Claire-Marie LeGuay - Doing wonders with Honegger and Ravel.
Claire-Marie LeGuay – Doing wonders with Honegger and Ravel.

– Orchestre National d’Ile de France – Enrique Mazzola – Claire-Marie LeGuay – live from Bucharest – Sept. 13, 2013 – Radio France Musique

Over to Bucharest Romania this week for a concert by Orchestre National d’Ile de France, led by Enrique Mazzola and featuring the brilliant French pianist Claire-Marie LeGuay in music of Ibert, Honegger, Ravel, Milhaud and Bizet.

This all-French concert comes just a shade over 90 minutes.

Here’s what’s on it:

Concert for September 13, 2013 at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest (Romania)

1. Jacques Ibert
Bacchanal

2. Arthur Honegger
Concertino for Piano and Orchestra, H 55 *

3. Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major *

Encore
4. Maurice Ravel
Sad birds, excerpts from “Mirrors” *

5. Darius Milhaud
Le Boeuf sur le Toit

6.Maurice Ravel
Suite No. 2, taken from ” Daphnis and Chloe ”

Encore
7. Georges Bizet
The toreadors, excerpt from “Carmen Suite # 1”

Claire-Marie Le Guay , piano * Orchestre National d’Ile de France Enrique Mazzola direction

Excellent concert – definitely Anti-Road Rage Wednesday material.

Crank it up and relax – Friday is only two days away . . .