This album is a complete recording of Édouard Lalo's concertante works, a challenging undertaking for the collaborating partners.
Recording & Production
The Palazzetto Bru Zane, a center for French Romantic music research, joined the project to provide its expertise.
Performer Biography
Jean-Jacques Kantorow, the conductor for this album, is also a violinist and has recorded 160 discs as a soloist and/or conductor.
Critical Reception
A music writer in 1925 described Lalo's fame as having 'shone a ray of sunshine into the somewhat hazy French music of the end of the nineteenth century'.
Recording & Production
The Liège Philharmonic Hall, where this album was recorded, is known for its fine acoustics and is regularly used as a recording studio for various musical genres.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Édouard Lalo's style is characterized by rhythmic dynamism, an important role for the orchestra, and a musical language often enhanced by subtle exoticism, placing him between Berlioz's legacy and German tradition.
Recording & Production
The recording was a collaboration between the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, the Liège Royal Philharmonic, Outhere Music group (labels Fuga Libera, Zig-Zag Territoires, Alpha Classics), and the Palazzetto Bru Zane.
