François-Xavier Roth
Publisher
LSO Live
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
None
Description
Debussy's recently discovered Première suite gives a rare insight into the mind of a young composer on the cusp of innovation. It is a work filled with romantic and Eastern influences, and glimpses of the unexpected harmonies that came to define Debussy's output. Pairing the suite with works by some of the composers who influenced the young Debussy, including Édouard Lalo's Cello concerto performed by Edgar Moreau, François-Xavier Roth's programme...
Author
Publisher
Harmonia Mundi
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
None
Description
In the space of three ballets, a previously unknown Russian composer revolutionized the music of his time. With The Firebird and Petrushka, respectively fairytale and folktale, and of course The Rite of Spring, a telluric invocation with its insanely innovative harmonies and rhythms, Stravinsky dynamized the Late Romantic orchestra, taking it too literally unheard-of places. Among the very first musicians to perform these works on the instruments...
Author
Publisher
Warner Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Renaud Capuçon expands his wide-ranging concerto discography with Bartók's two violin concertos. Composed almost three decades apart, they are highly contrasted, inhabiting very different emotional and musical worlds. Partnering Capuçon is the London Symphony Orchestra under its Principal Guest Conductor, François-Xavier Roth.
14) The bells
Series
BBC music magazine collection volume 29, no. 11
Publisher
BBC Music Magazine
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Russian
15) Mirages
Author
Publisher
Erato
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Soprano Sabine Devieilhe's signature operatic role, Lakme, forms the starting point for her enticing collection of opera and songs in French. The album's theme is the exotic allure of faraway, and imagined, places and people.