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Reynaldo Hahn Hahn Benjamin Baker Lowe James Baillieu Fauré Schubert Mendelssohn Cheek Bayreuth Messager 1874 1875 1921 1922 1947 2015
Reynaldo Hahn +••.••(...)) - Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor (1921) I. Molto agitato e con fuoco [0:00] II. Andante, non troppo lento [12:39] III. Allegretto grazioso [23:06] Benjamin Baker & Bartosz Woroch, violin Adam Newman, viola Tim Lowe, cello James Baillieu, piano (2015) Reynaldo Hahn's Piano Quintet is a work in three movements typically lasting around 28 minutes. "Hahn’s Piano Quintet was composed in 1922 and published the following year. Its opening is fresh, agreeably direct and completely without preamble. The style is both comfortably eclectic and unashamedly retrospective: modulation techniques suggest the most youthful works of Fauré, such as his A major Violin Sonata, Opus 13 (1875/6), while the natural songwriter’s intermittent taste for unassuming chordal repetition in the piano accompaniment to overt thematic exposition suggests a remote debt to Schubert. The music—and in particular its fleet-footed but economical piano part—has a deft, lucid mobility and an economy of rhetorical gesture far less easy to achieve than it sounds. A Dvorák-like openness and quasi-vernacular charm comes and goes, while at other times the pianist’s indefatigable ripplings suggest Mendelssohn’s piano-trio writing. A memorably successful second subject gives place to resourceful examination of both principal ideas. F sharp major expansiveness asserts itself late on in the movement, only to be subverted by the almost tongue-in-cheek terseness of a final return to the minor. The slow second movement presents a soulful, song-like theme in C sharp minor. Fauré seems to preside more closely over the unhurried triple time and the instrumentation itself. Tritonal opposition of non-cadential dominant sevenths and ninths enhance the ‘sidestepping’ effect of key changes, perhaps reminding one that the youthful Fauré had pursued Wagner performances to Bayreuth and to England in company with Messager in the eighteen-eighties, and suggesting that Wagnerian technique (not generally very apparent in Fauré’s stylistic make-up) might nonetheless be a productive subliminal influence for the perceptive Fauré disciple. This movement remains predominantly introverted, ostensibly heading towards a climax but then relaxing into the idyllic retrospection of an unexpected F major episode (ushering in a change of time signature). The dominant pedal note underpinning this passage conveys a certain quasi-rustic wistfulness which again suggests the prayer-like sensibility of certain quiet Dvorák chamber movements. Subsequent features include string unison writing (typical of Fauré) at moments of heightened intensity, ingenious combination of the themes from both foregoing sections (and time signatures), and a reprise of the secondary paragraph, heard now a semitone lower than before. The movement reaches an unhurried conclusion in the key of C sharp major. The Quintet’s third and last movement plays a time-honoured ‘is-it-a-scherzo/intermezzo-or-a-finale?’ game, launching itself with amiable simplicity as another would-be rustic conception over a musette-like pedal note. As this proceeds it begins to admit a touch of melodic ‘neo-Baroquery’. This, in studiedly perverse combination with the homespun wistfulness of the initial conception, seems almost to suggest the improbable intrusion of some synthetically conceived public school song. More to the point, it conveys a shrewdly misleading impression of much more episodic and unassuming structural thinking than is actually at work, as does the Schumannesque cleanness of the ensuing episode’s dialogue between melodic piano octaves and punctuating harmonic strings. Soon the main theme burgeons momentarily in E major. The thematic material of the first movement now becomes more prominent. Some ingeniously resourceful combination of these ideas with those of the slow movement ensues (embracing a mischievous false recapitulation in the key of F major, not F sharp) before a radiant statement of the inspired second subject from the work’s first movement bursts forth in A major. This, however, is not allowed to gain ideas above its station, and nor are we as near the end of the work as its appearance seems to suggest. The generalized example of Fauré and the specific one of Dvorák’s A major Piano Quintet seem to compete amicably (and convincingly) for the limelight. A recapitulation beset by agreeable sleights-of-hand extends the canonic and other possibilities of the music in an F sharp major coda which is in no hurry to end the proceedings but which, thanks to the memorably distinct nature of the principal themes, never threatens to outstay its welcome." (source: Hyperion)
