les percussions de strasbourg

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

September 21, 2018, l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, The Headshakers, Les Percussions de Strasbourg and Les Métaboles performed Frank Zappa's "200 Motels, The Suites".

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