Debussy: Music for the Prix de Rome

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Tracing Debussy's progress from the derivative chorus Salut Printemps of 1882 to the masterly and utterly individual cantata La Damoiselle élue of 1888 is a fascinating journey... Bernard Richter... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Feb 2010
Catalogue No: GCD922206
Label: Glossa
Series: Prix de Rome
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

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8th February 2010

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Debussy: Le Gladiateur

Work length24:32

$7.00

$9.10

Alain Buet (bass), Guylaine Girard (soprano), Bernard Richter (tenor)
Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
Hervé Niquet

Prelude et recit: Mort aux Romains… (Narbal)

Track length3:22

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$1.30

Air: O peuple habile… (Narbal)

Track length2:58

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Invocation: Baal, source de feu… et scene (Narbal, Fulvie)

Track length4:06

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Duo: Trop tard, j'ai compris ton emoi… (Fulvie, Narbal)

Track length1:50

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Duo: L'impatience populaire… (Fulvie, Narbal)

Track length5:13

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Scene et trio: Ma fille ! Dans les bras de cet homme !… (Fulvie, Narbal, Metellus)

Track length5:02

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Scene: O Fulvie !… Adieu… (Fulvie, Narbal, Metellus)

Track length2:01

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Debussy: Invocation

Work length4:54

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Bernard Richter (tenor), Marie-Josephe Jude (piano), Jean-Francois Heisser (piano)
Flemish Radio Choir

Debussy: La Damoiselle élue

Work length18:45

$4.00

$5.15

Guylaine Girard (soprano), Jean-Francois Heisser (piano), Sophie Marilley (mezzo-soprano)
Flemish Radio Choir

Debussy: Printemps (reconstructed by C. Bongers)

Work length16:11

$4.00

$5.20

Marie-Josephe Jude (piano), Jean-Francois Heisser (piano)
Flemish Radio Choir

I. Tres modere

Track length9:05

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II. Moderato

Track length7:06

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Debussy: Le printemps (arr. C. Lehn)

Work length4:58

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Marie-Josephe Jude (piano), Jean-Francois Heisser (piano), Guylaine Girard (soprano)
Flemish Radio Choir

Debussy: Salut Printemps

Work length4:18

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Jean-Francois Heisser (piano), Guylaine Girard (soprano), Marie-Josephe Jude (piano)
Flemish Radio Choir

Debussy: L'Enfant Prodigue

Work length27:58

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$10.40

Alain Buet (bass), Bernard Richter (tenor), Guylaine Girard (soprano)
Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
Hervé Niquet

Prelude

Track length2:05

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Recit et air: L'annee en vain chasse l'annee !… (Lia)

Track length4:42

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Cortege et air de danses

Track length3:13

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Recit et air: Ces airs joyeux, ces chants de fete… (Azael)

Track length4:41

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Scene: Je m'enfuis… (Lia, Azael)

Track length3:06

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Duo: Heures fortunees !…et scene (Lia, Azael)

Track length4:36

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Air: Faites silence !… et scene (Lia, Azael, Simeon)

Track length2:45

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Gloire a toi Seigneur… (Lia, Azael, Simeon)

Track length2:50

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Recording of the Week, Debussy and the Prix de Rome

8th February 2010

Hervé Niquet and the Brussels Philharmonic explore the young Debussy’s numerous attempts to win the prestigious prize, including Le Gladiateur, Le printemps, La Damoiselle élue and L’Enfant prodigue.

Claude Debussy presented himself as a candidate for the Prix de Rome on three separate occasions during the 1880s, the most innovative decade in the history of that competition; a time when success entitled the victors (at the French government’s expense) to spend several years at the Villa Medici in Rome. Names of prize winners from this time include Debussy, Dukas, Leroux and Charpentier. Presented on this 2-CD set is a group of little known compositions by Debussy, dating from between 1882 and 1888: Le Gladiateur and the first versions of L’Enfant prodigue (of which only the 1906 reorchestration is occasionally performed) and Printemps – a highly individual piece (scored for choir and piano, four hands) later turned into a symphonic suite. A version for piano and voice of La Damoiselle élue and the choruses written for the competitions of 1882, 1883 and 1884 complete this survey of hitherto unknown works by Debussy. This release represents the first issue in a new collection from Glossa centred on music associated with the Prix de Rome. This is being prepared in collaboration with Hervé Niquet, who here is conducting two of Europe’s foremost ensembles.

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April 2010

Tracing Debussy's progress from the derivative chorus Salut Printemps of 1882 to the masterly and utterly individual cantata La Damoiselle élue of 1888 is a fascinating journey... Bernard Richter makes a beautiful sound and uses the words with great sensitivity.

July/August 2010

Performances throughout are pristine and pure in exemplary sound.

May 2010

Finest of all in this sumptuously engineered, glowingly played programme is the deeply sensual La demoiselle élue

July/August 2010

[L'Enfant Prodigue] receives a beautiful performance here. Bernard Richter...is a pleasingly lyrical Azael...Hervé Niquet handles the choral and orchestral forces with real sensitivity...Throughout the discs the singing of the Flemish Radio Choir is marvellously expressive and sensitive, with some really beautiful passages in very soft dynamics.

September 2014

The first in a new series from Glossa, this is an intriguing collection of relatively early and little-known works, mostly orchestral, that formed Debussy's submissions for the prestigious Prix de Rome competition in composition. Hervé Niquet conducts the Flemish Radio Choir and Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra in performances that bring these forgotten gems to vivid life.

Debussy: Music for the Prix de Rome

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Recording of the Week, Debussy and the Prix de Rome

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