Composer: Georges Bizet, Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier, Darius Milhaud, Maurice Ravel
Performer: Alexandra Soumm
Orchestra: Orchestre de Chambre Pelléas
Conductor: Benjamin Levy
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Fuga Libera
Catalogue: FUG813
Release: 2024
Size: 1.17 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Milhaud: Cinéma Fantaisie for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 58b
02. Chabrier: Bourrée fantasque
03. Ravel: Tzigane, M. 76
Bizet: Symphony in C Major
04. I. Allegro vivo
05. II. Adagio
06. III. Allegro vivace
07. IV. Allegro vivace
From the Second Empire to the Roaring Twenties, Alexandra Soumm, the Orchestre de chambre Pelleas and Benjamin Levy paint a ruffled, nostalgic and swaying portrait of the City of Light, spanning seventy years of music.
This recording, a testament to the musical and human affinities forged over many years between these performers, is also a return to the sources of creative fount, with the first recording of Tzigane in the new and the first recording of the orchestration of Emmanuel Chabrier’s Bourree fantasque according to the sketches left unfinished by the composer. From the crinolines of Georges Bizet’s adolescence to the wisps of cigar smoke in the dreamy Brazil of Le Boeuf sur le toit, let’s immerse ourselves in an era when Paris set the tempo for cosmopolitan, carefree celebrations.