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I Was at the march 22 Coffee Concert. It Featured The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas (1865-1931), Edouard Lalo's (1823-1892) Cello concerto in D, and Cesar Franck's (1822-1890) Symphony in D. The conductor was Gilbert Varga who is the son of Hungarians violinist Tibor Varga. The solo Cello was German cellist Daniel Muller-Schott.
Paul Dukas was a French composer who has only left around a dozen or so works. The Sorcerer's Apprentice is his most famous one. It was used in Walt Disney's movie Fantasia. One of the inspiration for this work was Der Zauberlehring a poem by German writer Johan Goethe. I may have seen Fantasia when I was younger. I vaguely remember this music. I am not in to Disney fan. I liked the performance of Lalo's Cello Concerto. Lalo was a Frenchmen from northern France. His main work is Symphonie Espagnole which is actually a violin concerto in five movements. It as the title suggests is passed on Spanish songs. He wrote another violin concerto which is not as popular. I have a copy of this wok on the Deutsche Grammophon label. It is coupled with Camille Saint-Saens' Cello Concerto #2 (Opus#33) and Max Bruch's Kol Nidrei (opus#47) The later work is based on Hebrew Melodies sang at Yom Kippur. It features James Levine conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Matthew Haimovitz as the soloist. Overall I liked this performance it is not like the version that I am used to. Lalo wrote one surviving symphony. I like this work also. There are four versions available. I have the Giancarlo Andretta conducting the Basal Philharmoinc version which is on the CPO label which I recommend. the last version was Cesar Frank's Symphjony in D. He was a Belgian composer who made his living in France. He taught at the Paris Conservatory. this is his only symphony. The French of that gereration did not write as many sympnonies. His other famous work was Panis Angelicus which is part of the Catholic liturgical cycle. He also wrote the Symphonic Varations for piano and Orchestra. Franck wrote mostly organ music. The symphony fuses together both French and Austrian elements. It is only in three movements. The versiton that I have is that of Loren Maazel conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra on the Duetsche Grammophon label which I recommend. Overall the concert was enjoyable. These works are not as known as they should be
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