Hans Rosbaud conducts French Music

CD 1

CLAUDE DEBUSSY:

Prélude à l’après-4midi d’un faune (1891–94)

Aus | from: Trois Nocturnes (1897–99)

I. Nuages II. Fêtes

Marche écossaise sur un thème populaire pour orchestre (1893/1908)

Berceuse héroïque pour orchestre (1914)

Jeux. Poème dansé pour orchestre (1913)

La Mer – Trois esquisses symphoniques (1903–05)

I. De l’aube à midi sur la mer II. Jeux de vagues III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer

CD 2

MAURICE RAVEL

Alborada del gracioso (1904–05 Bearbeitung für Orchester | orchestra arrangement 1918)

Ma mère l’Oye. Cinq pieces enfantines (1911)

I. Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant II. Petit Poucet III. Laideronnette, Impératrice des Pagodes IV. Les Entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête V. Le Jardin féerique

ALBERT ROUSSEL: Concert pour petit orchestre op. 34 (1926)

I. Allegro II. Andante III. Presto – Meno presto – Tempo primo

Suite en Fa op. 33 (1926)

I. Prélude II. Sarabande III. Gigue

Sinfonie Nr. 3 op. 42 (1929/30)

I. Allegro vivo II. Adagio – Andante – Più mosso – Adagio molto – Adagio – Più mosso – Adagio III. Vivace IV. Allegro con spirito – Andante – Tempo primo – Allegro molto –Tempo primo

CD 3

JACQUES IBERT: Le Chevalier errant – Suite symphonique (1935–36)

I. Les moulins II. Danse des galériens III. L’Age d’or IV. Les Comédiens et Finale

DARIUS MILHAUD: L’Homme et son désir op. 48

(instrumentale Bearbeitung | instrumental arrangement 1918) – Ballett nach | after Paul Claudel

MAURICE JARRE: 6 Concertino pour percussion et cordes (1956)

No. 11 from the collective composition “Divertimento for Mozart”. 12 Aspects of the Aria “Ein Männchen oder Weibchen wünscht Papageno sich”

OLIVIER MESSIAEN: Chronochromie pour grand orchestre (1959–60)

I. Introduction II. Strophe I III. Antistrophe I IV. Strophe II V. Antistrophe II VI. Epôde VII. Coda

CD 4

ARTHUR HONEGGER: Symphonie liturgique (Sinfonie Nr. 3, 1946)

I. Dies irae II. De profundis clamavi III. Dona nobis pacem

MARCEL MIHALOVICI: Sinfonia Partita op. 66 (Sinfonie Nr. 2 | Symphony No. 2, 1952)

I. Intrada e Ricercar II. Invenzione III. Perpetuum mobile IV. Largo – Allegro vivace – Più lento – Allegro molto – Largamente

Toccata für Klavier und Orchester /Toccata for piano and orchestra, Op. 44 * (1938–40)

I. Moderato – Più mosso – Tempo primo – Molto calmo II. Allegro – Coda stringendo al presto

Hans Rosbaud was a passionate musician, whose conscientiousness, intuition and experience were extended to even the most complex and contemporary musical forms. The diversity of the works presented here demonstrate his musical universality, and serve to further contradict the reputation he garnered during his lifetime as being only a technically superior champion of the avant-garde.

With the exception of two pieces by Debussy composed in the 1890s, this present anthology of French orchestral repertoire comprises compositions from the 20th century, featuring Ravel’s Ma mère l’Oye, Ibert’s Le Chevalier errant and Messiaen’s Chronochromie alongside works by French-Swiss composer Honegger, member of the legendary Groupe des Six, and Bucharest-born Mihalovici, who, like Honegger, studied composition under the traditionalist Vincent d’Indy.