Release Date: 12 January 1999
Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 636943424827
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: CHABRIER
Description
Emmanuel Chabrier(1841-1894) Orchestral Works'My first concern is to do as I please; seeking above all to give reinto my individuality; my second is not to be a damned bore'Emmanuel Chabrier in a letter to his publisher, Costallat, 'A man of exquisite gentleness and sudden exuberance', 'the soul of asentimental girl in the body of a water carrier', Emmanuel Chabrier is thegreat forgotten man of French music. With a passion for poetry and painting asmuch as for music, among his friends he could count Verlaine, Edmond Rostand,Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Manet (whose canvasses he was one of the first tobuy), Faure, Duparc and Chausson. Beneath the laughing, chubby exterior theredwelt a roguish tenderness, an infinite passion for music: 'No artist will everhave worshipped music, nor striven to honour it more than I, none has sufferedmore for it and I shall suffer for it eternally', he wrote to Charles Lecocq.Emmalluel Chabrier was born at Ambert, in the Auvergne, on 18th January,1841. The only child of Jean Chabrier, a lawyer, and Evelina Durozay, he showedan early aptitude for music and at the age of six was taking piano lessons withthe town's teacher, Manuel Zaporta, a Carlist refugee who perhaps created inhim his taste for Spain. However, Emmanuel had to follow the family way andstudy law, devoting all his free time to his musical education. At the age oftwenty, following his father's wishes, he went into the Ministry of theInterior. Civil servant by day, artist by night, he frequented the clubs andsalons of Paris. From this period came nine unpublished melodies, pieces forpiano, two operettas based on Verlaine's librettos which were never finishedand a plan for the opera Jean Hunyade. 1869 was marked by the death ofboth his parents within a week. He had always been very close to them, but nowonly his former governess, Nanine, was to watch over the destiny of 'Mavel' andhis future family. Following the enforced movements of the Ministry during theFranco-Prussian War, he had little inclination to compose and it was not until1873 that there came an Impromptu for piano dedicated to Manet's wife.In the same year, Chabrier married Alice Dejean. Two sons were born of thishappy union.Alice soon had eye problems, gradually losing her sight. It was at thetime, in 1874, that Chabrier wrote Lamento, a relatively short symphonicpiece which remained an unpublished manuscript until its rediscovery a fewyears ago. Chabrier, who used to revise his work time and time again, seems tohave written it in one go, with no subsequent alterations; according to YvonneTiennot, it was performed at the Societe Nationale that year, then themanuscript seems to have been lost. Herve Niquet describes the extraordinaryeffect of this poignant work as the equivalent in sound of graduallydeteriorating sight, the tones becoming thinner, the mass of sound fading awayby degrees. A year later, Chabrier wrote a Larghetto for horn andorchestra which was performed in 1878 at the 'Societe des c
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
