les percussions de strasbourg

Les Percussions de Strasbourg performed Frank Zappa's 'Black Page #1 and #2'  on july 20, 1994.

• Christian Hamouy: percussion
• Keiko Nakamura: percussion
• Claude Ferrier: percussion
• Jean-Paul Bernard: percussion
• Olaf Tzschoppe: percussion
• Bernard Lesage: percussions + keyboards
• René Bosc: director

concerts

• 1994/07/20 concert 'salle berlioz', montpellier, france
  • setlist:
    • 1.The black page 1 & 2 ( Frank Zappa )
      2. Le ballet mécanique ( George Antheil )
      3. Sonate pour deux pianos et percussions ( Bela Bartok )
  • this concert was broadcast on fm radio. a 54-minute recording circulates

here's the complete info of the fm broadcast / recording:

MONTPELLIER, France 
Le Corum, Salle Berlioz

20 July 1994 
Festival de Radio France et Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon

broadcast: France Culture, July 1994

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IGOR STRAVINSKY [1882-1971] : 

1. Intro (3:54)

Les Noces ("Svadyebka" 1914-23), version 1919 :

2. Tableau I. The Bride's Chamber (5:00)

3. Tableau II. At the Bridgegroom's (5:23)

4. Outro (1:00)

FRANK ZAPPA [1940-1993] :

5. Intro (1:33)

6. Drum Solo (3:05) >

7. The Black Page #1 (1976) (3:55)

8. The Black Page #2 (1976) (3:52)

9. Outro (1:24)

GEORGE ANTHEIL [1900-1959] :

10. Intro (4:17)

11. Ballet Mécanique (1924, rev. 1952-53), version 1926 (16:39)

12. Outro (0:49)

BELA BARTOK [1881-1945] :

13. Intro (0:44)

Sonate pour deux pianos et percussions (1937) :

14. I. Assai lento - Allegro molto) (12:56)

15. II. Lento ma non troppo (6:35)

16. III. Allegro non troppo (6:15)

17. Outro (1:01)

Total : 1h 18'

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remarks:  

02 : World Premiere 
(1919 version for soloists, choir, percussion, cymbalum, pianola)

• Galina Bojko : soprano

• Margarita Marouna : mezzo

• Ludovic Louda : tenor

• Egli Selin : basse

• Norbert Jansen : cymbalum

• Karine Nonenmacher : cymbalum

• Jay Gottlieb : piano

• Roland Konil : piano

• Jacques Arnaud : piano

• Magdalena Sovral : piano

• Michael Brown : harmonium

• Choeur Contemporain d'Aix-en-Provence

• Les Percussions de Strasbourg

• Ensemble Tetra 
  

• dir. René Bosc

The 1923 version was also performed but not broadcasted.

05-08 : French Premiere 
(arranged by René Bosc for solo drumset, 5 percussions, prerecorded synthetizers & bass)

• Les Percussions de Strasbourg (Christian Amouy, Jean-Paul Bernard, Keiko Nakamura, Claude Ferrier, Bernard Lesage, Olaf Tzschoppe) 
   

• dir. René Bosc

10 : French Premiere (1926 version)

• Les Percussions de Strasbourg

• + synthetizer (sirens, propellers, electric bells)

• Roland Konil : piano

• Jacques Arnaud : piano

• Jay Gottlieb : piano

• Dominique Taous : piano 
  

• dir. René Bosc

13-15 :

• Magdalena Sovral : piano

• Jean-Louis Haguenauer : piano

• Les Percussions de Strasbourg

-- additional info: Bruno Le Tohic / Central S. from Les Fils De l'Invention