El-Khoury - Orchestral Works Volume 2 | Naxos 8557692

El-Khoury - Orchestral Works Volume 2

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8557692

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 26th February 2007

Contents

Artists

Gérard Poulet (violin)
Abdel Rahman El Bacha (piano)
David Lively (piano)
Orchestre Colonne

Conductor

Pierre Dervaux

Works

El-Khoury, Bechara

Meditation poetique, op.41
Piano Concerto, op.36
Poeme no.1, op.11
Poeme no.2, op.22
Serenade no.1, op.10 'Feuilles d'Automne'
Serenade no.2, op.20

Artists

Gérard Poulet (violin)
Abdel Rahman El Bacha (piano)
David Lively (piano)
Orchestre Colonne

Conductor

Pierre Dervaux

About

The Franco-Lebanese composer and poet Bechara El-Khoury is a master of orchestration, and defines his artistic credo as that of ‘setting to music human nature and its passions’. 
 
This third Naxos disc of his orchestral works features the Piano Concerto, which evolves rhapsodically in a succession of contrasting sections, the lyrical Méditation poétique and two Poems for piano and orchestra, each inspired by the music of the Maronite, Catholic and Byzantine churches in the Lebanon, heard during the composer’s youth. 
 
It also includes two smaller-scale Serenades, which reveal the more contemplative and intimate side to El-Khoury’s music.
 
Here is a composer with a gripping and approachable voice who is well worth getting to know. We should remember his name and mark his career.” MusicWeb on 8.557043

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