r e l e a s e f e b r u a r y 2015 – ES1018 – portraits
Théodore Dubois
Musique sacrée et symphonique Musique de chambre Chantal Santon, soprano – Jennifer Borghi, mezzo-soprano – Marie Kalinine, mezzosoprano – Mathias Vidal, tenor – Alain Buet, baryton – Romain Descharmes, piano – François Saint-Yves, organ Quatuor Giardini Flemish Radio Choir / Hervé Niquet, cond. Brussels Philharmonic / Hervé Niquet, cond. Les Siècles / François-Xavier Roth, cond. Each volume in the ‘Portraits’ series is devoted to a composer who has now largely been forgotten; it presents a varied selection of his works.
1 book + 3 CDs – total time: 58:53 + 62:42 + 71:53 Book: hard cover, 108 pages, size 13,5 cm x 21,00 cm, languages French and English Limited and numbered edition of 2500 ISBN/EAN: 978-84-617-2365-2
Recorded between 2012 an 2014 in La Monnaie (Brussels), Palazzetto Bru Zane (Venice), Église des Jésuites (Heverlee), Auditorium Parco della Musica (Rome), Scuola Grande di San Rocco (Venice)
Théodore Dubois is the perfect example of the ‘official’ composer during the time of French Romanticism: he successively was a Prix de Rome recipient (1861), organist at the Madeleine (1877), an academician (1894), and director of the Conservatoire (1896) where he had been teaching since 1871. However, so much injustice as well as honour was heaped upon his music – accused of academic rigidity – that it is important to rehear it to be in a better position to judge its real interest value. A representative selection of works, typically previously unrecorded, is provided on this multifaceted book-CD: a biography, extracts from Dubois’ recollections, as well as articles discussing the composer’s style and personality.
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