J-E Bonnal

[mikehopf]

Just got a couple of CDs of chamber music by J-E Bonnal and am eager to hear :

"POEMES FRANCISCAINS"
pour soli, choeur et orchestre,
sur des poèmes de Francis Jammes,
a été enregistré (non commercialisé) par
l'Orchestre et les choeurs de la BBC
sous la direction de John Poole
et diffusé 2 fois sur BBC3 en mars 1999.

Has anyone a copy of this broadcast?

[Ebubu]

I'm very interested too, so I'm putting this back up...

[Alan Howe]

When was this written? We'd have to be convinced that the music fits here as this thread dates from around our change of remit.

[Gareth Vaughan]

A quick trawl around the few extracts of his music on YouTube, which include a brief extract from the "Poemes Franciscains", convince me that he does fall within our remit - just.

[Alan Howe]

Thanks for that, Gareth. Very helpful.

[sdtom]

1880-1944 an organist/composer

[Alan Howe]

Can't tell much from dates, though, Tom...

[Gareth Vaughan]

And I didn't find his organ music all that attractive. Might have been the recordings though (or performances!).

[eschiss1]

There is one CD of music by Bonnal (string trio, 1934; legend for violin and piano, 1910; Sur le lac triste (1916) : berceuse pour violon et piano; Improvisation, Op.23 (1907) pour violon et piano; Petit poême, Op.20 (1909) pour violon, alto et piano; and Bosphore (1937) : pièce pour violoncelle et piano) available over NML as of this time (NML's available labels and contents-within-labels are dynamic ), will hear about having a listen to it and seeing what I think too, thanks what for the reminder. I thought I'd heard some of his music (I'd seen his name in reviews...) but what I'd actually -heard- was a work by Bonnet, different fellow of course, on a disc on Delos.