François-Xavier Roth (Conductor)
Born: 6th November 1971, Neuilly sur Seine, France
Nationality: French
François-Xavier Roth was born into a musical family in Paris in 1971, and initially trained as a flautist before studying conducting; he won the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition in 2000, which led to him spending two years as Assistant Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra (with whom he has subsequently recorded the Bartók violin concertos and The Panufnik Legacies – a collection of new works by ten young composers commissioned as part of the LSO Panufnik Scheme).
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Recording of the Week,
Saint-Saëns symphonic poems from François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles
A selection of Saint-Saëns's luscious orchestral pieces - familiar and less-known, and including a real treasure from the very dawn of the cinematic era - get the Les Siècles treatment, leaping off the page thanks to intelligent and sensitive performances on period instruments.
Recording of the Week,
L'Heure espagnole from François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles
Period instruments lend a delicious piquancy and wit to Ravel's Franco-Spanish farce about a libidinous clock-maker's wife intent on making the most of her husband's absence, with a stylish cast led by French mezzo Isabelle Druet.
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