{"id":1210,"date":"2025-05-10T09:23:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T09:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juanjomena.com\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2025-05-10T09:29:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T09:29:37","slug":"french-works-for-violin-and-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juanjomena.com\/en\/discografia\/french-works-for-violin-and-orchestra\/","title":{"rendered":"French Works for Violin and Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>March 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pablo de Sarasate was born in Pamplona, Spain, and became an acclaimed virtuoso of the violin by the tender age of twelve. The child prodigy was sent away to study at the Paris Conservatoire, and Sarasate spent the rest of his life in Paris. In demand nationally and internationally as a soloist, he was the dedicatee of a large number of important concertos by composers ranging from Max Bruch to Henryk Wieniawski. Lalo\u2019s Symphonie espagnole was composed for Sarasate, who gave the Paris premi\u00e8re, in 1875. The work is laid out in five movements and bristles with Spanish themes, rhythms, and influences, which were very much the vogue in France at that time. Also composed for Sarasate, the Third Violin Concerto of Saint-Sa\u00ebns was composed in 1880. Written in his usual clear, refined, almost classical style, the work has endured as the most played of his three violin concertos. The album is completed with Sarasate\u2019s own fantasia on Bizet\u2019s Carmen \u2013 a virtuosic tour de force for the soloist, brilliantly played here by James Ehnes.<\/p>\n<p>Edouard Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole, Op.21 (1874)<br \/>\nCamille Saint-Sa\u00ebns: Violin Concerto No.3, Op.61 (1880)<br \/>\nPablo de Sarasate: Concert Fantasy on Bizet\u2019s \u2018Carmen\u2019, Op.25 (1881)<\/p>\n<p>You can see full track listings and download the audio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chandos.net\/products\/catalogue\/CHAN%2020333\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Philharmonic<br \/>\nJames Ehnes (violin)<br \/>\nJuanjo Mena (conductor)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discografia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juanjomena.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juanjomena.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juanjomena.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juanjomena.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juanjomena.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juanjomena.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/juanjomena.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juanjomena.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juanjomena.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juanjomena.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juanjomena.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}