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This new album joins an ever-growing catalogue of fascinating repertoire recorded to widespread acclaim by the Buffalo Philharmonic under music director JoAnn Falletta. As a leading recording artist for Naxos, and with a discography comprising some 135 titles, JoAnn introduces her latest highly engaging and eloquently performed programme:
‘I have personally always been drawn to 20th-century French repertoire, and the Buffalo Philharmonic has a gift for playing this music with an extraordinary sense of colour, from the most subtle and muted to a blazing brilliance that paints a breathtaking landscape of sound.’
The French in Spain
DEBUSSY • IBERT • RAVEL
Buffalo Philharmonic OrchestraJoAnn Falletta
This album presents orchestral works by three French composers who saw Spain as a paradise of warmth, fragrance and colour, whether real or imagined. From the vivid evocations of Debussy’s Images and Ibert’s Escales, to the dances and landscapes that inspired Ravel’s Rapsodie espagnole, these masterpieces of Impressionism show the considerable impact Spanish culture had on French composers in the early 20th century.
III. Valencia
Multiple GRAMMY-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta serves as music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and music director laureate of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. She has guest-conducted many of the most prominent orchestras in America, Canada, Europe, Asia and South America. She is a member of the esteemed American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has served as a member of the National Council on the Arts, is the recipient of many of the most prestigious conducting awards, and was named both Performance Today’s Classical Woman of the Year and one of the 50 great conductors of all time by Gramophone magazine.
Founded in 1935, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra [BPO] is Buffalo’s leading cultural ambassador, presenting more than 120 classics, pops and youth concerts each year. Since 1940, the orchestra’s permanent home has been Kleinhans Music Hall, and in 2022 it made its 25th appearance at Carnegie Hall, celebrating the life and works of former BPO music director Lukas Foss. During the tenure of JoAnn Falletta as music director, the BPO has rekindled its distinguished history of radio broadcasts and award-winning recordings, including the release of over 60 albums of diverse repertoire on the Naxos and Beau Fleuve Records labels.
Symphony No. 1
Renaissance Concerto
Three American Pieces • Ode
Porter • Chooi
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Falletta
– BBC Music Magazine ★★★★
Háry János Suite
Summer Evening • Symphony in C Major
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Falletta
– Fanfare
– BBC Music Magazine ★★★★
La Tragédie de Salomé
Musique sur l’eau
Oriane et le Prince d’Amour
Légende
Platts • Chooi
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Falletta
– American Record Guide