Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Jarvi - Neeme Jarvi conducts Ibert (2016)
Jacques Ibert - Orchestral Works (2016)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, conducted by Neeme Järvi
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 350 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 195 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHSA 5168 | Time: 01:22:15
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, conducted by Neeme Järvi
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 350 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 195 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHSA 5168 | Time: 01:22:15
Neeme Järvi and the OSR continue their exploration of French orchestral music with this fourth album: a merry collection from the best of the vigorously ebullient music of Jacques Ibert. Among the numerous winners of the famous Prix de Rome between its institution by Napoleon in 1803 and its abandonment in 1968, the twentieth century provides us with repertoire works from only one composer: Jacques Ibert, whose characteristically clear orchestration is emphasised by strong melodic lines and supported by lively ostinato patterns in the bass. At the same time, the album reveals what an eclectic composer Ibert was. The contrast between his two best-known pieces is a perfect example: Divertissement, for small orchestra, is light-hearted, even frivolous; Escales…, on the other hand, is a ripely romantic work for large orchestra.
Jacques Ibert's music took shape during tumultuous years, but never lost its fundamental lightness, even when the French neoclassic school had begun to decline. Jazz influences are present, but they are largely sublimated into a subtle kind of rhythmic freedom that sets Ibert apart from his contemporaries. The music depends on total smoothness in the grand French conservatory tradition, breaking first into upturned corners of the mouth and then, occasionally, if properly shaped by a sympathetic conductor, into a full smile. The Orchestra of the Suisse Romande is not French, but they're a veteran outfit with years of tradition, and they follow the baton of Neeme Järvi with flawless coordination. Järvi is a versatile conductor, but in French music of the 20th century he is truly to the manner born. Sample any of the movements of the Divertissement (tracks 7-12) or the Suite symphonique ("Paris," tracks 14-19), programmatic works both composed in 1930. They would seem delicate if everything were not so tightly knit together; they could be dull unless the precise right note is struck. Others have done so in the past, but perhaps there hasn't been a meeting of orchestra and conductor in this music that's as fortunate as this one. Add in excellent sound from Geneva's Victoria Hall, and the result is an absolute delight.Review by James Manheim, Allmusic.com
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Jarvi - Neeme Jarvi conducts Ibert (2016)
Ibert always claimed he followed no compositional schools or aesthetic movements, though his reputation is hampered by charges of eclecticism, and his work between his gravitation towards post-Impressionism (Ravel was a close friend) and a fondness for the jazz inflected modernism of Les Six (Milhaud and Honegger were fellow composition students).
Neeme Järvi examines the apparent contradictions by contextualising his two best-known works, the Debussian Escales… (1920), inspired by Mediterranean ports of call during Ibert’s First World War naval service, and the popular Divertissement of 1930, derived from his incidental music for a production of Eugène Labiche’s An Italian Straw Hat. Järvi gives us a darker Divertissement than usual. The humour is mordant rather than breezy, the tone at times acerbic. But the shimmering Nocturne, with its poised piano solo, transports us into a sensual world more fully explored in Escales…, and the latter gets one of its finest performances on disc, superbly nuanced, and quite exquisitely played.
It’s the rest of the CD, though, that makes it special. The Suite symphonique, ‘Paris’ swerves garishly between the mechanism of Pacific 231 and the classiest of foxtrots and waltzes in its depiction of a teeming metropolis. The sad, haunting Sarabande pour Dulcinée comes from the soundtrack for George Pabst’s 1933 film Don Quichotte, originally offered to Ravel, who was too ill to undertake it. Ibert was also a master of the pièce d’occasion, and Järvi includes the riotous Bacchanale, written to mark the 10th anniversary of the Third Programme – one wonders just what the BBC made of it – and the grandiose Ouverture de fête, commissioned in 1940, alongside Strauss’s Japanische Festmusik, for the 2600th anniversary of the founding of the Japanese imperial dynasty. Ibert emerges from it all as a fine composer, whose unity lies in his almost impudent diversity, and who is often far from frivolous as some have maintained. And the disc allows Järvi to show off his Swiss orchestra to perfection. Very fine.Review by Ashley, Gramophone
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Jarvi - Neeme Jarvi conducts Ibert (2016)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Jarvi - Neeme Jarvi conducts Ibert (2016)
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01. Escales… - I. Rome-Palerme (07:04)
02. Escales… - II. Tunis-Nefta (02:40)
03. Escales… - III. Valence (05:28)
04. Sarabande pour Dulcinée (03:38)
05. Ouverture de fête (13:40)
06. Féerique (06:55)
07. Divertissement - I. Introduction (01:12)
08. Divertissement - II. Cortège (05:11)
09. Divertissement - III. Nocturne (02:32)
10. Divertissement - IV. Valse (02:58)
11. Divertissement - V. Parade (01:43)
12. Divertissement - VI. Finale (02:15)
13. Hommage à Mozart (05:01)
14. Suite symphonique 'Paris' - I. Le Métro (02:18)
15. Suite symphonique 'Paris' - II. Faubourgs (02:37)
16. Suite symphonique 'Paris' - III. La Mosquée de Paris (01:41)
17. Suite symphonique 'Paris' - IV. Restaurant au Bois de Boulogne (03:04)
18. Suite symphonique 'Paris' - V. Le Paquebot 'Ile-de-France' (02:13)
19. Suite symphonique 'Paris' - VI. Parade Foraine (01:33)
20. Bacchanale (08:24)
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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Jarvi - Neeme Jarvi conducts Ibert (2016)
