I have just finished watching and listening this interesting and much-recorded orchestra under F-X Roth, performing in a small
concert-hall / theatre in Tourcoing, a former industrial town near
the Belgian border, with which the orchestra is associated. It is an all-French programme: Debussy, Lalo, Massenet, Roussel, Dukas, Ravel. Finger-wobbling among the strings indicated limited vibrato, and as
usual the use of period instruments is most obvious among the brass -
cornets as well as trumpets, Vienna horns, small bore trombones,
although of course there were French bassoons and a kind of
three-quarter length contrabassoon as well. Some works I hadn't heard
before: Massenet's 'Scenes alsaciennes' and Lalo's Suite from
'Namouna' (there are apparently two of them).
I would like to remind those of us on welfare that Arte is free.
Andrew Clarke
Canberra
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/112736-000-A/meisterwerke-der-franzoesischen-musik/
Andrew Clarke <andrewc...@gmail.com> wrote:
I have just finished watching and listening this interesting and much-recorded orchestra under F-X Roth, performing in a small
concert-hall / theatre in Tourcoing, a former industrial town near
the Belgian border, with which the orchestra is associated. It is an all-French programme: Debussy, Lalo, Massenet, Roussel, Dukas, Ravel. Finger-wobbling among the strings indicated limited vibrato, and as
usual the use of period instruments is most obvious among the brass - cornets as well as trumpets, Vienna horns, small bore trombones,
although of course there were French bassoons and a kind of
three-quarter length contrabassoon as well. Some works I hadn't heard before: Massenet's 'Scenes alsaciennes' and Lalo's Suite from
'Namouna' (there are apparently two of them).
I would like to remind those of us on welfare that Arte is free.
Andrew Clarke
Canberra
I haven't heard much of his 'modern instrument' orchestra, the Gurzenich
in Hamburg
On 8 Jan 2023 Andrew Clarke wrote:
I haven't heard much of his 'modern instrument' orchestra, the Gurzenich in HamburgThat orchestra is based in Köln, aka Cologne.
Chris
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