Emmanuel Chabrier

Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier   (January 18, 1841 – September 13, 1894) was a French Romantic composer and pianist. Although known primarily for two of his orchestral works, España and Joyeuse marche, he left an important corpus of operas (including the increasingly popular L'étoile), songs, and piano music as well. These works, though small in number, are of very high quality, and he was admired by composers as diverse as Debussy, Ravel, Richard Strauss, Satie, Schmitt, Stravinsky, and the group of composers known as Les six. Stravinsky alluded to España in his ballet Petrushka, Ravel wrote that the opening bars of Le roi malgré lui changed the course of harmony in France, Poulenc wrote a biography of the composer, and Richard Strauss conducted the first staged performance of Chabrier's incomplete opera Briséïs.
Chabrier was also associated with some of the leading writers and painters of his time. He was especially friendly with the painters Claude Monet and Édouard Manet, and collected Impressionist paintings before Impressionism became fashionable. A number of such paintings from his personal collection are now housed in some of the world's leading art museums.
Chabrier – Feuillet d'album Various Artists – Classics for your Pregnancy – Pregnancy Classical Music for Relaxation and Meditation
Emmanuel Chabrier – Rhapsodie Espana Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – A Calendar Of Classics - October
Chabrier, Alexis Emmanuel – Chabrier: Larghetto for Horn and Orchestra - Larghetto for Horn and Orchestra Hermann Baumann & Gewandhausorchester Leipzig & Kurt Masur – French Horn Music
Chabrier, Alexis Emmanuel – Chabrier: Fête polonaise - Fête polonaise Detroit Symphony Orchestra & Paul Paray
Alexis Emanuel Chabrier – Marche Joyeuse 21st Century Symphony Orchestra
Emmanuel Chabrier – Chabrier: Les cigales Susan Graham – Un Frisson Français - A Century of French Song
Emmanuel Chabrier – Suite Pastorale: Idylle  Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Wiener Philharmoniker – Chabrier: Gwendoline - Overture Wiener Philharmoniker & John Eliot Gardiner – Chabrier: España; Suite pastorale
Georges Gautier/Michel Fockenoy/René Schirrer/Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon/Sir John Eliot Gardiner – L' Étoile, ACT 1: No. 1 - Chanson à 2 voix et choeur: "Du monde! ... De ma main, cher camarade" (Ouf/Patacha/Zalzal) Sir John Eliot Gardiner/Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon – Chabrier - L'Etoile
Chabrier, Alexis Emmanuel – Chabrier: Danse slave - Danse slave Detroit Symphony Orchestra & Paul Paray
Emmanuel Chabrier – Le Roi Malgré Lui: Act I, I. Prélude
Emmanuel Chabrier – Pièces pittoresques 1. Paysage Marcelle Meyer – Piano Performances 1925-1957
Rena Kyriakou – Suite de Valse Rena Kyriakou & Walter Klien – Chabrier: Complete Piano Music
Emmanuel Chabrier – Works: Air de ballet  – Rarities of Piano Music 1987-1988 Peter Froundjian
Wiener Philharmoniker – Chabrier: Suite pastorale - 2. Danse villageoise Wiener Philharmoniker & John Eliot Gardiner – Chabrier: España; Suite pastorale
Wiener Philharmoniker – Chabrier: Suite pastorale - 3. Sous-bois
Wiener Philharmoniker – Chabrier: Suite pastorale - 4. Scherzo-Valse
Franck Leguérinel, François Charruyer – Ronde gauloise Agnès Mellon, Franck Leguérinel, Françoise Tillard, François Charruyer – Emmanuel Chabrier: Complete Songs/Les Mélodies
RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra – Jocelyn: Berceuse Various Artists – French Masters: Ravel, Debussy, Chabrier, Godard, Poulenc, Ibert, Duparc, Duruflé
In his final years, Chabrier was strained by financial problems caused by the collapse of his bankers, suffered from failing health brought on by the terminal stage of syphilis, and depression about the neglect of his stage works in France. The death of his beloved 'Nanine' in January 1891 greatly affected him. He became obsessed with the composition of his opera Briséïs, which was inspired by a tragedy of Goethe and melodic echos of Wagner, but he completed only one act. At the Paris premiere of Gwendoline, which finally took place in December 1893, the ailing composer in a box did not understand that the applause was for him. In 1892 he had written to his friend Lecocq: "Never has an artist more loved, more tried to honor music than me, none has suffered more from it; and I will go on suffering from it for ever".
He succumbed to general paralysis in the last year of his life, dying in Paris at the age of 53. Although he had asked to be buried near the tomb of Manet, he was laid to rest in the cemetery of Montparnasse.

