Winner of the 2024 La Maestra competition in Paris and recipient of five additional prizes, conductor Bar Avni was born in Israel and first studied percussion before turning to conducting. She counts Yoav Talmi, Barbara Hannigan, and Ayelet Geva as mentors and has assisted conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel, Klaus Mäkelä and Myung-Whun Chung. Known for her desire to seek out programs that are off the beaten track, Avni’s first recording with the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine combines the music of Charlotte Sohy, Darius Milhaud, C.P.E. Bach, and Igor Stravinsky. The program opens with Sohy’s symphony “Grande Guerre,” which was composed in 1914 but only premiered in 2019. Milhaud composed his first of six Petites Symphonies in 1917 while he was secretary to Paul Claudel, who at the time was acting as French ambassador to Brazil. C.P.E. Bach’s sparkling symphony from 1775 precedes the final work by Stravinsky, his first major work composed after he moved to America around 1940.