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Kristian Alexander

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Daniel Vnukowski

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A Romantic Evening In France

Toronto

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Meridian Arts Centre

George Weston

A Romantic Evening In France: Symphonic Variations (Variations symphoniques), M. 46 Franck (+2 More)

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Symphonic Variations (Variations symphoniques), M. 46

Symphonie sur un Chant Montagnard Français, Op.25

Symphony No. 1 in C Major

Saileshwaran Thirumurthy

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Daniel Wnukowski performs César Franck’s Symphonic Variations, a late-Romantic cyclic work in three parts in which the main theme grows and transforms into the thematic material of subsequent movements. Vincent D’Indy’s Symphonie sur un Chant Montagnard Français (Symphony on a French Mountain Air) begins with a pentatonic folk tune—which d’Indy heard in a French village overlooking the Cévennes—that then becomes the thematic basis for the subsequent movements. Closing the program is Georges Bizet’s Symphony in C: a youthful work composed at the Paris Conservatory when Bizet was only seventeen, Symphony in C shares similarities to the work of Bizet’s teacher, Charles Gounod, but has been hailed as a masterpiece of the Romantic repertoire.

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A Romantic Evening In France by Franck, D'Indy, Vincent, Bizet, From (2024/2024), Conductor Kristian Alexander, Meridian Arts Centre, Toronto, Canada

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