10:15

PABLO DE SARASATE

(1844–1908)

Concert Fantasy on Bizet’s ‘Carmen’, Op. 25 (1881)

12:28

Fantaisie de Concert

À Monsieur Hellmesberger, Directeur du Conservatoire de Vienne

Introducción [Entr’acte before Act IV]. Allegro moderato –

2:45

10.

[Act I, Habanera.] Moderato – Più animato –

3:00

11.

[Act I, ‘Tra la la... Coupe-moi, brûle-moi’.] Lento assai – Pressez – A tempo – Pressez – Lento – Tempo I

2:18

12.

III

[Act I, Séguedille.] Allegro moderato – Più animato –

1:54

13.

[Act II, Chanson bohème.] Moderato – Pressez – Animato

2:30

Conductor: Juanjo Mena

Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic

Zoë Beyers leader

About

Pablo de Sarasate was born in Pamplona, Spain, and became an acclaimed virtuoso of the violin by the tender age of twelve. The child prodigy was sent away to study at the Paris Conservatoire, and Sarasate spent the rest of his life in Paris. In demand nationally and internationally as a soloist, he was the dedicatee of a large number of important concertos by composers ranging from Max Bruch to Henryk Wieniawski. Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole was composed for Sarasate, who gave the Paris première, in 1875. The work is laid out in five movements and bristles with Spanish themes, rhythms, and influences, which were very much the vogue in France at that time. Also composed for Sarasate, the Third Violin Concerto of Saint-Saëns was composed in 1880. Written in his usual clear, refined, almost classical style, the work has endured as the most played of his three violin concertos. The album is completed with Sarasate’s own fantasia on Bizet’s Carmen – a virtuosic tour de force for the soloist, brilliantly played here by James Ehnes.

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'...the final movement finds Ehnes at his best, fizzing with fleet-footed energy.'

Christopher Dingle - BBC Music Magazine - April 2025

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