Welcome to the weekend and your Sunday Morning Concert. Your featured composer today is one of the lesser known of the many great French composers, Eduardo Lalo. Yet his music is exciting and very listenable. Easily his most celebrated piece is his Symphony Espanol, a popular work in the standard repertoire for violin and orchestra. Lalo's idiom is notable for strong melodies and colorful orchestration, with a rather Germanic solidity that distinguishes him from other French composers of his era. I have his two most popular works still in the modern concert repertoire to share with you today.
Posted down below is Lalo's Cello Concerto in D Minor with a performance by the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel, captured live in Concert in September 2005 with William Molina Cestari as the Cello Soloist. The concert was in celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the System of Youth and Children's Orchestras of Venezuela.
Over on my tumblr is his Symphony Espanol, Opus 21.
Today’s performance was recorded live for France3 TV at the Rhone-Alpes
Auvergne Auditorium with the Orchestra National de Lyon under the baton
of David Roberson featuring Vadim Repin as the Soloist.
For your visual entertainment, I have a boatload of beautiful boys and men au natural in this week's edition of Naked or Nearly So! posted own below. Over on my tumblr, your Hottie of the Day!, Cameron, sizzles off the page and into your heart! Thanks for sharing part of your Sunday with me, see you again soon! Until next time as always, Enjoy!
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