Chaminade: Callirhoë - Ballet Symphonique & Concertstück for piano and orchestra - Dutton: CDLX7339 - SACD

The piano part [of the Concertstück] is full of the vertiginous scampering we find in so much 19th-century French piano music, to which Victor Sangiorgio does full justice; but perhaps Cecile... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 5th May 2017
Catalogue No: CDLX7339
Label: Dutton
Series: Epoch

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Chaminade: Callirhoë - Ballet Symphonique

BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Yates

Chaminade: Concertstück for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 40

Victor Sangiorgio (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Yates

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The year 1888 was a remarkable one for French pianist-composer Cécile Chaminade. Her large-scale “ballet symphonique” Callirhoë was produced at Marseilles on 16 March, and a few weeks later, on 18 April, there followed the Concertstück for piano and orchestra, well received in Antwerp and soon across the world. Here they make a cherishable coupling, and Callirhoë is recorded in its complete form for the first time, proving to be a delightful and varied discovery. Chaminade is remembered for her many piano miniatures and mélodies, but soloist Victor Sangiorgio’s brilliant performance of the Concertstück for piano and orchestra, in which he effortlessly projects its flamboyant pianism, reminds us of what a romantic and affecting composer Chaminade could be when given an extended musical canvas.

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Christmas 2017

The piano part [of the Concertstück] is full of the vertiginous scampering we find in so much 19th-century French piano music, to which Victor Sangiorgio does full justice; but perhaps Cecile Chaminade’s main talent lay in her orchestration, which both here and in the ballet is unfailingly bright and well-balanced.

Chaminade: Callirhoë - Ballet Symphonique & Concertstück for piano and orchestra

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