Roger Desormiere: The Decca Recordings

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Release Date: 19th Jun 2020
Catalogue No: ELQ4840416
Label: Eloquence
Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

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Bizet: La Patrie

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National Symphony Orchestra
Roger Desormière
Recorded: 1947-05-15
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Overture

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Bizet: Jeux d'enfants, Op. 22 WD 56 - Petite Suite

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National Symphony Orchestra
Roger Desormière
Recorded: 1947-05-15
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

1. Marche: Trompette et tambour

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2. Berceuse: La Poupée

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3. Impromptu: La toupie

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4. Duo: Petit mari, petite femme

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5. Galop: Le bal

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Chabrier: Habanera

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National Symphony Orchestra
Roger Desormière
Recorded: 1947-05-15
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Debussy: Marche Écossaise

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National Symphony Orchestra
Roger Desormière
Recorded: 1947-05-15
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Scarlatti, D: The Good-humoured Ladies

Work length15:00

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Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Roger Desormière
Recorded: 1951-06-20
Recording Venue: La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

1. Presto (Arr. Tommasini)

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2. Allegro (Arr. Tommasini)

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3. Andante (Arr. Tommasini)

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4. Non presto, in tempo di ballo (Arr. Tommasini)

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5. Presto (Arr. Tommasini)

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Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty, Suite, Op. 66a

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Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Roger Desormière
Recorded: 1951-06-20
Recording Venue: La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

Introduction - The Lilac Fairy

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Pas d'action: Rose Adagio

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Pas de caractère: Puss in Boots

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Panorama. Andantino

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Valse

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Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches Suite No. 1, Op. 10

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Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Roger Desormière
Recorded: 1951-06-20
Recording Venue: La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

1. In a Mountain Pass

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2. In the Village

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3. In the Mosque

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4. Procession of the Sardar

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Ibert: Divertissement

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Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Roger Desormière
Recorded: 1951-06-20
Recording Venue: La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

1. Introduction

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2. Cortège

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3. Nocturne

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4. Valse

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5. Parade

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6. Finale

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Poulenc: Les biches (Suite)

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Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Roger Desormière
Recorded: 1951-06-20
Recording Venue: La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

Rondeau

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Chanson dansée

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Adagietto

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Rag - Mazurka

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Andantino

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Final

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Chopin: Les Sylphides

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Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Roger Desormière
Recorded: 1953

Nocturne in A-Flat Major, Op. 32 No. 2 (Orch. Douglas)

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Waltz in G-Flat Major, Op. 70 No. 1 (Orch. Douglas)

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Mazurka in D Major, Op. 33 No. 2 (Orch. Douglas)

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Mazurka in C Major, Op. 67 No. 3 (Orch. Douglas)

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Prélude in A Major, Op. 28 No. 7 (Orch. Douglas)

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Waltz in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 64 No. 2 (Orch. Douglas)

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Grande valse brillante in E-Flat Major, Op. 18 (Orch. Douglas)

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Delibes: Coppélia (Suite)

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Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Roger Desormière
Recorded: 1953

1. Prélude - Mazurka

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2. Entr'acte - Valse

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3. Czardas

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4. Scène et valse de la poupée

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5. Ballade et thème slave varié

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Delibes: Sylvia: Suite

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Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Roger Desormière
Recorded: 1953

Prélude - Les Chasseresses

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Intermezzo et valse lente

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Violon solo

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Pas des Ethiopiens - Chant bachique

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Pizzicati

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Cortège de Bacchus

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Gounod: Roméo et Juliette / Act 1

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Janine Michaeu (soprano)
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Roger Desormière
Recorded: 1948-05-25
Recording Venue: Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

"Ah, je veux vivre"

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Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann / Act 2

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Janine Michaeu (soprano)
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Roger Desormière
Recorded: 1948-05-25
Recording Venue: Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

"Les oiseaux dans la charmille"

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Gounod: Mireille / Act 1

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Janine Michaeu (soprano)
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Roger Desormière
Recorded: 1948-05-25
Recording Venue: Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

