Description
Jean-Jacques Kantorow follows his critically acclaimed recording of music by Edouard Lalo with a second disc featuring two further works that were originally intended for Sarasate, the brief Fantaisie-ballet on themes from Lalo's ballet Namouna, and the large-scale Concerto russe.The Concerto russe borrows themes from two wedding songs included by Rimsky-Korsakov in his collection 100 Russian Folk Songs.The disc closes with the Piano Concerto from 1888 - the composer's final major work, played by Pierre-Alain Volondat.