Jean-Jacques Rousseau

From high atop beautiful downtown Rouses, New York, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. The role of Sadko today is being played by Henri Rousseau. Scooter the Wonder Dog will be played by Marius Russo. The role of the Bobsie Twins is being played by Rene Russo and  Mel Gibson . The role of Ken Moss is being played by Anthony Russo .  The role of Brian Carpenter is being played by Joe Russo. In the third half of the program, the role of Lenny the Listener will  be played by John A. Russo.  Our featured French composer is:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau's work in music is little known today, but he managed to create and sustain an atmosphere of conflict in the world of French opera during the mid-eighteenth century. Since Rameau, the reigning master of tragédie lyrique at the Opéra, declared one of Rousseau's early operas "the work of a musical ignoramus," Rousseau launched a lifetime vendetta against the traditions of French opera. The primacy of tragédie lyrique was shaken for a few years after Pergolesi's light comedy La serva padrona was presented in Paris in 1752. Rousseau's brief Le devin du village (The village soothsayer), which was written in a similar, simple, Italianate style to a libretto by the composer, extolling the joys of rustic romance, was premiered the same year. It could hardly have demonstrated a greater contrast with Rameau's elaborate, rigorously mannered (and very long) operas based on mythology or ancient history. Rousseau's opera was a popular success, and while it did not succeed in displacing Rameau's aesthetic, it remained in the repertoire until the early nineteenth century.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Le printemps di Vivaldi: I. Allegro II. Largo III.  Allegro
Barthold Kuijken – Flute Recital: Kuijken, Barthold - Bach, J.S. / Hotteterre, J. / Weiss, S.L. / Rousseau, J.-J. / Bach, C.P.E. / Fischer, J.C.
Doron Braunshtein – Jean-Jacques Rousseau  – Words Are My Home
Cantus Firmus Kammerchor & Consort; Gabriela Bürgler, soprano; Michael Feyfar, tenor; Dominik Wörner, baritone; Andreas Reize, conductor This production, by rising young performers in the first year of an annual summer opera festival at the Swiss Castle Waldegg,  is classified as a live performance, but it is almost completely free of the drawbacks of live recordings: no coughing or clapping, no clumping feet or fade-outs as the singers move around, and good balance between singers and orchestra. 
Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Le devin du village: Ouverture Scene 1: J'ai perdu tout mon bonheur (Colette)  Scene 2: Pedrai-je Colin sans retour? (Colette, Le Devin) Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Le devin du village:   Scene 2: Air: Si des galants de la ville (Colette, Le Devin)  Air: L'amour croit s'il s'inquiete (Le Devin, Colette)  Scene 3: J'ai tout su de Colin (Le Devin)   Scene 4: L'Amour et vos lecons (Colin, Le Devin)
Scene 5: Gai    Scene 5: Air: Je vais revoir ma charmante Maitresse (Colin) Scene 6: Je l'appercois (Colin, Colette)  Scene 6: Air: Ta foi ne m'est point ravie (Colin, Colette)  Scene 6: Duet: Tant qu'a mon Colin (Colette, Colin)  Scene 6: Ensemble: A jamais Colin (Colin, Colette)  Scene 7: Je vous ai delivres (Le Devin, Colin)  Scene 7: Venez, jeunes garcons (Le Devin)  Scene 8: Entree de la jeunesse du Village Scene 8: Colin revient a sa Bergiere (Chorus) Scene 8: Pastorelle pour le villageois  Scene 8: Romance: Dans ma cabane obscure (Colin) Scene 8: Pantomime  Scene 8: Il faut tous a l'envi nous signaler ici (Le Devin, Colin)
Scene 8: Souvent une flamme cherie (Colin, Le Devin, Chorus)  Scene 8: Avec l'objet de mes amours (Colette, Chorus)  Scene 8: Menuet et Allemande  Scene 8: Allons danser sous les ormeaux (Colette, Chorus)
Arpeggione Kammerorchester Hohenems – Promenade avec Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Jean Balissat - Jean Perrin: Œuvres pour orchestre à cordes
Llambías X Wazzabi – Jean-Jacques Rousseau Skriver I Begyndelsen Af Sine Bekendelser  – Monte Lema
Jafni – First-Second

Wandering   – Muses of a Lone Wanderer - Hommage À Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Michael Sheen – Confessions: 'Friendship, Confidence, Intimacy, Sympathy Of Soul...' (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) Eugene Cormon – A Lover's Gift: From Him To Her
Papa Razzi and the Photogs – Jean Jacques Rousseau Was a Deep Thinkin' Person Man  – The Life of This Legendary American Music Man Is Quite Good, Yes

Francois Couperin

From high atop beautiful downtown Cooperstown, New York, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. The role of Sadko today is being played by Francois Kevorkian. Scooter the Wonder Dog will be played by Francois Tetaz. The role of the Bobsie Twins is being played by Francois Hollande and Valerie Trierweiler. The role of Ken Moss is being played by Francois Truffaut.  The role of Brian Carpenter is being played by Francois Rude. In the third half of the program, the role of Lenny the Listener will  be played by Francois Ozon.  Our featured French composer is:


