Lalo - Symphonie Espagnole [Bell/Dutoit]
Here's the companion piece to Saint-Saens Violin Concerto 3 i played last month [30th May 2011], i'm not quite sure what my favourite Violin Concerto is, it's either out of Bruch 1, Sibelius, or this Lalo work, and this disc by Joshua Bell is an excellent coupling, last year this work featured in my Blog five times.
Joshua Bell is American, now 43 years old, he made this recording in 1988.
Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole is a wonderful work, 5 movements of extreme variety, each of the 5 pieces seems to explore the five opposite corners of the Spanish idiom, and each of them were terrific today, but again i seem to settle on that middle third movement, the 'Intermezzo',
Here's Sylvia Marcovici playing the third movement on YouTube.
