Release Date: 12 January 2000
Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4891030500884
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: French Festival
Description
French Festival Joyeuse marche - Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894) Pavane pour une infante defunte - Maurice Ravel(1875 -1937)Sicilienne, Opus 78 - Gabriel Faure (1845 -1924) Berceuse - Benjamin Godard (1849- 1895) La terrasse des audiences au clair de lune- Claude Debussy (1862- 1918) Gymnopedies I & II - Erik Satie (1866- 1925) Intermezzo - Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) Clair de lune - Claude Debussy (1862 -1918) Pavane, Opus 50 - Gabriel Faure (1845 -1924) Barcarole - Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880)Berceuse, Opus 16 - Gabriel Faure (1845 -1924) Danse macabre, Opus 40 - CamilleSaint-Sa?½ns (1835 - 1921)French Festival offers a variety of French music, principally from the nineteenth century,ranging from Offenbach, the Johann Strauss of Paris, to Debussy and Ravel. Emmanuel Chabrier, composer of the Joyeusemarche, was born in Ambert, Puy-de-D??me, in 1841, the son of a lawyer,whose profession he was destined to follow. As a child he showed considerablemusical precocity, but followed the wishes of his family in his choice ofcareer, graduating as a lawyer in 1861, when he entered the Ministry of theInterior. He continued a double career as a composer and as a civil servantuntil 1880, when the impression made on him by hearing Wagner's Tristan undIsolde led him to turn solely to music. Chabrier's works include pianopieces and the popular orchestral rhapsody Espana, as well as a numberof dramatic works, by the last of which he set considerable store. The Joyeusemarche was written in 1888 and originally intended for the piano. The finalversion was dedicated to Vincent d'Indy and is scored for a large orchestra,the music aptly expressing the emotion of the title.Maurice Ravel's Pavane pour une Infantedefunte owed its title, if we believe the composer, to euphony rather thanto any particular dead Spanish princess. Composed for the piano in 1899, thepiece was dedicated to Princess Edmond de Polignac and orchestrated in 1910.The Pavane reflects a certain fin de si?¿cle melancholy that Ravel hereshares with his teacher at the conservatoire, Gabriel Faure, and was writtenthe year after he had entered the latter's composition class. In spite of theimmense popularity of the piece and the growing reputation that Ravel enjoyed,he was to lose in five attempts at the prestigious Prix de Rome, failingto impress the academic judges of the musical establishment. He was to live toenjoy an unrivalled reputation.The Sicilienne, in origin a Baroquepastoral dance, was to prove as popular a piece for Faure as his pupil's Pavane.It was written in 1893, scored for cello and piano and dedicated to the Englishcellist W.H. Squire. The piece formed part of the incidental music forperformances of Moli?¿re's Le bourgeois gentilhomme in that year and waslater included, in Charles Koechlin's orchestration, in incidental music forMaeterlinck's evocatively medieval Pelleas et Melisande. Faure's Pavane,a work that deeply impressed Debussy, was written in 1887 and scored for asmall orches
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yaqi Yang; Margarita Parsamyan; Robynne Redmon; Minghao Liu; Frank Ragsdale; Kim Josephson; Kevin S
Vilmos Csikos; Olivier Lechardeur; Manon Lamaison
Tomas Cotik; Martingale Ensemble; Ken Selden
