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Fiesta! Philippe Jordan’s Spanish postcard from the Festival Ravel

Philippe Jordan
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The Orchestre National de France in the Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste
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Corina Belcea, Bertrand Chamayou and Jean-Guihen Queyras
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Jean-Guihen Queyras and cellists from the Académie Ravel 2025
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Bertrand Chamayou and the Orchestre National de France
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“erupting into a fiesta of colour, strutting trumpet and hip-swinging rhythms”
Reviewed at Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Saint-Jean-de-Luz on 4 September 2025
Ravel, Pavane pour une infante défunte
Ravel, Piano Concerto in G major
Ravel, Trois Chansons: Trois beaux oiseaux du paradis (arr. Chamayou)
Ravel, Rapsodie espagnole
Ravel, Miroirs: Alborada del gracioso
Ravel, Boléro
Bertrand Chamayou, Piano
Orchestre National de France
Philippe Jordan, Conductor
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Reviewed at Couvent des Récollets, Ciboure on 4 September 2025
Ravel, Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré
Ravel, Piano Trio in A minor
Ravel, Sonata for Violin and Cello
Boulez, Messagesquisse, for solo cello & 6 cellos
Corina Belcea, Violin
Jean-Guihen Queyras, Cello
Bertrand Chamayou, Piano
Jeunes solistes de l'Académie Ravel
Johannes Gray, Cello
Jana Bojanowski, Cello
Emilie Richter, Cello
Hugo Domínguez Fernández, Cello
Pierre Fontenelle, Cello
Mathilde Reuzé, Cello
Spectacular Orchestre National de France program at Carnegie Hall
*****
Dances of reinvention: Măcelaru and the ONF at the Enescu Festival
****1
Măcelaru and the Orchestre National de France charm at the Proms
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Saint-Saëns illuminated by the Orchestre National de France in Seoul
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Fabien Gabel brings the maison down in Paris with rare Florent Schmitt
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Kitchen sink Carmen: Măcelaru rounds off the ONF season in style
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