Francois Couperin   10 November 1668 – 11 September 1733  was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as Couperin le Grand ("Couperin the Great") to distinguish him from other members of the musically talented Couperin family.
Couperin, François, 1668-1733.  Pièces de clavecin Sylvia Marlowe plays François Couperin, Le Grand.  Decca,  1970 Contains the complete 8th, and 6th orders, Les folies françaises from the 13th order, and other selections from various orders.  Sylvia Marlowe, harpsichord. 
Ravel, Maurice 1875-1937. Tombeau de Couperin; RCA Red Seal 1969.   Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia; Anshel Brusilow, conductor. 
Cantatas by A. Scarlatti, Telemann, and Couperin Angel, [1965]  Leçons de ténèbres, 1st lesson for Wednesday of Holy Week, by F. Couperin Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone, with instrumental ensemble. 
Couperin, François, 1668-1733. Leçons de Ténèbres Leçons de Ténèbres Lamentations of Jeremiah. RCA Victor [1969]   Alfred Deller, counter-tenor, with Philip Todd, tenor (in no. 3); Raphaël Perulli, viola da gamba; Michel Chapuis, organ. 
Couperin, Francois, 1668-1733 Apothéose de Lulli Four pieces for two harpsichords. Le Parnasse ou L'apothéose de Corelli.  Decca, [1968]. Instrumental ensemble; Sylvia Marlowe, conductor and harpsichord.
Couperin, François, 1668-1733 Les nations.  Mercury, [1964?] L'espagnole.--La piémontoise.--La françoise. 511 Stuttgart Baroque Ensemble; Marcel Couraud, conductor.

Jean-Baptiste Lully

The role of Sadko today is being played by J.B. Priestley. Scooter the Wonder Dog will be played by Jusrin Bieber.The role of the Bobsie Twins is being played by James and Tina Brown. The role of Ken Moss is being played by James Bond.  The role of Brian Carpenter is being played by Jason Bourne. In the third half of the program, the role of Lenny the Listener will  be played by Joey Belladonna.  Our featured French composer is:


Jean-Baptiste Lully  born Giovanni Battista Lulli; 28 November 1632 – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer, instrumentalist, and dancer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He is considered the chief master of the French baroque style. Lully disavowed any Italian influence in French music of the period. He became a French subject in 1661.Clearly the most successful musician of his time, in terms of power and financial wealth, Jean-Baptiste Lully was almost singularly responsible for the shape of French opera during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Born Italian, he died a wealthy Frenchman at the early age of 54. Although most remembered for his opera compositions, he was also a talented violinist and dancer. His business sense and, some say, unscrupulous manner, made him one of the most powerful musicians in all of France, if not Europe. His patron and friend King Louis XIV further cemented Lully's position at the top of Europe's musical elite. Lully's operas remain his legacy, but he also composed over 30 ballets, motets, incidental music, dances, and marches.

Lully was born the son of a miller who lost custody of him after his mother died. While in his early teenage years, Lully was taken to France by the Chevalier de Guise in March 1646. He served as a musician and page in Mlle de Montpensier's court until she was exiled, in 1652, to her estate at St. Targeau for her role in the Fronde. During his service with the Montepensier court, Lully was schooled in guitar, violin, and dance. His talents brought him to the attention of the young King Louis XIV. After his release from the Montepensier court, Lully joined the King's court, as a composer and dancer. He became the leader of a small string ensemble formed by the King. Lully's prestige at the court, as well as throughout France, grew even more when he was appointed the Superintendent of Music and subsequently, the Master of Music for the Royal Family.

When Lully began composing opera in the 1670s, Italy was the center of great opera. Opera in France was in its infancy. Lully's operas, which were based on Italian models but with French libretto, helped popularize the art form. He composed one a year between 1673 and 1680, and then again between 1682 and 1686. Besides being the premier opera composer in Paris at the time, Lully ensured his exalted position by securing patent rights which would ultimately allow him to determine what opera could be performed and severely limiting performances of operas he himself had not approved of. These patent rights, obtained from librettist Pierre Perrin who had been jailed for debt problems, were for the sole right to form the Royal Academy of Music. Lully bargained with Perrin for those rights, paying off his debts and providing him with a lifetime stipend. Lully formed the Royal Academie in March 1672. A year later, in April 1673, restrictions were passed that limited productions performed outside of the academie's auspices to no more than two singers and six players.

Lully was naturalized a French citizen in December 1661. On July 24, 1662, he married the daughter of his mentor and royal chief musician, Michel Lambert. King Louis XIV attended Lully's wedding to Madeleine Lambert and became the godfather of their eldest son. In 1681, Lully was granted Lettres de Noblesse and named one of the Secretaires du Roi. During a performance celebrating the recovery of the King from an illness, Lully accidentally hit his foot with his conducting staff. An infection resulted, and it ultimately killed him. When Lully died in 1687, he left his wife, six children, and an estate with an estimated value of 800,000 livres, a value more than 500 times the annual salary of an average court musician.
Lully, Jean-Baptiste: Divertissement (for first day of Les plaisirs de l'Ile enchantée), LWV22/1-4 (comedie-ballet), 1.Overture 2.First Entrance 3.Second Entrance 4.Second Overture 5.Gavotte pour les Satyres 6.Sarabande  7.Air pour le Vieillard et sa Famille (edited by Mallon, Kevin) 8.Gavotte pour les Suisses 9.Bourée pour les Coutisans Kevin Mallon Conductor Aradia Baroque Ensemble
Jean-Baptiste Lully Composer Concert donne au souper du roy, for keyboard Work Joseph Bonnet Organ The Britannic Organ, Vol.4 Various Artists Oehms Classics

