Paris est une fête

Description

From the Second Empire to the Roaring Twenties, Alexandra Soumm, the Pelléas Chamber Orchestra, and Benjamin Levy paint, in seventy years of music, a disheveled, nostalgic, and swaying portrait of the City of Light.
This recording, a testament to the long-standing musical and human affinities woven between these performers, is also a return to the sources of creative outpouring with, for the first time on record, the Tzigane in the new "Ravel Edition" and the first recording of the orchestration of the Bourrée Fantasque by Emmanuel Chabrier according to the sketches left unfinished by the composer.
From the crinolines of Georges Bizet's adolescence to the cigar smoke swirling in the dreamt Brazil of Le Boeuf sur le toit, let us dive back, with delight, into an era when Paris dictated to the world the tempo of carefree cosmopolitan festivities.