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Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite Nos. 1 & 2 - Fauré: Masques et bergamasques Suite - Gounod: Faust

11/19/2013, 19 Tracks, 1:09:56

Featuring

  • Kazuki Yamada
  • Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
  • Georges Bizet
  • Gabriel Fauré
  • Charles Gounod

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Composition History

Charles Gounod's opera Faust was initially rejected by the Opéra de Paris and only premiered in 1859 after the manager, Léon Carvalho, insisted on cuts and his wife, Marie Miolan-Carvalho, singing the lead.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Bizet's friend Ernest Guiraud, who composed the recitatives for the 1875 Vienna production of Carmen, arranged a second L'Arlésienne Suite after Bizet's death.

Source: Booklet

Historical Context

Incidental music, which accompanied stage plays much like film scores today, enjoyed great popularity in the 19th century.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Gabriel Fauré's Masques et bergamasques was a commission from Prince Albert I of Monaco, intended to revive the divertissement comique genre and evoke the atmosphere of Watteau's paintings.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

The German-Danish composer Johann Adolph Scheibe believed that overtures and entr'actes in incidental music should always be connected to the drama's content and prepare the audience for the stage action.

Source: Booklet

Historical Context

During the 19th century, music's perception shifted from a subservient art form to an autonomous, elevated, and sublime art, as described by writer and critic E.T.A. Hoffmann.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Georges Bizet's L'Arlésienne was originally incidental music for a three-act play adapted from a short story by Alphonse Daudet, which premiered in 1872.

Source: Booklet

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