Celeste-Marie Roy - Rhapsodies - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

Over the last 15 years, Jordi Savall has been exploring the links between Western and Eastern repertoires because he regards this work as a way to develop a better mutual understanding. On Oriente Lux, Hespèrion XXI plays alongside the ensemble Orpheus 21, created by him in the wake of the recent migrant crisis to welcome musicians from countries stricken by war, hunger or disasters to draw attention to the dignity shared of all humankind. The idea - prevailing during the Middle Ages - of a light coming from the East, Oriente Lux, is actualized on this recording with the fruitful encounter of repertoires from Syria, Bangladesh, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, Greece, Lebanon, Irak, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey. Details 1. Sadher Lau Banailo More Boiragi 2. La Rosa Enflorece 3. Mîrkut 4. Ya Ghazaly 5. Canarios 6. Seferdîn 7. Al-Bint El Shalabiyya 8. Longa Riad 9. Yâ Habîbî 10. 'Al Maya, 'Al Maya 11. El Rey Nimrod 12. Sabiha 13. As for Tall 14. Lamounî 15. Laïli DJÂN 16. Hal Asmar 17. Ya Mariam El Bekr 18. Kevok 19. Apo Xeno Meros 20. 'Al Maya, 'Al Maya (Bis)

With the present , Pascal Rophé and his Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire pay tribute to their great countryman, Claude Debussy - but not with the standard orchestral fare. Debussy Orchestrated paints a portrait of a light-hearted composer, seen through the eyes of two of his collaborators, Henri Büsser and André Caplet, who transferred the works recorded here from the keyboard to the orchestra. In Petite Suite, composed for piano four hands in 1899, Debussy makes allusions to Fêtes galantes by Paul Verlaine, the poet who so often inspired him. Büsser's orchestration of this light and pleasant suite was made in 1907, and obviously pleased Debussy, as he later entrusted him with making an orchestral version of Printemps. As for Children's Corner and La Boîte à joujoux, it is probably fair to say that the composer's main inspiration was his own daughter, Claude-Emma, born in 1905. Both works are dedicated to her, and it is easy to imagine that some of the characters that appear in Children's Corner had their counterparts among her toys. Letting toys come alive in a ballet was the idea that illustrator André Hellé a few years later presented to Debussy with La Boîte à joujoux. The piano version of the piece was published, with Hellé's illustrations, in time for Christmas in 1913 and Debussy began orchestrating it the following year, but died before he could complete the task. His friend André Caplet - who had already orchestrated Children's Corner - took over and the ballet was finally premièred in December 1919.

Details 1. Prelude Lento - Allegro Maestoso - Tempo I - Nadège Rochat/Wurttembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen 2. Intermezzo Andantino Con Moto - Allegro Presto - Andantino (Tempo I) - Allegro Presto - Nadège Rochat/Wurttembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen 3. Introduction Andante - Allegro Vivace - Nadège Rochat/Wurttembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen 4. Introduction - Wurttembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen 5. Aubade - Wurttembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen 6. Andantino - Wurttembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen 7. Finale - Wurttembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen 8. Scherzo in D minor - Wurttembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen 9. Nonchalant - Nadège Rochat/Wurttembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen 10. Grave - Nadège Rochat/Wurttembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen 11. Joyeux - Nadège Rochat/Wurttembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen