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Sir Colin Davis - Berlioz: Sacred Music, Symphonic Dramas & Orchestral Songs (1998)

Sir Colin Davis - Berlioz: Sacred Music, Symphonic Dramas & Orchestral Songs (1998)
  • Title: Berlioz: Sacred Music, Symphonic Dramas & Orchestral Songs
  • Year Of Release: 1998
  • Label: Philips
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 10:03:53
  • Total Size: 2.44 GB
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Tracklist:

01. Introduction
02. Prologue: "D'anciennes haines endormies"
03. Strophe 1: "Premiers transports que nul n'oublie"
04. Strophe 2: "Heureux enfants aux coeurs de flamme"
05. Récitatif et Scherzetto: "Bientôt de Roméo" - "Mab! la messagère" - "Bientôt la mort est souveraine"
06. Roméo seul - Tristesse - Concert et bal.
07. Grande fête chez les Capulets
08. "Ohé! Capulets! bonsoir, bonsoir!"
09. Scène d'amour
10. Scherzo: La reine Mab, où la fée des songes
11. Convoi funèbre de Juliette: "Jetez des fleurs pour la vierge expirée!"
12. Roméo au tombeau des Capulets
13. "Quoi! Roméo de retour!"
14. "Pauvres enfants que je pleure - Mais notre sang rougit leur glaive"
15. "Jurez donc par l'auguste symbole"
16. Dans la crèche, en ce temps, Jésus venait de naître
17. Scène 1: Marche nocturne
18. Qui vient? - Reprise de la marche nocturne
19. Scène 2: Air d'Herode: Toujours ce rêve - O misère des rois!
20. Scène 3: Seigneur!
21. Scène 4: Les sages de Judée
22. (Evolutions cabalistiques)
23. La voix dit vrai, Seigneur
24. Eh bien, par le fer qu'ils périssent!
25. Scène 5: Duo: O mon cher fils, donne cette herbre tendre
26. Scène 6: Joseph! Marie! Ecoutez-nous
27. Ouverture
28. Il s'en va loin de la terre
29. Le repos de la Sainte Famille - Les pèlerins étant venus
30. Depuis trois jours, malgré l'ardeur du vent
31. Scène 1: Dans cette ville immense
32. Scène 2: Entrez, entrez, pauvres Hébreux - Grand dieux! Quelle détresse!
33. (Les Ismaélites se dispersent)
34. Sur vos traits fatigués
35. Allegro moderato - Andante espressivo
36. Allegro vivo
37. Andante
38. Vous pleurez, jeune mère
39. Epilogue: Lento (orchestral) - Ce fut ainsi que par un infidèle
40. O mon âme, pour toi que reste-t-il à faire
41. Scène 1. "Le vieil hiver a fait place au printemps"
42. Ronde des Paysans. "Les bergers quittent" - Scène 2. "Mais d'un éclat guerrier"
43. Marche hongroise
44. Scène 3. "Sans regrets j'ai quitté les riantes campagnes"
45. Chant de la fête de Pâques. "Christ vient de ressusciter!"
46. "Hélas! doux chant du ciel"
47. Scène 4. "O pure émotion!"
48. Scène 5. Choeur de buveurs. "A boire encor!"
49. Chanson de Brander. "Certain rat, dans une cuisine"
50. Fugue sur le thème de la chanson. "Amen"
51. "Vrai Dieu, messieurs"
52. Chanson de Méphistophélès. "Une puce gentille"
53. "Assez! fuyons ces lieux"
54. Scène 6. Air de Méphistophélès. "Voici des roses"
55. Songe de Faust. "Dors! heureux Faust"
56. Ballet des Sylphes
57. Scène 7. "Margarita!"
58. Choeurs de Soldats et Chanson d'Etudiants. "Villes entourées" - "Jam nox stellata velamina pandit"
59. (Prélude: La retraite)
60. Scène 8. Air de Faust. "Merci, doux crépuscule!"
61. Scène 9. "Je l'entends"
62. Scène 10. "Que l'air est étouffant"
63. Le roi de Thulé (Chanson gothique). "Autrefois un roi de Thulé"
64. Scène 11. Evocation. "Esprits des flammes inconstantes"
65. Menuet des Follets
66. Scène 12. "Maintenant chantons à cette belle" - Sérénade de Méphistophélès. "Devant la maison"
67. Scène 13. "Grands dieux!" - Trio et choeur. (Duo:) "Ange adoré"
68. Scène 14. "Allons, il est trop tard!" - "Je connais donc enfin"
69. Scène 15. Romance. "D'amour l'ardente flamme"
70. "Au son des trompettes"
71. Scène 16. Invocation à la Nature. "Nature immense"
72. Scène 17. Récitatif et Chasse. "A la voûte azurée"
73. Scène 18. La course à l'abîme. "Dans mon choeur retentit sa voix"
74. Scène 19. Pandaemonium. "Has! Irimiru Karabrao!" - "Tradioun marexil"
75. Scène 20. Epilogue sur la terre. "Alors, l'enfer se tut"
76. Scène 21. Le Ciel. "Laus! Laus!" - Apothéose de Marguerite. "Remonte au ciel, âme naïve"
77. 1. Requiem - Kyrie
78. 2. Dies irae - Tuba mirum
79. 3. Quid sum miser
80. 4. Rex tremendae
81. 5. Quaerens me
82. 6. Lacrymosa
83. 7. Domine Jesu Christe
84. 8. Hostias
85. 9. Sanctus
86. 10. Agnus Dei
87. Te Deum
88. Tibi omnes
89. Dignare
90. Christe, rex gloriae
91. Te ergo quaesumus
92. Judex crederis
93. 1. Villanelle
94. 2. Le spectre de la rose
95. 3. Sur les lagunes
96. 4. Absence
97. 5. Au cimetière (Clair de lune)
98. 6. L'île inconnue
99. 1. Le Pêcheur
100. 2. Choeur d'Ombres
101. 3. Chanson de brigands
102. 4. Chant de bonheur
103. 5. La harpe éolienne - Souvenirs
104. 6. Fantaisie sur "La Tempête" de Shakespeare
105. 1. "C'en est donc fait"
106. 2. "Ah! qu'ils sont loin"
107. 3. Méditation: "Grands Pharaons"
108. 4. "Non!...non, de vos demeures funèbres"
109. 5. "Dieux du Nil"
110. 1. Récit: "Quel trouble te poursuit"
111. 2. Air: "Ah! Si de la tendresse"
112. 3. Récit: "Que dis-je?"
113. 4. Air: "Arrête! Arrête! Cher Tancrède
114. "Que Clorinde est heureuse!"
115. 5. Air: "Venez, venez, terribles armes!"
116. 6. Prière: "Dieu des chrétiens!"
117. "Venez, venez, terribles armes!"
118. Berlioz: La belle voyageuse, Op.2, No.4 ("Ballade Irlande", H.42A)
119. Berlioz: Le chasseur danois, Op.19, No.6 (H.104A)
120. Berlioz: La captive, Op.12 (Orientale H.60C)
121. Berlioz: Le jeune pâtre breton, Op.13, No.4 ("Fleurs des landes", H.65C)
122. Berlioz: Zaïde, Op.19, No.1

