Davies: Le Jongleur De Notre Dame/String Quartet

On this CD:

1. String Quartet, in one movement, J. 44
Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Performed by David Alberman, Arcadian Academy, Irvine Arditti, Garth Knox, Rohan de Saram

2. Le Jongleur de Notre Dame, masque for mime-juggler, baritone, instrumental ensemble & children's band, J. 155
Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Performed by Stephen Drury, Stephen Drury, Theodore Mook, Buffalo Chorus Opera Sacra, Michael Pugliese
Conducted by Charles Peltz

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Peter Maxwell Davies has received much deserved attention in recent years as one of England's greatest living composers, with many recordings of his music appearing on various labels. Mode is especially proud to add two previously unrecorded works to Davies' catalog. The String Quartet from 1952 is Davies' earliest published composition written when he was 18; a work which remained unplayed for many years until the Arditti Quartet took it up and performed it for the composer on a special occasion. Yet this is no typical "student" work--it is a whirlwind movement which already looks forward to the style of the composer to come, with dancing cross-rhythms and hints of Bartok, jazz and Indian music (which Davies later wrote a dissertation on). Le Jongleur de Notre Dame of 1978 is from an important period of Davies' work. Written and scored for his special ensemble of that time, The Fires of London, it is a virtuoso theater-piece. The libretto, here by the composer, is based on the French tale by Anatole France about a juggler who performs his act before the Virgin Mary and gains her blessing. In Le Jongleur, the juggler is a mime with musical counterparts. The narrative is carried by The Abbot (a baritone), and other brothers represented by the flute, clarinet and percussion. This cheerfully unpretentious work opens and closes with an Overture and Recessional performed by a children's band, who march in (and out), to great sonic effect, of the church where the recording took place. The Opera Sacra ensemble consists of some of the best American New Music performers, including Stephen Drury (keyboards), Ted Mook (cello), Karen Bentley (violin) and Michael Pugliese (percussion), as well as conductor Charles Peltz. The CD contains liner notes by critic, musicologist and Davies' expert Paul Griffiths.

Davies: Le Jongleur De Notre Dame/String Quartet, Music, Edward Albert, Rohan de Saram, Theodore Mook, Amanda Almon, John Fullam, Kathryn Quimby, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Charles Peltz, Arcadian Academy, Opera Sacra of Buffalo Chorus, K.C. Hasselbeck, Rachel Campagna, Sara Angelino, Susan Royal, Keara Kowal, Ben Wilhelm, Brian Goodman, Michael Pugliese, Philip Benner, Stephen Drury, John Joyce, Martins Innus, Steven Kohn, Garth Knox, David Alberman, Irvine Arditti, Karen Bentley, Chamber, Classical, Classical Composers, Music Theater, Musical Theater, Quartet for Four String Instruments
Davies: Le Jongleur De Notre Dame/String Quartet
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    		Davies: Le Jongleur De Notre Dame/String Quartet

    Manufacturer: Mode
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    QuartetsQuartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
    Maxwell Davies, PeterMaxwell Davies, Peter | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music
    Musical TheaterMusical Theater | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
    ASIN: B000000NZC
    Release Date: 1997-09-16

    Tracks:

    1. String Quartet
    2. Le Jongleur de Notre Dame - Overture
    3. Le Jongleur de Notre Dame - Prologue
    4. Le Jongleur de Notre Dame - Scene 1
    5. Le Jongleur de Notre Dame - Scene 2
    6. Le Jongleur de Notre Dame - Link Music
    7. Le Jongleur de Notre Dame - Scene 3
    8. Le Jongleur de Notre Dame - Scene 4
    9. Le Jongleur de Notre Dame - Recessional

    Album Description

    Peter Maxwell Davies has received much deserved attention in recent years as one of England's greatest living composers, with many recordings of his music appearing on various labels. Mode is especially proud to add two previously unrecorded works to Davies' catalog. The String Quartet from 1952 is Davies' earliest published composition written when he was 18; a work which remained unplayed for many years until the Arditti Quartet took it up and performed it for the composer on a special occasion. Yet this is no typical "student" work--it is a whirlwind movement which already looks forward to the style of the composer to come, with dancing cross-rhythms and hints of Bartok, jazz and Indian music (which Davies later wrote a dissertation on). Le Jongleur de Notre Dame of 1978 is from an important period of Davies' work. Written and scored for his special ensemble of that time, The Fires of London, it is a virtuoso theater-piece. The libretto, here by the composer, is based on the French tale by Anatole France about a juggler who performs his act before the Virgin Mary and gains her blessing. In Le Jongleur, the juggler is a mime with musical counterparts. The narrative is carried by The Abbot (a baritone), and other brothers represented by the flute, clarinet and percussion. This cheerfully unpretentious work opens and closes with an Overture and Recessional performed by a children's band, who march in (and out), to great sonic effect, of the church where the recording took place. The Opera Sacra ensemble consists of some of the best American New Music performers, including Stephen Drury (keyboards), Ted Mook (cello), Karen Bentley (violin) and Michael Pugliese (percussion), as well as conductor Charles Peltz. The CD contains liner notes by critic, musicologist and Davies' expert Paul Griffiths.

    Music Track:

    1. E. T. A. Hoffmann: Arlequin Ballet; Overtures
    2. Erna Berger: Operatic and Operetta Arias
    3. España Antigua
    4. Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphonies No. 26 "Lamentatione", No. 52 & No. 53 "L'Impériale"
    5. French Opera Overtures [Import]
    6. Grieg: Symphonic Dances Op64; Funeral March in Memory of Richard Nordraak
    7. Handel: Israel in Egypt [Import]
    8. Haydée Schvartz, piano
    9. Haydn: Sinfonia Concertante; Violin Concertos in C major & G major
    10. Honegger: Symphonies 1, 2, 3

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