
Player: Orchestre de Paris Conductor: Daniel Barenboim Soloist violin: Itzhak Perlman Composer: Édouard Lalo, Lille (1823) - Paris (1892). Date recording: 1981 Illustrated with Goya's paintings. Francisco de Goya, Zaragoza (1746) - Bordeaux (1828). ____________________________ I'm sorry about some images, I only wanted to express the characters of an epoch. ____________________________ Lalo's Symphonie espagnole is al that its title implies: a highly original blend of concerto, symphony, and carácter-piece. It is among the earliest manifestations of the fascination of French composers with the culture and music of Spain, preceding Carmen itself; it was composed in 1874, although only performed, by its dedicatee, the great Sarasate, in the year of Carmen, 1875. Like that of Bizet, Lalo's idiom is a characteristically French mid-century blend of operatic, balletic, and virtuoso styles. The melodic, harmonic and rhythmic traits of Spanish music are superimposed. Lalo may not have been a particularly original composer, but he was a skilled violinist, had a real flair for orchestral colour, a lively melodic invention and an interest in the simpler symphonic forms, elements which in this work combine most fruitfully to delight us.
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