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FRENCH IMPRESSIONS - ICMA Winner 2012 - Best CD of the year


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(© 2011 on Warner Classics)

Rachel Kolly d'Alba | FRENCH IMPRESSIONS

Release date: CH 09.2011 - France/Italy 10.2011 - ROW 11.2011

with: Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire
John Axelrod, conductor
Orchestre Symphonique de Bienne,
Jean-Jacques Kantorow


This CD won the International Classical Music Awards 2012, as best CD of the year in the "concerto" category. This CD is dear to Rachel as it features her world: music from the beginning of the century, in France and Belgium. Chausson, Ysaÿe. Saint-Saëns and Ravel… we follow the development of the french music between the late romanticism 1880 to the imaginative impressionism in 1920...

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Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) : Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3 in B Minor:
Allegro non troppo [8:41]
Andantino quasi allegretto [8:13]
Allegro Molto [11:01]

EugèneYsaÿe (1858-1931)
Berceuse de l'enfant pauvre Op. 20 [4'14]

Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
Poème for Violin and Piano, Op. 25 [18:02]*

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Tzigane [10:12] *

Eugène Ysaÿe
Rêve d'enfant Op. 16 [4:35] (orchestration made by R. K.d'A. following the manuscripts)

* recorded with the ONPL and Maestro John Axelrod
with the
SOB and Maestro Jean-Jacques Kantorow

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Rachel Kolly d’Alba about new CD « French Impressions », released worldwide October 1st 2011

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