"O légère hirondelle"

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Thomas, Ambroise: Mignon / Act 2

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Janine Michaeu (soprano)
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Roger Desormière
Recorded: 1948-05-25
Recording Venue: Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

"Je suis Titania"

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Proch: "Deh! torna mio bene" (Air and Variations)

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Janine Michaeu (soprano)
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Roger Desormière
Recorded: 1948-05-25
Recording Venue: Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

Charpentier, G: Louise / Act 3

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Janine Michaeu (soprano)
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Roger Desormière
Recorded: 1948-05-25
Recording Venue: Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

"Depuis le jour"

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A landmark tribute to Roger Desormiere, a great French conductor of the mid-twentieth century, including many recordings new to CD. A car crash in March 1953 cruelly cut short the career of Roger Desormiere, who at the age of 53 had already established a reputation as one of the most insightful French conductors of his or any previous era. The resulting stroke left him barely able to communicate, incapable of work. His pupils, including Pierre Boulez, were distraught, but Desormiere clung on for thirteen painful years, eventually dying a broken man. Desormieres legacy on disc is a case of what might have been. Record companies showed little interest in recording the modern repertoire of which he was so stylish and dedicated an interpreter, at least the equal in this regard of Hans Rosbaud and Rene Leibowitz. His one indisputable classic of the gramophone is the 1941 HMV recording of Pelleas et Melisande, but he recorded much else for several different labels. The present set brings together all his Decca recordings for the first time, made in mono between 1947 and 1951, newly remastered and constituting a substantial tribute to a musician of manifold gifts. As a regular conductor of both the Ballets Suedois and the Ballets Russes in Paris, Desormiere gave the premieres of Saties last two ballets; Decca captured his mastery of ballet conducting in suites of Scarlatti, Chopin, Delibes and Tchaikovsky. Of music from his own time there is Poulencs Les Biches, and the Divertissement of Ibert from 1951 (his final Decca recording), both done with the most refined ear for orchestral texture. His disc of lyric and coloratura arias with Janine Micheau unites him with a singer who, like him, brought a light touch to everything she did. On a visit to London in May 1947 Desormiere undertook his only recording assignment for Decca in the UK, recording in a single day Bizets Jeux denfants and Patrie Overture, Debussys Marche ecossaise and Chabriers Habanera, in Kingsway Hall, with Sidney Beers body of freelance players, the National Symphony Orchestra. Every other recording was made with the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, and each one has a character as Parisian as the Tuileries and the Bateaux-mouches. A lovely voice and most accomplished coloratura The orchestral playing and the recording are both good. Gramophone, April 1949 (Proch/Thomas) played and recorded as well as they are ever likely to be High Fidelity, January 1953 (Poulenc, Scarlatti) The whole thing sounds like a sketch from a sophisticated revue. Desormiere points the jokes without overdoing them, and the recording is agreeable. The Record Guide, 1955 (Ibert) The performance captures, with affectionate irony, the atmosphere of the period in which the music was conceived ... and the recording is wonderfully realistic. The Record Guide, 1955 (Poulenc) The orchestration is done with a very nice sense of style and the suite is sprucely played. The Record Guide, 1955 (Scarlatti) Janine Micheau has been much admired she always seems to enjoy exceptionally good recording. The Record Guide, 1955 (Micheau recital) These charming and delicately scored ballets receive from Desormiere and the Paris orchestra a charming and delicate performance. The Record Guide, 1955 (Delibes) The conductor delivers fresh, lively readings that hit precisely the right moods. His Divertissement is wonderfully sarcastic, with more guttersnipe attitude than in any other version I've heard. The Sleeping Beauty suite never loses its transparency, poise, or light-footed fleetness, nor The Good-Humored Ladies its wit and vigour. Fanfare, September 2004 *FIRST INTERNATIONAL CD RELEASE ON DECCA

Roger Desormiere: The Decca Recordings

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