 

Claudio Abbado

From high atop 

Patisserie Claude

187 W 4th St
(between Jones St & Barrow St)
New York, NY 10014 it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music.The role of Sadko today is being played by Claudio Arrau. Scooter the Wonder Dog will be played by  Appius Claudius Sabinus Inregillensis.  The role of the Bobsie Twins is being played by  Claudio and Velveeta Aquaviva. The role of Ken Moss is being played by  Claudio Monteverdi. The role of Brian Carpenter is being played by Claudio Castagnoli.   In the third half of the program, the role of Lenny the Listener will  be played by  Claudio Sanchez.  Claudio Abbado, who decided to become a conductor after hearing a concert at La Scala at the age of eight and went on to lead the Milan opera company and top orchestras for more than half a century, has died at the age of  80.
Claudio Abbado – Symphony No. 31 in D Major, K. 297 (300a) "Paris": I. Allegro assai – Mozart: Symphonies No. 31 "Paris" & 25; Masonic Funeral Music; Posthorn Symphony [Expanded Edition]Sony Classical/Legacy Berlin Philharmonic
Claudio Abbado – 1812 Overture, Op. 49: Largo; Andante; Allegro giusto Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, Tchaikovsky: Complete Symphonies; 1812 Overture, March Slave; Romeo and Juliet Concert Overture; Nutcracker Suite Sony Bmg Europe
Ligeti, György – Ligeti: Atmosphères – Ligeti: Atmosphères; Volumina; Lux aeterna; Lontano Wiener Philharmoniker 2012 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Claudio Abbado/Emmanuel Pahud/Berliner Philharmoniker – Flute Concerto No. 2 in D, K.314: I. Allegro aperto - Mozart Warner Classics 1997 EMI Records ltd
Claudio Abbado – Marche Slave, Op. 31Sony Classical Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Ravel, Maurice – Ravel: Piano Concerto in G - 3. Presto Martha Argerich & Berliner Philharmoniker & Claudio Abbado – Ravel: Piano Concerto in G; Gaspard de la Nuit; Sonatine Deutsche Grammophon
Giuseppe Verdi – Nabucco, Act 3: "Va pensiero...Oh, chi piange?" – Verdi: Opera Hits Ambrosian Opera Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra and Claudio Abbado Nicolai Ghiaurov
Prokofiev, Sergei – Prokofiev: 2. Romance - 2. Romance Elena Obraztsova & Adolph Herseth & London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra & Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Claudio Abbado – Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky; Scythian Suite; Lieutenant Kijé
Angela Gheorghiu/Daniela Barcellona/Roberto Alagna/Julian Konstantinov/Orféon Donostiarra/Eric Ericson Chamber Choir/Bo Wannefors/José Antonio Sainz Alfaro/Berliner Philharmoniker/
Claudio Abbado/Swedish Radio Choir – Messa di Requiem, Dies irae: Tuba mirum
Wagner, Richard – Wagner: Die Walküre - Concert version / Dritter Aufzug - The Ride of the Walkyres Berliner Philharmoniker & Claudio Abbado – Claudio Abbado - The Berlin Album  Deutsche Grammophon
Prokofiev, Sergei – Prokofiev: 1. Russia under the Mongolian Yoke - 1. Russia under the Mongolian Yoke Elena Obraztsova & Adolph Herseth & London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra & Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Claudio Abbado – Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky; Scythian Suite; Lieutenant Kijé Deutsche Grammophon
Claudio Abbado;Berliner Philharmoniker – Kammermusik No. 1, Op.24 No.1: IV. Finale: 1921 (Lebhaft)  – Hindemith: Kammermusik 1-7 & Der Schwanendreher  Warner Classics 2007 EMI Records ltd

