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Bizet: L’Arlésienne Suites

& music by Faure & Gounod

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Kazuki Yamada

[Yamada] draws playing both exquisite and passionate from his orchestra. If the colours of Faure's score are very different, they nonetheless tread the same fine line between chamber music economy...

Bizet: L’Arlésienne Suites

& music by Faure & Gounod

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Kazuki Yamada

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[Yamada] draws playing both exquisite and passionate from his orchestra. If the colours of Faure's score are very different, they nonetheless tread the same fine line between chamber music economy...

About

This is the first album of a series of three which feature ballet/theatre/dance music.

The first one comprises music by French composers amongst them the very popular Arlésienne suites by George Bizet in performances by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande which has a long standing reputation for its performances of French music.

Next years this album will be followed by an album with ballet/dance/theatre music by German composers, and in 2015 by Russian composers.

Contents and tracklist

I. Prélude
Track length6:50
II. Minuetto
Track length3:06
III. Adagietto
Track length3:58
IV. Carillon
Track length4:48
I. Pastorale (Arr. E. Guirand for Orchestra)
Track length5:42
II. Intermezzo (Arr. E. Guirand for Orchestra)
Track length4:02
III. Menuet (Arr. E. Guirand for Orchestra)
Track length4:16
IV. Farandole (Arr. E. Guirand for Orchestra)
Track length3:23
I. Ouverture
Track length3:45
II. Menuet
Track length2:50
III. Gavotte
Track length3:36
IV. Pastorale
Track length4:52
I. Les Nubiennes, valse
Track length2:47
II. Adagio
Track length4:34
III. Danse Antique
Track length1:47
IV. Variations de Cléopâtre
Track length1:44
V. Les Troyennes
Track length2:56
VI. Variations du Miroir
Track length2:05
VII. Danse de Phryné
Track length2:46

Awards and reviews

June 2014

[Yamada] draws playing both exquisite and passionate from his orchestra. If the colours of Faure's score are very different, they nonetheless tread the same fine line between chamber music economy and the lure of the sensual...Grace abounds in this performance [of Faust].
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