Le Bestiaire Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble

• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921): Le Carnival des Animaux:
• 1 Le Carnival des Animaux: I. Introduction et Marche Royale du Lion 02:00
• 2 Le Carnival des Animaux: II. Poules et coqs 00:45
• 3 Le Carnival des Animaux: III. Hémiones (Animaux véloces) 00:38
• 4 Le Carnival des Animaux: IV. Tortues 02:06
• 5 Le Carnival des Animaux: V. L'éléphant 01:17
• 6 Le Carnival des Animaux: VI. Kangourous 01:08
• 7 Le Carnival des Animaux: VII. Aquarium 02:24
• 8 Le Carnival des Animaux: VIII. Personnages à longues oreilles 00:32
• 9 Le Carnival des Animaux: IX. Le Coucou au fond des bois 02:46
• 10 Le Carnival des Animaux: X. Volière 01:10
• 11 Le Carnival des Animaux: XI. Pianistes 01:32
• 12 Le Carnival des Animaux: XII. Fossiles 01:16
• 13 Le Carnival des Animaux: XIII. Le cygne 02:58
• 14 Le Carnival des Animaux: XIV. Final 02:08
• Piet Swerts (b. 1960): Le Bestiaire:
• 15 Le Bestiaire: I. Petite ouverture 01:14
• 16 Le Bestiaire: II. Orphée 1 02:02
• 17 Le Bestiaire: III. La tortue 03:14
• 18 Le Bestiaire: IV. Le cheval 02:03
• 19 Le Bestiaire: VI. La chèvre de Tibet 02:32
• 20 Le Bestiaire: VII. Le serpent 02:19
• Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953):
• 21 Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67: The Cat (Arr. By Piet Swerts) 00:59
• Piet Swerts: Le Bestiaire:
• 22 Le Bestiaire: IX. Le lapin 02:28
• 23 Le Bestiaire: X. La souris 02:04
• 24 Le Bestiaire: XI. L'éléphant 03:07
• 25 Le Bestiaire: XII. La mouche 02:21
• 26 Le Bestiaire: XIII. La sauterelle 01:28
• 27 Le Bestiaire: XIV. Orphée 2 03:53
• 28 Le Bestiaire: XV. Le dauphin 02:51
• 29 Le Bestiaire: XVI. La carpe 03:15
• 30 Le Bestiaire: XVII. Grand final 02:19
• Total Runtime 01:00:49

Info for Le Bestiaire

Sweet Saint-Saëns and wicked Apollinaire may be empires apart, but their hilarious animal portraits in Le Carnaval des Animaux and Le Bestaire ooze the same satirical genius. Belgian composer Piet Swerts translated the evident musicality in the Bestiaire poems into real melodies, and he rearranged Le Carnaval for clarinet, strings and piano. The acclaimed Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble fuses both zoos in an unparalleled chamber-musical Animal Farm which showcases the grand façades but also the foibles of the normal, and not so normal creatures that populate it.

Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble
Roeland Hendrikx, clarinet
Nicolas Dupont, violin
Camille Joubert, violin
Sander Geerts, viola
Sevak Avanesyan, cello
Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort, piano

Roeland Hendrikx
is one of the leading Belgian clarinet players of the present day. Hendrikx was principal clarinet with the National Orchestra of Belgium for many years, but in 2017, he embarked on a solo career. He nevertheless remains a zealous advocate of chamber music, which he plays with his own Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble. ​

Soloist: Roeland Hendrikx apperead as a soloist with, amongst others, the Belgium National Orchestra, The Flemish Symphony Orchestra, I Fiamminghi, the Beethoven Academy, the Flemish Radio Orchestra, the Limberg Symphonic Orchestra, the Georgia Philharmonic, the Symphonic Orchestra of Lithuania and the Philharmonia Orchestra of Hagen. ​

In October 2018, EPR Classic released his registration of Mozart and Finzi's clarinet concertos and Bruch's double concerto, which he recorded with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (conducted by Martyn Brabbins). The Belgian Newspaper De Standaard praised this recording as "outstanding" and "a barrel full of listening pleasure" (October 2018). According to the authoritative French magazine Diapason (5 pitchforks), it “has it all: accuracy, lyricism, elegance”. And the BBC Music Magazine (****) praised the “restrained approach to Mozart’s concerto (…) which works surprisingly well”, and the fact that Roeland “captures the contrastive moods [of the Finzi concerto] with clarity, and particularly in the Adagio, beauty”. ​

Chamber Music: Renowned artists and string quartets with whom Roeland Hendrikx has collaborated include Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort, Severin Von Eckardstein, France Springuel, Panocha Quartet, Tempera Quartet (Finland), Vega String Quartet (USA) and Danel Quartet. In 2015 he founded the Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble, which focuses on the smallscale repertoire for clarinet, piano and strings. ​

Among his many chamber music recordings are the Mozart and Brahms Clarinet Quintets with the Panocha String Quartet (Phaedra), the quintets of Weber and Bārmann, Mozart chamber music with the Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble, and sonatas Debussy and Poulenc with duos by other French composers (all Etcetera), quintets by Reicha and Romberg with the Arriaga String Quartet, and the Clarinet Quintets of the Belgian composers Piet Swerts and Peter Cabus. ​

Teaching: Roeland is teaching clarinet at the Maastricht Conservatory (The Netherlands) and the LUCA School of Arts in Leuven (Belgium). He has given masterclasses in Europe, China, Japan, Thailand, Singapore and the US (Juilliard School of Music NY, Manhattan School of Music NY, Long Beach University LA, De Paul Univ. Chicago, Yale University, Emory University Atlanta, Oklahoma University, Yale University, Miami University).

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