Colin Davis became one of the world's best-known conductors during the last four decades of the 20th century. He was particularly well known for his recordings of Berlioz and Sibelius. While playing the clarinet as a student at the Royal College of Music in London, he participated in a performance of Berlioz's oratorio L'enfance du Christ. He was deeply affected by the work and decided then to become a conductor. A great obstacle in achieving his goal was his lack of skill at the piano. For that reason, he was barred from conducting classes at the Royal College of Music and had to learn conducting on his own. He admitted that he played piano "very badly, not worth talking about."

He was called to military service and was posted to the Band of the Household Cavalry. At that point he formed, with some fellow Royal College instrumentalists, an ensemble called the Kalmar Orchestra, which he often conducted. It soon evolved into the Chelsea Opera Group, a semi-professional organization. Davis became recognized for his professional and stylish performances of Mozart operas. In 1952 he became head of ballet music at Royal Festival Hall. He was an assistant conductor of the BBC Scottish Orchestra (1957-1959). In 1958 he debuted at Covent Garden in Die Entführung aus dem Serail. In 1959, when Otto Klemperer became ill, he took over a performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Royal Festival Hall, a performance that won him wide acclaim. In 1960 lightning struck twice when Thomas Beecham, scheduled to conduct Mozart's Zauberflöte at Glyndebourne, fell ill and Davis again made a brilliant substitution.

In 1961 he was appointed musical director of the Sadler's Wells Opera. He resigned from Sadler's Wells in 1964 to do more symphonic conducting, especially with the London Symphony Orchestra. In 1965 he was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. During this period he began to record widely, including a classic series of releases of the music of Hector Berlioz, including the first recording of the complete Les Troyens.

From 1967 to 1971 he was principal conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with the autonomy to pursue an adventurous policy of repertory. He conducted the Royal Opera Company on several occasions, again mainly in newer music, and emerged as a principal champion of Michael Tippett's operas.

He was chosen to succeed Georg Solti as musical director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1971. While continuing to be praised for his Mozart and for unusual repertory, he received some criticism for his more standard selections, including a Wagner Ring cycle of 1974-1976. Even so, he was asked to appear at Bayreuth, where his Tannhäuser in 1977 was the first appearance of a British conductor in the Wagnerian shrine. Over the years, he became more at home in the core operatic and orchestral repertory.

In 1980 he received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. In 1984 he accepted a position as chief conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich. He took it on a tour of North America in 1986. In the same year, he resigned his position with the Royal Opera to have more time for guest conducting. He remained with the Munich Orchestra into 1994 and was principal guest conductor with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 1995 he was appointed principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, where he remained to his death in 2013. Davis won a Best Opera Grammy Award in 2006 for his LSO Live disc of Verdi's Falstaff and continued conducting the LSO. ~ Joseph Stevenson


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