Impassionated chamber musician, a rather secret man, Edouard Lalo must have crossed the second half of the 19th Cy without being sure to be born at the right time. A few works composed for the virtuosi among his friends (think about the Symphonie espagnole, dedicated to Sarasate) protected him against the complete oblivion, but his catalog is still under-estimated if we see which various qualities it shows. Together with Franck and Saint-Saëns, he is one of the major French symphonic composers of his time, and his best works are present on this new cd: his Symphony in G, full of temperament, and romantic as no other ; an ultra-lyrical cello concerto, which can be considered as a model for several subsequent works for the same forces; and the celebrated overture for Lalo’s best known opera, Le Roi d’Ys, opening the doors of the mythic city of Ys, to be swallowed by the ocean. The Liege Philharmonic Orchestra, under the acute baton of Jean-Pierre Haeck, promotes the virtues of these three works with a contagious enthusiasm ; young David Cohen, London Philharmonia’s first soloist, confirms that he is one of the European cellists with whom one has can rely for the future.