Paris est une fête

Alexandra Soumm

Orchestre de Chambre Pelléas, Benjamin Levy

Alexandra Soumm, the Orchestre de chambre Pelléas and Benjamin Levy paint a raw, nostalgic and lively portrait of the City of Light, spanning seventy years of musical history - from the Second Empire to the Roaring Twenties. This recording, a testimony to the musical and human affinity that has developed over many years between these performers, also represents a return to the sources of creative work, as it is the first recording of Tzigane in the new "Ravel Edition" and the first recording of the orchestration of Emmanuel Chabrier's Bourrée fantasque after the sketches left unfinished by the composer. From the crinolines of Georges Bizet's youth to the clouds of cigar smoke in the dreamy Brazil of Le Boeuf sur le toit, we are immersed in an era in which Paris set the pace for cosmopolitan, carefree celebrations.

Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) , Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) , Georges Bizet (1838-1875) , Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)