André Messager Offenbach Clairville Vallin Donjon Saint Clair Opéra Comique 2013
Terzetto "Avant hier, pas plus tard" extrait de : MISS DOLLAR Livret de Ch. Clairville & A. Vallin - Musique d’André Messager Clémence Olivier, soprano Edwige Bourdy, soprano Yves Coudray, ténor Nina Uhari, piano Filmé lors du concert "Eau… opéra-comique" donné le 10 août 2013, à l’Hôtel Le Donjon - Domaine Saint Clair - Etretat
Hector Dufranne Demest Charles Gounod Vincent Indy Indy Richard Wagner Jan Blockx Christoph Willibald Gluck Engelbert Humperdinck Ermanno Wolf Ferrari Alfred Bruneau Henri Rabaud Gustave Doret Xavier Leroux André Messager Raoul Laparra Maurice Ravel Giacomo Puccini Richard Strauss Jules Massenet Léandre Sergei Prokofiev Manuel Falla Edmond Polignac Polignac Sachs Opéra Comique Opéra Monte Carlo Covent Garden Notre Dame Théâtre Champs Élysées Manhattan Opera Company Chicago Grand Opera Company 1870 1896 1897 1898 1900 1901 1902 1904 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1921 1922 1923 1924 1935 1939 1951
Hector Dufranne Manon A quoi bon l'économie Pre dog 3 32767 enregistré en 1907 Hector Dufranne (25 October 1870 – 4 May 1951) was a Belgian operatic bass-baritone Dufranne was born in Mons. He studied at the Brussels Conservatory with Désirée Demest before making his professional opera debut in 1896 at La Monnaie as Valentin in Charles Gounod's Faust. He returned to that opera house several times to sing such roles as Grymping in Vincent d'Indy's Fervaal (1897), Alberich in Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold (1898), Thomas in Jan Blockx's Thyl Uylenspiegel (1900), Thoas in Christoph Willibald Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride (1902), the Innkeeper in Engelbert Humperdinck's Königskinder (1912), and Rocco in Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's I gioielli della Madonna (1913). Dufranne sang at the Opéra-Comique in Paris from 1900 to 1912, making his first appearance as Thoas. He appeared in several world premieres with the company including creating the roles of Saluces in Griselidis (1901), the title role in Alfred Bruneau's L' Ouragan (1901), Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande (1902), Amaury-Ganelon in La Fille de Roland by Henri Rabaud (1904), Koebi in Gustave Doret's Les Armaillis (1906), the title role in Xavier Leroux's Le Chemineau, Clavaroche in Fortunio by André Messager (1907), the fiancé in Raoul Laparra's La Habanéra (1908), and Don Iñigo Gomez in Maurice Ravel's L'Heure espagnole (1911). He also sang Scarpia in the Opéra-Comique’s first production of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca (1909). Dufranne also appeared periodically at the Paris Opera beginning in 1907. He notably portrayed the role of John the Baptist in their first production of Richard Strauss's Salome (1910). He also sang at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo in 1907 where he took part in the creation of two world premieres, the role of André Thorel in Jules Massenet's Thérèse and the title role in Bruneau's Naïs Micoulin. In 1914 he sang the role of Golaud in his only appearance at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden in London. In 1908 Dufranne went to the United States for the first time to sing with the Manhattan Opera Company in the American premiere of Pelléas et Mélisande. He returned for several more productions through 1910, appearing as le Prieur in Le jongleur de Notre-Dame (1909), Caoudal in Sapho (1909), Rabo in Jan Blockx's Herbergprinses (performed in Italian as La Princesse d'Auberge, 1909), John the Baptist in Richard Strauss's Salome (1910), and Saluces in Massenet's Griselidis (1910). He also sang with the Chicago Grand Opera Company