Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole
Alexandre da Costa (violin)
Orquesta Sinfónica de Radiotelevisión Española, Carlos Kalmar
Kantorow's fluent, spontaneous performance admirably demonstrates the music's more sparkling side...[Namouna is] colourful music, often memorable, and is very well served by these neat, lively...
Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole
Alexandre da Costa (violin)
Orquesta Sinfónica de Radiotelevisión Española, Carlos Kalmar
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Kantorow's fluent, spontaneous performance admirably demonstrates the music's more sparkling side...[Namouna is] colourful music, often memorable, and is very well served by these neat, lively...
About
Following the "Fire and Blood" CD of music by Michael Daugherty (0825646719570),
Canadian/Spanish violinist Alexandre da Costa is teamed with the Spanish Radio & TV Orchestra to perform Lalo's popular violin spectacular, Symphonie Espagnole. Coupled with two suites from the rarely heard ballet by Lalo and a short Scherzo for violin and orchestra.
"Among too many stupid ballets," Debussy wrote at the turn of the century, "Lalo's Namouna is something of a masterpiece." When finally finished the ballet only ran for 15 performances but sensing that he'd given some of his best inspiration to Namouna, Lalo salvaged a great deal of it in two suites, recomposing and re-orchestrating much of the music.
Contents and tracklist
- Alexandre da Costa (violin)
- Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Televisión Española
- Carlos Kalmar
- Alexandre da Costa
- Orquesta Sinfónica de la Radio Televisión Española
- Carlos Kalmar
- Alexandre da Costa
- Orquesta Sinfónica de la Radio Televisión Española
- Carlos Kalmar
- Alexandre da Costa
- Orquesta Sinfónica de la Radio Televisión Española
- Carlos Kalmar
Awards and reviews
June 2013
Kantorow's fluent, spontaneous performance admirably demonstrates the music's more sparkling side...[Namouna is] colourful music, often memorable, and is very well served by these neat, lively performances.
7th March 2013
Ideally the work should smile more, but there's also no doubt that this makes a fine, radical alternative to more traditional extrovert versions. Da Costa's tense, reined-in playing is admirably matched by the Spanish Radio/Television Orchestra under Carlos Kalmar, though the same qualities don't work half as well when transferred to Namouna
