Lalo: Cello Concerto / Symphony in G Minor / Namouna
3/1/2007, 13 Tracks, 1:14:49
Featuring
Kees Bakels
Torleif Thedéen
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
Édouard Lalo
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Critical Reception
The ballet Namouna was booed by the audience and taken off after only a dozen performances, but musicians like Debussy and Fauré considered it a masterpiece.
Performer Biography
The Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, led by founding music director Kees Bakels, gave its inaugural performance in 1998 and is funded by PETRONAS.
Composer Biography
Édouard Lalo, despite his Mediterranean-sounding surname, was born in northern France; his ancestors had left Spain for Flanders in the 16th century.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Lalo considered Germany his "true musical homeland" and admired the rhythmic and harmonic innovations of composers like Schumann, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn.
Composer Biography
Lalo's father, a former soldier, intended for his son to have a military career, but Édouard refused and left home at 16 to pursue music in Paris.
Composition History
Lalo's ballet Namouna was so demanding that he suffered hemiplegia, and Charles Gounod had to help him finish the orchestration.
Performer Biography
Cellist Torleif Thedéen gained international recognition in 1985 by winning three of the world's most prestigious cello competitions.
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