Faure / Rosique / Chamber Choir Ireland – Masques Et Bergamasques Theme Et Variations [CD]

Description

French music specialist, Jean-Luc Tingaud, conducts a selection of Faure’s secular choral and theatrical music – works that remain relatively little known. Setting a text by Victor Hugo, Les Djinns is heard in Faure’s version for choir and orchestra, while his first venture into incidental music, Caligula, focuses largely on the lives of the women in the Roman court rather than the Emperor. Featuring both instrumental and vocal movements, Masques et bergamasques evokes the Arcadian allure of the French fte galante style – antique, luminous and nostalgic. Also included is the premiere recording of Desire-emile Inghelbrecht’s inventive and sympathetic arrangement of Faure’s largest piano work, the Theme et variations.

Tracklist:

1. Djinns, Op. 12 (version for choir and orchestra)
2. Caligula, Op. 52 (concert version)~No.
3. Prologue: Fanfare, March and Chorus – Nous sommes les Heures guerrires
4. Caligula, Op. 52 (concert version)~No.
5. Act V: Chorus – L’hiver s’enfuit
6. Caligula, Op. 52 (concert version)~No.
7. Air de danse
8. Caligula, Op. 52 (concert version)~No.
9. [Melodrama and] Chorus: De roses vermeilles
10. Caligula, Op. 52 (concert version)~No.
11. [Melodrama and] Chorus: Csar a ferm la paupire
12. Thme et variations, Op. 73
13. Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112 (stage version)~I. Ouverture (from Intermde symphonique in F major)
14. Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112 (stage version)~II. Pastorale
15. Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112 (stage version)~III. Madrigal (from Op. 35)
16. Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112 (stage version)~IV. Le plus doux chemin (from Op. 87, No. 1)
17. Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112 (stage version)~V. Menuet
18. Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112 (stage version)~VI. Clair de lune (from Op. 46, No. 2)
19. Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112 (stage version)~VII. Gavotte (from Suite (Symphony) in F major, Op. 20 – third movement)
20. Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112 (stage version)~VIII. Pavane (from Op. 50)

UPC: 747313464777
Label: Naxos
Release Date: 7.11.25
Format: CD