Benjamin Britten - Les illuminations, Quatre Chansons françaises, Serenade (1989)
Benjamin Britten - Les illuminations, Quatre Chansons françaises, Serenade
XLD Rip | FLAC+CUE+LOG | Covers | 58:55 | 258 MB
20th Century Classical | 1989 | Chandos
XLD Rip | FLAC+CUE+LOG | Covers | 58:55 | 258 MB
20th Century Classical | 1989 | Chandos
Felicity Lott, soprano - Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor - Michael Thompson, horn
Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Bryden Thomson, conductor
TRACKS
Les Illuminations, Op. 18 (1939), for soprano and string orchestra - Texts by Arthur Rimbaud:
01. I Fanfare. Maestoso - Largamente [02:04]
02. II Villes. Allegro energico [02:37]
03. IIIA Phrase. Lento ed estatico [01:09]
04. IIIB Antique. Allegretto, un poco mosso [02:14]
05. IV Royauté. Allegro maestoso [01:38]
06. V Marine. Allegro con brio [01:03]
07. VI Interlude. Moderato con brio [02:22]
08. VII Being Beauteous. Lento ma comodo [04:19]
09. VIII Parade. Alla marcia [02:55]
10. IX Départ. Largo mesto - Largamente [02:57]
Quatre Chansons françaises (1928), for soprano and orchestra - Texts by Victor Hugo and Paul Verlaine:
11. I Nuits de juin. Lento e molto rubato [02:39]
12. II Sagesse. Lento ma non tropo [03:02]
13. III L'Enfance. Animato [04:53]
14. IV Chanson d'automne. Moderato con molto ma sempre colla voce [02:25]
Serenade, Op. 31 (1943), for tenor, horn and string orchestra - Texts by Tennyson, Keats, Blake, Jonson and Cotton:
15. Prologue. Andante [01:04]
16. Pastoral. Lento [03:20]
17. Nocturne. Maestoso [03:31]
18. Elegy. Andante appassionato [03:43]
19. Dirge. Alla marcia grave [03:36]
20. Hymn. Presto e leggiero [02:02]
21. Sonnet. Adagio [03:53]
22. Epilogue. Andante [01:07]
Les Illuminations was written when Rimbaud was barely nineteen. It is a young man's vision of new frontiers. So it was, too, for Britten when he set it. It is a seminal work, for Britten was conclusively proving his own, individual voice through what Auden was to call "mediterraneanising" - breaking away from the conventional view of a "British" composer.
This recording gives Les Illuminations in context with Britten's Quatre Chansons françaises, written when he was barely fourteen. Even at this early age, Britten indicated what was to come. He had been separated from his adored mother and sent to boarding school, but he was well aware that he would find his métier in composition. Already, the theme of lost childhood, which he would repeatedly explore, features. In L'Enfance, perhaps the strongest song in the set, the innocent child's song, with its folksy, almost clumsy, rhythm contrasts with the more sophisticated strings and winds that evoke the mother's death.
This recording also gives insights into Britten's use of poetry. The early songs are two poems each of Hugo and Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud's partner in scandal in London. Britten already has an ear for the French idiom. Rimbaud's poetry is revolutionary, with its idiosyncratic rhythms and opaque imagery. If it was set to any extent before Britten, I do not know, for it really only reached a mass audience in the early twentieth century. Britten seems to have appreciated that its complex, inexplicit meanings could be expressed in music. So well integrated is his music with his choice of poems that it is startling how avant-garde the work still sounds. Five years later, Britten returns to the classic English poets, Blake, Keats, Jonson and Tennyson, but his settings in the Serenade are utterly unique, transcending the medium of poetry alone.
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Felicity Lott - Scottish National Orchestra - Bryden Thomson / Britten - Les Illuminations
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