The opening concert of the Insula Orchestra under Laurence Equilbey will be at the Seine Musicale in Boulogne-Billancourt (suburb of Paris) on September 29 and 30. It will comprise Louise Farrenc's 2nd symphony as well as her two overtures. The first part of the concert will feature Beethoven's 2nd piano concerto (soloist Lucas Delbargue).
Good concert, but HIP orchestra - and tiny. Not for me!
I have to admit ( to my great surprise since I fully expected the opposite) that I am enjoying greatly the new Erato set.
I see it not as a substitution, but as a perfect complement to the wonderful cpo set.
About the orchestra: on the booklet they list 42 strings for these recordings, so for a HIP-inspired thing (or whatever you want to call it) this is as beefy as it gets.
True, ensemble shifts in size according to the piece, so they don't always play all together, but the proof is in the pudding, and to my very HIP-intolerant ears the noise they make is anything but undernourished or, God forbid, baroque-y.