Having been suitably blown away the first time I heard Esperanza Spalding a few years ago, I have been completely thrilled to see her meteoric rise to fame in the Jazz community, and to see her music reaching out to a much wider audience.

I managed to locate this concert, featuring Esperanza Spalding and The Chamber Music Society from the 2010 JazznoJazz Festival in Zurich Switzerland from October 28, 2010 and recorded live by Radio Suisse Romande for their Espace 2 channel. It's a little under 90 minutes and it's a wonderful concert, jammed with reasons why Esperanza Spalding is getting the notoriety and accolades she's been getting the past few years.

And, lucky for us, there looks like no end in sight.

Enjoy.

Over to Switzerland this week for a concert recorded live just yesterday (December 7th) by the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra led by Conductor/Pianist Christian Zacharias. The Piano chores are taken over for this concert by Marc Pantillon who does a nice job with the Poulenc Aubade for 18 instruments and Piano. In addition to the Poulenc the concert starts off with the Prokofiev Symphony number 1 (Classical) and ends with the Bizet L'Arlesienne Suite.

As always, the concert is complete (I did cut out the half hour intermission) with the first half (Prokofiev and Poulenc) on the top player and the Bizet on the bottom player. For you note keepers, here's the rundown from Radio Suisse Romande:

Transmission directe du concert donné à la salle Métropole à Lausanne
dans le cadre des concerts d’abonne-ment de l’Orchestre de Chambre deLausanne
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
Marc Pantillon, piano
Direction: Christian Zacharias

- S. Prokofiev: Symphonie no 1, en ré majeur, dite «Classique», op. 25

- F. Poulenc: Aubade, concerto chorégraphique pour piano et 18 instruments, op. 25
- G. Bizet: L’Arlésienne. Musique de scène pour le drame en trois actes homonyme d’Alphonse Daudet. (extraits)

Announcements are in French. But don't let that stop you. It's anti-Road Rage Wednesday and you need all the help you can get.

(Lilya Zilberstein playing Poulenc)

Todays installment of the Mid-Week concert heads over to the Salle Metropole in Lausanne Switzerland for a concert by the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Christian Zacharias and featuring Lilya Zilberstein and Alexander Gurning, pianos playing the Poulenc Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra. The concert, recorded by Radio Suisse Romande on October 9, 2007 starts off with Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin.

The announcements (all in French) are by Bertrand Decaillet.

This one ought to get you back on track.