Edouard LALO (1823-1892) : Le Roi d'Ys, Symphonie Espagnole, Concerto Russe - I. Stern, G. Poulet

Full justice may be done to Lalo’s work on the occasion of his bi-centenary in 2023. Its eminently French style purity, its sharpness, clarity and beguiling colourfulness would ensure a triumph for dedicatee violinist Pablo de Sarasate and acclaim for the Spanish flavour of the Symphony, followed in the 20th century by Stern, Oistrakh and Perlman. Sarasate paid little heed to the Concerto’s haunting Russianness whose exquisite splendour was only revealed in 1993 by Gérard Poulet in Prague.

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