Ulster Orchestra, Thierry Fischer - Françaix: Ballet Music & Piano Concertino (2004)
BAND/ARTIST: Ulster Orchestra, Thierry Fischer
- Title: Françaix: Ballet Music & Piano Concertino
- Year Of Release: 2004
- Label: Hyperion
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks) +Booklet
- Total Time: 00:57:27
- Total Size: 206 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Les malheurs de Sophie, Tableau 1: No. 1, Allegro vivo
02. Les malheurs de Sophie, Tableau 1: No. 2, Dotted Crotchet = 52
03. Les malheurs de Sophie, Tableau 1: No. 3, Allegro
04. Les malheurs de Sophie, Tableau 2: No. 1, Andante tranquillo
05. Les malheurs de Sophie, Tableau 2: No. 2, Vivo assai
06. Les malheurs de Sophie, Tableau 3: No. 1, Allegretto
07. Les malheurs de Sophie, Tableau 3: No. 2, Pas de deux, entre Sophie et Paul
08. Les malheurs de Sophie, Tableau 3: No. 3, Vivo
09. Les malheurs de Sophie, Tableau 3: No. 4, Istesso tempo
10. Les malheurs de Sophie, Tableau 3: No. 5, Subito vivo
11. Concertino for Piano and Orchestra in G Major: I. Presto leggiero
12. Concertino for Piano and Orchestra in G Major: II. Lent
13. Concertino for Piano and Orchestra in G Major: III. Allegretto
14. Concertino for Piano and Orchestra in G Major: IV. Rondeau. Allegretto vivo
15. Les bosquets de Cythère: I. Introduction à la vie joyeuse
16. Les bosquets de Cythère: II. Aminte délaissée
17. Les bosquets de Cythère: III. Le consolateur facétieux
18. Les bosquets de Cythère: IV. Subtile tendresse
19. Les bosquets de Cythère: V. Les larcins galants
20. Les bosquets de Cythère: VI. La belle damnée de Chez Maxim's
21. Les bosquets de Cythère: VII. Les amours ont chassé l'amour
This new recording of orchestral music by Jean Françaix – personification of the elegant and witty French ‘salon’ ambience – brings us two ballets scores and the Concertino for piano and orchestra, one of the composer’s earliest successes, still one of his best-known compositions, and itself a model of the pithy-yet-polished style Françaix has so come to represent.
The main work on this disc is the ballet score Les malheurs de Sophie, a setting of the eponymous French children’s tale of a naughty little girl, her escapades and misadventures. In three tableaux, Françaix’s score admirably encapsulates the capricious spirit of Sophie as she variously cuts up (and eats) her mother’s goldfish, holds a funeral for a favourite doll, shaves off her eyebrows … All in all the perfect subject-matter for the composer’s own brand of genial invention. Although the suite for wind ensemble the composer subsequently prepared has become something of a repertoire piece, the original orchestral score has remained frustratingly obscure until now.
Les bosquets de Cythère (‘The groves of Cythera’) is Françaix’s development of a tradition which saw composers and poets from Debussy and Poulenc to Watteau and Boucher immortalizing the Bacchanalian, even Priapic, delights of this ‘island of love’. In his updated fantasy world abandoned shepherdesses lie quite happily with the minxes from the notorious Parisian restaurant Chez Maxim and all is couched in an ironic style charmingly blending the manners of a Couperin with those of the Roaring Twenties.
01. Les malheurs de Sophie, Tableau 1: No. 1, Allegro vivo
02. Les malheurs de Sophie, Tableau 1: No. 2, Dotted Crotchet = 52
03. Les malheurs de Sophie, Tableau 1: No. 3, Allegro
04. Les malheurs de Sophie, Tableau 2: No. 1, Andante tranquillo
05. Les malheurs de Sophie, Tableau 2: No. 2, Vivo assai
06. Les malheurs de Sophie, Tableau 3: No. 1, Allegretto
07. Les malheurs de Sophie, Tableau 3: No. 2, Pas de deux, entre Sophie et Paul
08. Les malheurs de Sophie, Tableau 3: No. 3, Vivo
09. Les malheurs de Sophie, Tableau 3: No. 4, Istesso tempo
10. Les malheurs de Sophie, Tableau 3: No. 5, Subito vivo
11. Concertino for Piano and Orchestra in G Major: I. Presto leggiero
12. Concertino for Piano and Orchestra in G Major: II. Lent
13. Concertino for Piano and Orchestra in G Major: III. Allegretto
14. Concertino for Piano and Orchestra in G Major: IV. Rondeau. Allegretto vivo
15. Les bosquets de Cythère: I. Introduction à la vie joyeuse
16. Les bosquets de Cythère: II. Aminte délaissée
17. Les bosquets de Cythère: III. Le consolateur facétieux
18. Les bosquets de Cythère: IV. Subtile tendresse
19. Les bosquets de Cythère: V. Les larcins galants
20. Les bosquets de Cythère: VI. La belle damnée de Chez Maxim's
21. Les bosquets de Cythère: VII. Les amours ont chassé l'amour
This new recording of orchestral music by Jean Françaix – personification of the elegant and witty French ‘salon’ ambience – brings us two ballets scores and the Concertino for piano and orchestra, one of the composer’s earliest successes, still one of his best-known compositions, and itself a model of the pithy-yet-polished style Françaix has so come to represent.
The main work on this disc is the ballet score Les malheurs de Sophie, a setting of the eponymous French children’s tale of a naughty little girl, her escapades and misadventures. In three tableaux, Françaix’s score admirably encapsulates the capricious spirit of Sophie as she variously cuts up (and eats) her mother’s goldfish, holds a funeral for a favourite doll, shaves off her eyebrows … All in all the perfect subject-matter for the composer’s own brand of genial invention. Although the suite for wind ensemble the composer subsequently prepared has become something of a repertoire piece, the original orchestral score has remained frustratingly obscure until now.
Les bosquets de Cythère (‘The groves of Cythera’) is Françaix’s development of a tradition which saw composers and poets from Debussy and Poulenc to Watteau and Boucher immortalizing the Bacchanalian, even Priapic, delights of this ‘island of love’. In his updated fantasy world abandoned shepherdesses lie quite happily with the minxes from the notorious Parisian restaurant Chez Maxim and all is couched in an ironic style charmingly blending the manners of a Couperin with those of the Roaring Twenties.
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