Title: Faure: Masques et bergamasques; Theme et variations; Caligula; Les Djinns
Artist: Ruth Rosique
Label: Naxos
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 747313464777
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-07-11
Number of Discs: 1
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 fête 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.
Tracks:
1.1 Djinns, Op. 12 (version for choir and orchestra)
1.2 Caligula, Op. 52 (concert version)~No. 1. Prologue: Fanfare, March and Chorus - Nous sommes les Heures guerrières
1.3 Caligula, Op. 52 (concert version)~No. 2. Act V: Chorus - L'hiver s'enfuit
1.4 Caligula, Op. 52 (concert version)~No. 3. Air de danse
1.5 Caligula, Op. 52 (concert version)~No. 4. [Melodrama and] Chorus: De roses vermeilles
1.6 Caligula, Op. 52 (concert version)~No. 5. [Melodrama and] Chorus: César a fermé la paupière
1.7 Thème et variations, Op. 73
1.8 Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112 (stage version)~I. Ouverture (from Intermède symphonique in F major)
1.9 Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112 (stage version)~II. Pastorale
1.10 Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112 (stage version)~III. Madrigal (from Op. 35)
1.11 Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112 (stage version)~IV. Le plus doux chemin (from Op. 87, No. 1)
1.12 Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112 (stage version)~V. Menuet
1.13 Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112 (stage version)~VI. Clair de lune (from Op. 46, No. 2)
1.14 Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112 (stage version)~VII. Gavotte (from Suite (Symphony) in F major, Op. 20 - third movement)
1.15 Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112 (stage version)~VIII. Pavane (from Op. 50)