Adolphe Adam

From high atop Adams, NY, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. The role of Sadko today is being played by Adam Sander. Scooter the Wonder Dog will be played by  Adam Arkin.   The role of the Bobsie Twins is being played by  Adam West and Adam East . The role of Ken Moss is being played by Adam Smith . The role of Brian Carpenter is being played by Adam Brody.   In the third half of the program, the role of Lenny the Listener will  be played by  Adam Ant.  Our featured great French composer today is Adolphe Adam.
Adam, Adolphe
Le Corsaire (ballet), Le Corsaire - Act 1 - Overture and opening of Scene 1
Performed by: Richard Bonynge, English Chamber Orchestra
La Filleule des Fées (ballet), Prologue (Guillaume's Farm-House) - Nos. 3, 4 and 5 Andrew Mogrelia Conductor Queensland Symphony Orchestra Brisbane  Marco-Polo Rel. December 15, 2001
La Jolie Fille de Gand (ballet), Act 1 - Tableau II (The Main Square In Ghent) No.3 Pas De Deux Andrew Mogrelia Conductor Queensland Symphony Orchestra Brisbane  Marco-Polo Rel. February, 2001
Les Pantins de Violette (operetta), La Chanson du Canari Performed by: Sumi Jo, soprano; Richard Bonynge,  English Chamber Orchestra Decca 2010
French overtures  Mercury.   Adam: If I were king.    Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray, conductor.
Adam, Adolphe,1803-1856.    Giselle.  RCA Victor, [1959]    Paris Conservatoire Orchestra; Albert Wolff, conductor.

César Franck

From high atop Frankfort, KY, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. The role of Sadko today is being played by Cesar Chavez. Scooter the Wonder Dog will be played by  César Millan.   The role of the Bobsie Twins is being played by  Pierre Caesar and Pablo Caesar. The role of Ken Moss is being played by César Tovar  . The role of Brian Carpenter is being played by Cesar Pelli.   In the third half of the program, the role of Lenny the Listener will  be played by  Cesar Romero.  Our featured great French composer today is César Franck
Franck, César, 1822-1890.  The music of Franck.  Mercury [1960]         Marcel Dupré at Saint-Sulpice, v.3        Olympian series.        Grande pièce symphonique.--Fantaisie in A major.-- Pastorale.  511    Marcel Dupré playing the gallery organ in the Church of  Saint-Sulpice, Paris.  Recorded midsummer 1959.
Franck, Cesar, 1822-1890.   Variations symphoniques, piano, orchestra.  Symphonic variations.   Angel [1973]      Alexis Weissenberg, piano; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra;  Herbert von Karajan, conductor.
Franck, César, 1822-1890.  Symphony, D minor.   Angel [1970] Orchestre de Paris; Herbert von Karajan, conductor.
Fránck, Cesar, 1822-1890.     The complete organ works.    [Toledo, Ohio]  Gregorian Institute of America [1964]    Jean Langlais playing the organ in the Basilica of St.  Clotilde, Paris.
Franck, César, 1822-1890.   Chorales  Chorale no. 1, in E major. Chorale no. 2, in B minor.   Chorale no. 3, in A minor.   Columbia [1957?]       Albert Schweitzer, organ.
Psyché (symphonic poem) ; Le chasseur maudit (symphonic poem) / Franck    Camden, N.J. :  RCA Victor, [1955?]  Chicago Symphony Orchestra ;   Désiré Defauw  , conductor. 

