Saint-Saëns: Le carnaval des animaux - Poulenc: Double Concerto Alex Vizorek, Duo Jatekok, Orchestre National de Lille & Lucie Leguay

• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921):
• 1 Saint-Saëns: Introduction (Récit) 01:58
• Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125:
• 2 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Introduction 00:28
• 3 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Marche royale du lion (Récit) 00:41
• 4 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Marche royale du lion 01:28
• 5 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Poules et coqs (Récit) 00:46
• 6 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Poules et coqs 00:44
• 7 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Hémiones (animaux véloces) (Récit) 00:40
• 8 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Hémiones (animaux véloces) 00:38
• 9 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Tortues (Récit) 00:55
• 10 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Tortues 01:59
• 11 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: L'éléphant (Récit) 01:01
• 12 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: L'éléphant 01:32
• 13 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Kangourous (Récit) 00:50
• 14 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Kangourous 01:01
• 15 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Aquarium (Récit) 01:11
• 16 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Aquarium 02:35
• 17 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Personnages à longues oreilles (Récit) 00:39
• 18 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Personnages à longues oreilles 00:51
• 19 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Le coucou au fond des bois (Récit) 01:01
• 20 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Le coucou au fond des bois 02:27
• 21 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Volière (Récit) 00:45
• 22 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Volière 01:14
• 23 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Pianistes (Récit) 01:56
• 24 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Pianistes 01:16
• 25 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Fossiles (Récit) 00:41
• 26 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Fossiles 01:18
• 27 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Le Cygne (Récit) 00:47
• 28 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Le Cygne 02:56
• 29 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Finale (Récit) 00:34
• 30 Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, R.125: Finale 01:57
• Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963): Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in D Minor, FP 61:
• 31 Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in D Minor, FP 61: I. Allegro ma non troppo 08:23
• 32 Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in D Minor, FP 61: II. Larghetto 05:28
• 33 Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in D Minor, FP 61: III. Allegro molto 06:01
• Camille Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, Op. 40:
• 34 Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, Op. 40: Introduction sur un poème de Henri Cazalis 00:55
• 35 Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, Op. 40 07:26
• Total Runtime 01:05:02

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Alex Vizorek revisits Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals. The French composer never imagined that his bestiary would become one of the most famous works in musical history, a staple repertory piece on a par with Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. The Belgian comedian and actor has rewritten the text of this ‘grand zoological fantasy’, which he narrates here alongside Duo Jatekok and the Orchestre National de Lille under the direction of Lucie Leguay. The work’s ‘crazy and poetic drollery’ takes in the ‘Royal March of the Lion’, the ‘Hens and Cocks’, the mysterious ‘Hemiones’, the motley procession of ‘Turtles’, ‘Elephant’ and ‘Kangaroos’, the famous ‘Aquarium’ which gave the Cannes Festival its signature tune, and of course the celebrated ‘Swan’. ‘When human beings keep their distance, animals are happy’, concludes Alex Vizorek. To celebrate the centenary of Saint-Saëns’s death in 1921, Duo Jatekok also presents another of his biggest hits, the Danse macabre, in its version for four hands. Naïri Badal and Adélaïde Panaget, the orchestra and Lucie Leguay bring this colourful parade to a close with Poulenc’s flamboyant Concerto for Two Pianos, premiered at the Tenth Venice Biennale in 1932.

Alex Vizorek, voice
Duo Jatekok
Orchestre National de Lille
Lucie Leguay, direction

Lucie Leguay
holds Masters degree in Orchestral Conducting from the Haute Ecole de Musique of Lausanne in Switzerland. She is also a graduate of the École supérieure of the Hauts de France (Lille) and the Regional Conservatory of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (Paris).

Lucie is appointed in 2021 as assistant conductor to Mikko Franck at the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. She won in 2019 the position of assistant conductor for four orchestras : Ensemble Intercontemporain (Paris) with Matthias Pintscher, Orchestre National d’île de France (Paris) with Case Scaglione, Orchestre National de Lille with Alexandre Bloch and Orchestre de Picardie (Amiens) with Arie Van Beek. Laureate of several international competitions, she has been distinguished in November 2018, during the first contest for young female orchestra conductors at the Philharmonie of Paris. She won the Florence Orchestra Camera Award in 2016 at the final of the International Orchestra Conducting Competition in Empoli (Italy).

Selected as assistant conductor at the Verbier Festival from 2019 to 2021, Lucie collaborates with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Lahav Shani, Gabor Takacs-Nagy,Manfred Honeck, Fabio Luisi. Trained as a conductor by Jean-Sébastien Béreau, she also received advice from renowned conductors such as Pekka Jukka Saraste, Mark Shanahan, Clark Rundell and Peter Eötvös. Since 2018 she has been working regularly with him in Budapest to follow the masterclasses in conducting dedicated to the contemporary repertoire.

These teachings have nourished her inspiration and curiosity for a very rich repertoire ranging from opera to contemporary as well as symphonic music. The faithful interpretation of the text is at the heart of her training, her definition of the role of conductor and her musical activities. In particular through the creation and collaboration with contemporary composers. In Switzerland and Hungary she worked with Peter Eötvös, Heinz Holliger, Kaija Saariaho, Olga Neuwirth, Philippe Schoeller or Camille Pépin.

Lucie regularly performs in France and abroad with various orchestras such as the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, the Brussel Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Les Siècles, Orchestre National d’Île de France in Paris, Opéra de Lille, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre National des Pays de La Loire, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre National de Metz, Orchestre National de Bretagne, Opéra de Toulon, Orchestre Symphonique de la Garde Républicaine, Ensemble Aedes, Orchestre de Picardie, Ensemble Sillages, Ensemble 2e2m, Ensemble Contrechamps in Geneva, Orchestre Démos with the Orchestre National de Lille, the National Orchestra of Bogota with the artist Wax Tailor. During a tour in Korea, she conducted the show “Les Misérables en Concert” in Seoul and Pusan.

In 2014, Lucie founded the Orchestre de Chambre de Lille (OCL) with one ambition: to spread music for all, in places where people do not expect it. The OCL performs in the Lille area with concerts in different formats and with different aesthetics ranging from “instrument discovery” to the great symphony. Transmission and collective practices are at the heart of the orchestra’s educational projects, which, alongside the concerts, offers awareness-raising workshops. The orchestra and its conductor perform in unusual places with the desire to meet new audiences.

Orchestre National de Lille
Since its foundation by Jean-Claude Casadesus in 1976 and thanks to an ambitious programme, the Orchestre National de Lille (ONL) has established itself as a leading French orchestra open to all audiences. Each year the orchestra performs in its concert hall, Le Nouveau Siècle in Lille, in its own region, across France and abroad. True to its mission, the orchestra plays major symphonic repertoire, with an annual opera production, as well as the music of our own time, particularly by appointing composers-in-residence. In parallel, it presents innovative programmes dedicated to new audiences.

The orchestra invites experienced international conductors and soloists as well as the younger generation, and puts its young audiences at the heart of its projects by developing a wide range of participatory events. Thanks to its fully digital studio, the orchestra has developed an ambitious audio-visual policy. Over the years critics and public have hailed more than 30 recordings with numerous awards. Alexandre Bloch has been the orchestra’s music director since September 2016. The ONL is subsidised by Région Hauts-de-France, the Ministère de la Culture, the Métropole Européenne de Lille and the Ville de Lille.

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