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Les Siecles 20 anniversary concert on Arte Concert

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Andrew Clarke

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Jan 8, 2023, 7:07:46 AM1/8/23
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I have just finished watching and listening this interesting and much-recorded orchestra under F-X Roth, performing in a small concert-hall / theatre in Tourcoing, a former industrial town near the Belgian border, with which the orchestra is associated. It is an all-French programme: Debussy, Lalo, Massenet, Roussel, Dukas, Ravel. Finger-wobbling among the strings indicated limited vibrato, and as usual the use of period instruments is most obvious among the brass - cornets as well as trumpets, Vienna horns, small bore trombones, although of course there were French bassoons and a kind of three-quarter length contrabassoon as well. Some works I hadn't heard before: Massenet's 'Scenes alsaciennes' and Lalo's Suite from 'Namouna' (there are apparently two of them).

I would like to remind those of us on welfare that Arte is free.

Andrew Clarke
Canberra

Arno Schuh

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Jan 8, 2023, 2:21:53 PM1/8/23
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https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/112736-000-A/meisterwerke-der-franzoesischen-musik/

Andrew Clarke

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Jan 8, 2023, 11:45:11 PM1/8/23
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Thank you, Arno. I haven't heard much of his 'modern instrument' orchestra, the Gurzenich in Hamburg, though I enjoyed their recording of Schumann 1 in the original orchestration.

Best wishes,

Andrew Clarke
Canberra

Chris J.

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Jan 9, 2023, 5:22:32 AM1/9/23
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On 8 Jan 2023 Andrew Clarke wrote:

> I haven't heard much of his 'modern instrument' orchestra, the Gurzenich
> in Hamburg

That orchestra is based in Köln, aka Cologne.

Chris





Andrew Clarke

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Jan 9, 2023, 6:54:36 AM1/9/23
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Thankyou!

Andrew C
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