Claude Debussy

From high atop Claude, Montana, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. The role of Sadko today is being played by Claude Rains. Scooter the Wonder Dog will be played by  Claude King.   The role of the Bobsie Twins is being played by  Claude and Maude Pompidou. The role of Ken Moss is being played by  Claude Monet. The role of Brian Carpenter is being played by Claude Giroux.   In the third half of the program, the role of Lenny the Listener will  be played by  Claude Pepper.  Our featured great French composer today is Claude Debussy.
Achille-Claude Debussy  22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918  was a French composer.   Debussy was among the most influential composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and his use of non-traditional scales and chromaticism influenced many composers who followed.
Debussy's music is noted for its sensory component and frequent eschewing of tonality. The French literary style of his period was known as Symbolism, and this movement directly inspired Debussy both as a composer and as an active cultural participant.
Claude Achille Debussy : his story and his music. Sine Qua Non, 1974.
Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918   Walter Gieseking plays Debussy.  Odyssey, [1969]  Walter Gieseking, piano.
Debussy, Claude, Boulez conducts Debussy.  Columbia, 1969 New Philharmonia Orchestra, London.  Cleveland Orchestra.
Debussy's private life was often turbulent. At the age of 18 he began an eight-year affair with Marie-Blanche Vasnier, wife of a Parisian civil servant. The relationship eventually faltered following his winning of the Prix de Rome in 1884 and obligatory residence in Rome.
On his permanent return to Paris and his parents' home on the avenue de Berlin (now rue de Liège) he began a tempestuous relationship with Gabrielle ('Gaby') Dupont, a tailor's daughter from Lisieux, soon cohabiting with her on the Rue de Londres, and later the Rue Gustave Doré. During this time he also had an affair with the singer Thérèse Roger, to whom he was briefly engaged. Such cavalier behaviour was widely condemned, and precipitated the end of his long friendship with Ernest Chausson. He ultimately left Dupont for her friend Rosalie ('Lilly') Texier, a fashion model whom he married in 1899, after threatening suicide if she refused him. Although Texier was affectionate, practical, straightforward, and well liked by Debussy's friends and associates, he became increasingly irritated by her intellectual limitations and lack of musical sensitivity. In 1904, Debussy was introduced to Emma Bardac, wife of Parisian banker Sigismond Bardac, by her son Raoul, one of his students. In contrast to Texier, Bardac was a sophisticate, a brilliant conversationalist, and an accomplished singer. After despatching Lilly to her father's home in Bichain on 15 July 1904, Debussy secretly took Bardac to Jersey for a holiday. On their return to France, Debussy wrote to Texier from Dieppe on 11 August, informing her their marriage was over, but still making no mention of Bardac. Debussy briefly moved to an apartment at 10 av. Alphand. On 14 October, five days before their fifth wedding anniversary, Texier attempted suicide, shooting herself in the chest with a revolver while standing in the Place de la Concorde; she survived, although the bullet remained lodged in her vertebrae for the rest of her life. The ensuing scandal was to alienate Debussy from many of his friends, whilst Bardac was disowned by her family.

In the spring of 1905, finding the hostility towards them intolerable, Debussy and Bardac (now pregnant) fled to England, via Jersey. Bardac's divorce was finalized in May.The couple settled at the Grand Hotel in Eastbourne from 24 July to 30 August 1905, where Debussy was to correct proofs to his symphonic suite La mer, and celebrate his divorce from Texier on 2 August.
After a brief visit to London, the couple returned to Paris in September, buying a house in a courtyard development off the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne (now Avenue Foch), where Debussy was to reside for the rest of his life. Their daughter (the composer's only child) Claude-Emma was born there on 30 October. Her parents were eventually married in 1908, their troubled union enduring until Debussy's death in 1918. More affectionately known as 'Chouchou', Claude-Emma was possibly the only person Debussy ever loved, and a great musical inspiration to him (she was the dedicatee of his Children's Corner suite). Debussy was to remark towards the end of his life, when gravely ill, that were it not for Chouchou, he might have committed suicide. She outlived her father by scarcely a year, succumbing to the diphtheria epidemic of 1919 after her doctor administered the wrong treatment