Marche Militaire, for brass ensemble Stuttgart Brass Quartet

Gavotte en rondeau (arranged by Willy Burmester) Sten Frykberg, piano Carl von Garaguly, Violin

Trios pour le coucher du Roi, for 2 violins and continuo, LWV35, Symphonie #1.Dans nos bois Silvandre s'escrie #1.Symphonie #2. Gavotte Menuet La jeune Iris, Menuet Chaconne #1. Dans nos bois Silvandre s'escrie #2  Chaconne #2. Stephan Van Dyck, conductor; Aline Zylberajch, Harpsichord, Musica Favola,  Ensemble
Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687. Isis.Selections Musical Heritage Society, [1968]  With the composer's Armide. Selections.   Prologue.--Duet of the nymphs.--Shivering chorus.--Rondeau (Plaint of Io).--Act III, scenes 3 to 5.--Act III, scene 6. 511 Nadine Sautereau and Jocelyne Chamonin, sopranos: André Mallabrera, tenor; Roger Soyer, bass; Philippe Caillard Chorus; Jean François Paillard Orchestra; Jean François Paillard, conductor. 
The London Baroque Ensemble conducted by Karl Haas. | Decca, [195-?] Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687. Marche pour le Régiment du Roi

Vincent D'Indy

The role of Sadko today is being played by Vincent Price. Scooter the Wonder Dog will be played by Vincent Van Gogh .The role of the Bobsie Twins is being played by Vincent and Jacob Astor. The role of Ken Moss is being played by Vincent D' Onofrio.  The role of Brian Carpenter is being played by Vincent Cronin. In the third half of the program, the role of Lenny the Listener will  be played by Vincent Miceli. Our featured French composer is  Vincent D'Indy.. Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and Louis Diémer. From the age of 14 he studied harmony with Albert Lavignac. At age 19, during the Franco-Prussian War, he enlisted in the National Guard, but returned to musical life as soon as the hostilities were over. The first of his works he heard performed was a Symphonie italienne, at an orchestral rehearsal under Jules Pasdeloup; the work was admired by Georges Bizet and Jules Massenet, with whom he had already become acquainted. On the advice of Henri Duparc, he became a devoted student of César Franck at the Conservatoire de Paris. As a follower of Franck, d'Indy came to admire what he considered the standards of German symphonism.
Prague Symphony Orchestra – La Mort de Wallenstein, Symphonic Poem No. 3, Op. 12 – Berlioz: Le Corsaire, Benvenuto Cellini / D´Indy: La Mort de Wallenstein & Istar
Prague Symphony Orchestra – Istar - Symphonic Variations, Op. 42 – Berlioz: Le Corsaire, Benvenuto Cellini / D´Indy: La Mort de Wallenstein & Istar
Vincent d'Indy – Symphonie sur un chant montagnard francais, Op. 25, "Symphonie cevenole": I. Assez lent - Moderement anime Martin Helmchen Swiss Romande Orchestra – D'Indy - Saint-Saëns - Chausson
Vincent d'Indy speaks  – Les Autographes Vocaux
Vincent d'Indy – Suite en parties pour Flute obligée, Violon, Alto, Violoncelle et Harpe/ I. Entrée en Sonate / II. Air Désuet... III. Sarabande avec deux doubles  end part 1 IV. Farandole variée en Rondeau Carlo Jans, Kateřina Englichová & Martinů Quartet – Françaix/ Bordes/ d'Indy/ Pierné/ Jolivet
Le camp Wallenstein : Finale Various Artists – 300 ans d'opéra à Bruxelles
Vincent d'Indy – Romances sans paroles: No. 2. Moderato No. 3. Allegro vivace Michael Schafer – D'Indy: Piano Works, Vol. 3
Vincent d'Indy – 4 Pieces, Op. 16: No. 1. Serenade   No. 2. Choral grave: No. 3. Scherzetto No. 4. Etude: Agitato Michael Schafer – D'Indy: Piano Works, Vol. 3
Vincent d'Indy – Helvetia, Op. 17: No. 1. Aarau No.2  Schinznach No. 3 Laufenburg Michael Schafer – D'Indy: Piano Works, Vol. 3
Vincent d'Indy – Nocturne, Op. 26 Michael Schafer – D'Indy: Piano Works, Vol. 3
Opera overtures.Columbia [1961] --Fervaal, by Indy  Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Thomas Schippers, conductor.
Leonard Warren on tour in Russia.RCA Victor 1958.   Recorded in Leningrad and Kiev, May 1958.  D'Indy.--Agnus Dei  Leonard Warren, baritone; Willard Sektberg, piano.