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Georges Bizet: Symphonie en Ut, Roma, Jeux d'enfants

9/1/2017, 13 Tracks, 1:21:48

Featuring

  • Zdeněk Košler
  • Fuat Mansurov
  • Czech Philharmonic
  • Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra
  • Georges Bizet

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Composition History

Bizet's Symphony in C, written before he was 17, was not publicly performed until 1935, nearly a century after its composition.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Bizet's Symphony 'Roma' was written over an eleven-year span, between his ages of 22 and 33, and he died before finishing his definitive version.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

The manuscript for Bizet's Symphony in C was given by his widow to her friend Reynaldo Hahn, who then passed it to the Paris Conservatoire.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Bizet's 'Jeux d'enfants' (Children's Games) suite, originally for piano duet, features five movements he arranged for small orchestra, demonstrating his masterful scoring.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Zdeněk Košler, a Czech conductor on this album, won the prestigious Mitropoulos conducting competition in New York in 1963 and became assistant conductor to Leonard Bernstein.

Source: Booklet

Critical Reception

The success of Bizet's opera Carmen has often overshadowed his non-theatrical works, including his Symphony in C.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Georges Bizet, the composer, died believing his opera Carmen was a failure, despite it becoming one of the greatest operas.

Source: Booklet

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