Françaix: Les malheurs de Sophie

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Release Date: 1st Mar 2004
Catalogue No: CDA67384
Label: Hyperion
Length: 57 minutes

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Françaix: Les malheurs de Sophie

Work length33:51

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Ulster Orchestra
Thierry Fischer

Tableau 1 No 1. Allegro vivo

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Tableau 1 No 2. Dotted crotched = 52

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Tableau 1 No 3. Allegro

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Tableau 2 No 1. Andante tranquillo

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Tableau 2 No 2. Vivo assai

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Tableau 3 No 1. Allegretto

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Tableau 3 No 2. Pas de deux, entre Sophie et Paul

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Tableau 3 No 3. Vivo

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Tableau 3 No 4. Istesso tempo

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Tableau 3 No 5. Subito vivo

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Françaix: Concertino for piano and orchestra in G major

Work length8:52

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Philippe Cassard (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Thierry Fischer

I. Presto leggiero

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II. Lent

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III. Allegretto

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IV. Rondeau: Allegretto vivo

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Françaix: Les bosquets de Cythère

Work length14:37

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Ulster Orchestra
Thierry Fischer

I. Introduction à la vie joyeuse

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II. Aminte délaissée

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III. Le consolateur facétieux

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IV. Subtile tendresse

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V. Les larcins galants

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VI. La belle Damnée de Chez Maxim's

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VII. Les amours ont chassé l'amour

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This new recording of orchestral music by Jean Franaix personification of the elegant and witty French salon ambience brings us two ballets scores and the Concertino for piano and orchestra, one of the composers earliest successes, still one of his best-known compositions, and itself a model of the pithy-yet-polished style Franaix has so come to represent. The main work on this disc is the ballet score Les malheurs de Sophie, a setting of the eponymous French childrens tale of a naughty little girl, her escapades and misadventures. In three tableaux, Franaixs score admirably encapsulates the capricious spirit of Sophie as she variously cuts up (and eats) her mothers goldfish, holds a funeral for a favourite doll, shaves off her eyebrows All in all the perfect subject-matter for the composers own brand of genial invention. Although the suite for wind ensemble the composer subsequently prepared has become something of a repertoire piece, the original orchestral score has remained frustratingly obscure until now. Les bosquets de Cythre (The groves of Cythera) is Franaixs development of a tradition which saw composers and poets from Debussy and Poulenc to Watteau and Boucher immortalizing the Bacchanalian, even Priapic, delights of this island of love. In his updated fantasy world abandoned shepherdesses lie quite happily with the minxes from the notorious Parisian restaurant Chez Maxim and all is couched in an ironic style charmingly blending the manners of a Couperin with those of the Roaring Twenties.

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