and the Chicago Opera Association from 1910 to 1922, creating there Léandre in The Love for Three Oranges (in French) by Sergei Prokofiev, in 1921. In 1922, Dufranne returned to Paris where he continued to appear in operas in all the major houses in addition to appearing in other opera houses in France. He also spent a brief time performing in Amsterdam in 1935. In 1923 he created the part of Don Quixote in the stage première of El retablo de maese Pedro under the baton of the composer, Manuel de Falla. The performance was for a private audience and was held in the private theatre of Winnaretta Singer, Princess Edmond de Polignac. In 1924, he appeared at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in the world premiere of Léon Sachs's Les Burgraves. With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Dufranne retired from the stage, with his last performance being the role of Golaud at the opera house in Vichy. He lived in Paris where he taught singing for many years before his death in 1951. Source Wikipedia
Schubert David Scull Bispham Francesco Lamperti Lamperti Bayreuth Longueville André Messager Jean Reszke Emma Albani Jean Lassalle Gustav Mahler Ignace Paderewski Ethel Smyth Lillian Nordica Olive Fremstad Ernestine Schumann Heink Schumann Clara Butt Hans Richter Arthur Nikisch Felix Mottl Anton Seidl Walter Damrosch Macmillan Metropolitan Opera Covent Garden 1891 1892 1896 1903 1912 1920
Schubert: “Der Wanderer” by David Bispham 1912 This record is proof that older Columbia 78 rpm records sound really great when they are in near mint condition. For a 1912 acoustic recording the voice sounds very realistic and clear on this record. And, Bispham signed the wax master of the 12 inch record which shows clearly on the runout area of the pressed record. This was a somewhat common thing for classical artists on the Columbia label. David Bisphan was an American operatic baritone born in the mid-19th century. He studied in Italy and then sang extensively in England and the USA as well as across Europe. An incredible voice not all that well known these days. He sang at the Metropolitan opera, mostly in Wagner roles, from 1896 to 1903. After 1903 he sang few opera roles. Instead he performed in recitals and sang and recorded art song and lieder. “David Scull Bispham studied singing in Florence with Luigi Vannuccini and in Milan with Francesco Lamperti. He also studied in Bayreuth. In 1891 he was selected from among fifty applicants to perform the rôle of the Duc de Longueville in a London performance of André Messager's LA BASOCHE, marking his first professional appearance on any stage. He was engaged by the Royal Opera at Covent Garden to sing the part of Beckmesser in DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG in June 1892. This production was also to feature Jean de Reszke, Emma Albani, and Jean Lassalle in the other leading rôles. De Reszke fell ill during rehearsals, and the production had to be cancelled. On the day of the cancellation, however, Bispham was asked to substitute on the following day as Kurwenal in TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, under Gustav Mahler. This was Bispham's first Wagnerian rôle. His success there brought him a contract for Covent Garden, where he appeared, primarily in Wagnerian rôles, for all but two of the next ten seasons. Bispham made his American début, once again in Wagner, at the Metropolitan Opera on18 November, 1896, as Beckmesser. He remained with the company until 1903, singing mainly Wagnerian rôles; he also appeared in the American premières of Ignace Paderewski's MANRU and Ethel Smyth's DER WALD. He was a close personal friend of American soprano Lillian Nordica, with whom he travelled to Australia on her last tour before her death. He was also a frequent professional colleague of both De Reszke brothers (Jean and Edouard), Olive Fremstad, Ernestine Schumann-Heink and Dame Clara Butt, among singers, and Hans Richter, Arthur Nikisch, Felix Mottl, Anton Seidl and Walter Damrosch, among conductors. Bispham wrote a memoir of his professional career called A QUAKER SINGER'S RECOLLECTIONS, published by Macmillan in January 1920.” - Zillah Dorset Akron DAHR Link: (http•••) Wikipedia Link: (http•••)
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