Word: tombeau
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...Ravel's "Tombeau de Couperin" suite opened the program by exhibiting the best qualities of today's BSO. Under Music Director Seiji Ozawa's baton, the orchestra always excels in the playing of modern French masterworks. Add to that experience the wit and insight of Previn, and the result cannot help but please...
Fisk rounded out the program with another short and mystically impressionistic de Falla transcription ("Homenaje Pour le Tombeau de Debussy"), and a clearly well-rehearsed 24th Caprice of Paginini. Here, transcribed pizzacati, though sometimes lacking in volume, were remarkably distinguishable from regularly bowed notes. As an encore, Fisk offered a similarly effortless and energetic rendition of Julio Segruras' "El Colibri...