Chabrier

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 L'étoile), songs, and piano music. 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; Gustav Mahler called España "the beginnings of modern music" and alluded to the "Dance Villageoise" in the Rondo Burleske movement of his Ninth Symphony. 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.
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Chabrier

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 L'étoile), songs, and piano music. 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...
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ANSERMET at the NBC: Debussy, Ravel, Chabrier, Honegger, Martin (1948-1950) - PASC685
ANSERMET at the NBC: Debussy, Ravel, Chabrier, Honegger, Martin (1948-1950) - PASC685
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DEBUSSY Jeux
DEBUSSY Images: Gigues
DEBUSSY Images: Ibéria
DEBUSSY Six épigraphes antiques (arr. Ansermet)
RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2
RAVEL La Valse
RAVEL Rapsodie Espagnole
CHABRIER España
HONEGGER Horace Victorieux
MARTIN Petite Symphonie concertante

Live broadcast recordings, 1948-50
Total duration: 2hr 32:56

NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Ernest Ansermet

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BEECHAM The ABC Blue Network Concerts, Complete (1945) - PABX016
BEECHAM The ABC Blue Network Concerts, Complete (1945) - PABX016
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NICOLAI The Merry Wives of Windsor: Overture
ELGAR Serenade for Strings
HANDEL-BEECHAM Love in Bath: The Great Elopement
DELIUS The Walk to the Paradise Garden
J. STRAUSS II Voices of Spring
WAGNER Götterdämmerung: Siegfried’s Funeral March
SIBELIUS Pelléas et Mélisande Suite: The Death of Mélisande
MOZART Divertimento, K 131: Adagio
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished.”
TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade in C: Elegie
BERLIOZ Les Troyens: Trojan March
MOZART  Symphony No. 31
HANDEL-BEECHAM  Piano Concerto
CHABRIER España
MOZART The Impressario - Overture
SAINT-SAENS Omphale’s Spinning Wheel
BERLIOZ The Trojans - Royal Hunt and Storm
BERLIOZ Hungarian March

Recorded in 1945

Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
Blue Network Symphony Orchestra

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BEECHAM The ABC Blue Network Concerts, Volume 3 (1945) - PASC477
BEECHAM The ABC Blue Network Concerts, Volume 3 (1945) - PASC477
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MOZART  Symphony No. 31
HANDEL-BEECHAM  Piano Concerto
CHABRIER España
Live broadcast on ABC/Blue Network, 4pm, 21 April 1945
Total duration: 53:13

Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
Blue Network Symphony Orchestra


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HERTZ Complete San Francisco Recordings Volume 4; GABRILOWITSCH complete Detroit SO (1925-28) - PASC233
HERTZ Complete San Francisco Recordings Volume 4; GABRILOWITSCH complete Detroit SO (1925-28) - PASC233
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS Short works and excerpts
Recorded by Victor between 1926 and 1928
Total duration: 65:06

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Alfred Hertz
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Ossip Gabrilowitsch

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MONTEUX The Early Recordings (1929/30) - PASC219
MONTEUX The Early Recordings (1929/30) - PASC219
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STRAVINSKY Le sacre du printemps
RAVEL Le petit poucet (Ma mère l’oye)
COPPOLA Interlude dramatique
CHABRIER Fête Polonaise ( Le Roi malgré lui)
RAVEL La valse
Recorded in 1929 and 1930
Total duration: 62:27

Orchestre Symphonique de Paris
Pierre Monteux, conductor

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MUNCH The Complete New York Philharmonic Recordings (1947/48) - PASC448
MUNCH The Complete New York Philharmonic Recordings (1947/48) - PASC448
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    SAINT-SAËNS: Symphony No. 3, “Organ”
    D’INDY: Symphony on a French Mountain Air
    MOZART    : Piano Concerto No. 21
    MOZART    : Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
    LISZT: Piano Concerto No. 2
    CHABRIER    : Bourée Fantasque

    Studio and Live recordings, 1947/48
    Total duration: 2hr 12:55

    Charles Munch, conductor
    Robert Casadesus,     piano
    Édouard Nies-Berger,     organ
    Walter Hendl     and Arthur Schuller, piano
    Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York

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