Special offer. Jean Françaix: Music for String Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti Chamber Orchestra, Budapest, Kerry Stratton
[The Camellias] and the slight but touching Ode on Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, are recorded here for the first time. The Symphony for Strings from 1948 is better known, but plays into the...
Special offer. Jean Françaix: Music for String Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti Chamber Orchestra, Budapest, Kerry Stratton
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[The Camellias] and the slight but touching Ode on Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, are recorded here for the first time. The Symphony for Strings from 1948 is better known, but plays into the...
About
Jean Françaix (1912–97) has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the happier composers, his Gallic charm and breezy good humour obscuring the superb craftsmanship of his writing.
Françaix once observed that ‘I live in exile in my own country and am nourished from abroad’. Plus ça change, he then might have thought, with this CD presenting a Hungarian ensemble led by a Canadian conductor on a British label.
The disc presents two first recordings and a rare hearing for one of his more substantial scores.
Françaix having been born in 1912, the CD marks his centenary.
Contents and tracklist
- Solti Chamber Orchestra
- Kerry Stratton
- Solti Chamber Orchestra
- Kerry Stratton
- Solti Chamber Orchestra
- Kerry Stratton
Awards and reviews
31st January 2013
[The Camellias] and the slight but touching Ode on Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, are recorded here for the first time. The Symphony for Strings from 1948 is better known, but plays into the hands of those who dismiss Françaix's music as frivolous and lightweight
