Neeme Jarvi conducts Chabrier | Chandos CHSA5122

Neeme Jarvi conducts Chabrier

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Label: Chandos

Cat No: CHSA5122

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 29th April 2013

Contents

Works

Chabrier, Alexis Emmanuel

Bourree fantasque (orch. Felix Mottl)
Espana
Gwendoline: Overture
Habanera
Joyeuse Marche
L'Etoile
» Entr'acte before Act 2
» Entr'acte before Act 3
» Overture
Lamento
Le Roi malgre lui
» Danse slave
» Fete polonaise
Suite pastorale

Artists

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Conductor

Neeme Jarvi

Works

Chabrier, Alexis Emmanuel

Bourree fantasque (orch. Felix Mottl)
Espana
Gwendoline: Overture
Habanera
Joyeuse Marche
L'Etoile
» Entr'acte before Act 2
» Entr'acte before Act 3
» Overture
Lamento
Le Roi malgre lui
» Danse slave
» Fete polonaise
Suite pastorale

Artists

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Conductor

Neeme Jarvi

About

This disc of popular works by Emmanuel Chabrier marks the beginning of a new series of French repertoire, performed by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under its newly appointed Artistic Director, Neeme Järvi.

After three attempts at comic opera, Chabrier finally achieved success in 1877 with L’Étoile, the plotline of which is set in the court of the somewhat emotionally unstable King Ouf. A couple of years previously, Chabrier had written a short Lamento for orchestra, a work which would not perhaps be considered revolutionary by today’s audiences, but which caused the committee of the Société nationale de musique to hum and haw over it for eighteen long months before finally letting it loose on the Parisian public in 1878.

From July to December 1882, Chabrier took his family on an extended holiday to Spain, during which he kept himself busy by noting down the Spanish folk tunes and dance rhythms he encountered on his way. He put many of them into his orchestral masterpiece España, a work overwhelming in its orchestral colour, which is such a characteristic feature of this composer. The impressions of his Spanish holiday can also be heard in the Habanera.

For six years Chabrier worked on Gwendoline, a two-act dramatic opera on a libretto by Catulle Mendès, set in Britain in what he called ‘barbarous times’. Inspired by Wagner and Berlioz, the Overture sets the scene perfectly for a drama of violence, treachery, and passion.

A month after Gwendoline was premiered in Brussels in April 1886 the Opéra-Comique in Paris agreed to put on Chabrier’s next opera, Le Roi malgré lui, a melting pot of complex political intrigue, cheerful arias and vivacious dances.

In 1880 Chabrier had written his Dix Pièces pittoresques for piano, and over the next few years he orchestrated four of them to form the Suite pastorale, with its gently pulsing ‘Idylle’ movement (which inspired Poulenc to become a composer), the raucous ‘Danse villageoise’, the sultry ‘Sous-bois’, and last but not least the sunny, high-spirited ‘Scherzo-valse’.

Also on this disc is the Joyeuse marche, one of Chabrier’s most popular works, and the Bourrée fantasque, based on a dance from the Auvergne region in France where the composer had spent his childhood.

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