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CAL9424/5 Barcode: 794881936724 2 MID PRICE CDS Jean-Philippe RAMEAU Platée Bruce Brewer, Isabelle Poulenard, Gilles Ragon, Nicolas Rivenq, Ens Sagittarius, Ens Vocal du Centre Nayional d’Insertion d’Art Lyrique de Marseille, Grande Ecurie & Chambre du Roy/Jean-Claude Malgoire (conductor) Platée - opera in prologue and three acts by Jean-Philippe Rameau with libretto by Adrien-Joseph Le Valois d'Orville. Rameau bought the rights to the libretto Platée by Jacques Autreau and had d'Orville modify it. The ultimate source of the story is a myth related by the Greek writer Pausanias in his Guide to Greece. Rameau's first attempt at comic opera, the plot concerns an ugly water nymph who believes that Jupiter, the king of the gods, is in love with her. It was written for the celebrations of the wedding of Louis, Dauphin of France, son of King Louis XV of France, to the Infanta Maria Theresa of Spain, who, according to contemporary sources, like the title character, was no beauty. Instead of getting the composer into trouble, the entertainment at Versailles seems to have been well received, and Rameau was appointed a few months later to the position of Composer of the King's Chamber Music with a sizable annual pension. The opera was first performed on 31 March 1745 at the Grande Ecurie, Versailles. UK performances by the Mark Morris Company played to consistently packed houses and rave reviews. harmonia mundi UK- released 11th January 2010
CAL9410 Barcode: 7 94881 89762 9 NORMAL PRICE CD SCHUBERT / BERG SCHUBERT String Quartet No. 13 'Rosamunde' D804, Gretchen am Spinnrade D118, Die Götter Griechenlands D677, BERG Suite Lyrique, Schliesse mir die Augen beide (1900+1925 versions), Quatuor Thymos; Salomé Haller (soprano); Christoph Eschenbach (piano) 'Thymos': a word that was used by the ancient Greek philosophers to refer to feeling and emotion… And it was the spirit of thymos that brought together the musicians of the eponymous quartet, first-prize winners from the Paris and Lyon Conservatoires and members of the Orchestre de Paris. The Thymos Quartet, like Calliope, is keenly interested in music of the Viennese school. This recording presents two masterpieces, representing two different periods in the rich history of Viennese music: Franz Schubert's String Quartet No. 13 'Rosamunde', completed in March 1824, and Alban Berg's Lyric Suite, a “suite for string quartet” (Berg's own words), written between September 1925 and October 1926. The latter is Berg's first extended 12-note composition, using the technique that Schoenberg had developed in 1923. In January 1977 the American musicologist George Perle discovered a copy of the score of the Lyric Suite annotated by Berg, in which the composer revealed its secret programme: without that key to the code, the complexities of this work would be indecipherable. The Lyric Suite is the story of a passion, recounting the episodes in the personal drama of an impossible love: that between Berg and Hanna Fuchs-Robettin. The musicians of the Thymos Quartet feel in tune with the aesthetic of this work, which calls for a very subtle balance between individual performance and harmony between all the players. It is a very difficult work to perform and one that is deeply moving for the performers. Schubert's String Quartet No. 13, also a moving work, refers to the inevitability of death; we discover in this composition an almost symphonic expression of violence, and it is also a tragic yet intimate confession. In this quartet Schubert quotes his lieder Gretchen am Spinnrade D118 (text by Goethe) and Schöne Welt, wo bist du? D677 (text by Schiller); Berg's Schliesse mir die Augen beide, to a poem by Theodor Storm, is connected with his Lyric Suite. These songs are therefore presented on this recording in order to give a fuller picture. These songs, as well as the sixth movement of the Lyric Suite, are performed the young soprano Salomé Haller, who was as enchanted by this programme as the musicians of the Thymos Quartet are. The musicians of the Thymos Quartet have played this programme many times. They came to the notice of the conductor Christoph Eschenbach when they presented it at the Théâtre Mogador in Paris, as a result of which he subsequently invited them to the Ravinia Festival (Chicago, USA) where, in August 2005, they performed Alban Berg's Lyric Suite with the Debussy String Quartet and (with Eschenbach at the piano) Dvorak's Piano Quintet (to be recorded on the Calliope label in November 2010). In 2006 Christoph Eschenbach invited the Thymos Quartet to take part in the Orchestre de Paris's Boulez cycle at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, where they performed Webern's Five Movements, Opus 5, and Berg's Lyric Suite. From that time dates their desire to take their work one step further by recording the latter. harmonia mundi UK- released 11th January 2010
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