Neeme Järvi conducts Emmanuel Chabrier

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This will lift the spirits...The brass of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande are full of verve, nicely crisp yet harrumphing when needed, while the woodwind are markedly less acidic than in years... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Apr 2013
Catalogue No: CHSA5122
Label: Chandos
Length: 78 minutes

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Chabrier: Joyeuse Marche

Work length3:45

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Neeme Järvi, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Recorded: 27-29 June 2012
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva, Switzerland

Chabrier: Gwendoline Overture

Work length9:32

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Neeme Järvi, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Recorded: 27-29 June 2012
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva, Switzerland

Chabrier: Habanera

Work length4:17

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Neeme Järvi, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Recorded: 27-29 June 2012
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva, Switzerland

Chabrier: España

Work length6:20

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Neeme Järvi, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Recorded: 27-29 June 2012
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva, Switzerland

Chabrier: Lamento

Work length7:50

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Neeme Järvi, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Alexandre Emard
Recorded: 27-29 June 2012
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva, Switzerland

Chabrier: Bourrée Fantasque

Work length6:51

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Neeme Järvi, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Recorded: 27-29 June 2012
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva, Switzerland

Chabrier: Suite Pastorale

Work length19:13

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Neeme Järvi, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Recorded: 27-29 June 2012
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva, Switzerland

I. Idylle

Track length4:06

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II. Danse Villageoise

Track length4:46

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III. Sous-bois

Track length4:10

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IV. Scherzo-Valse

Track length6:11

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Chabrier: Three movements from "L'Etoile"

Work length8:18

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Neeme Järvi, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Recorded: 27-29 June 2012
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva, Switzerland

Overture. Moderato - Andantino - Allegro - Presto

Track length5:06

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Entr'acte before Act II. Allegro franco

Track length1:20

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Entr'acte before Act III. Mouvement de valse

Track length1:52

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Chabrier: Two movements from "Le Roi malgre lui": Fête polonaise. Allegro molto animato

Work length6:59

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Neeme Järvi, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Recorded: 27-29 June 2012
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva, Switzerland

Chabrier: Two movements from "Le Roi malgre lui": Danse slave. Allegro con brio

Work length5:27

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Neeme Järvi, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Recorded: 27-29 June 2012
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva, Switzerland

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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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September 2013

This will lift the spirits...The brass of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande are full of verve, nicely crisp yet harrumphing when needed, while the woodwind are markedly less acidic than in years gone by. In Jarvi's hands, Espana seemingly dances on air in a whirl of colours.

July 2013

the unifying feeling [is] the sheer joy, craftsmanship and radiance that Chabrier's music possesses and which these performances encapsulate so ear-catchingly.

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