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Track(s) taken from CDA68193

Plaisir d'amour

composer
Jean-Paul-Égide Martini (1741-1816)
1784
arranger
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
1859; orchestration
arranger
Andrew Manze (b1965)
arrangement with solo viola

Lawrence Power (viola), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
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Recording details: May 2017
Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway
Produced by Andrew Keener
Engineered by Simon Eadon & Gunnar Herleif Nilsen
Release date: May 2018
Total duration: 3 minutes 49 seconds

Cover artwork: Poplars in front of Camerino (2005). Francis Hamel
Private Collection / Bridgeman Images
 

Reviews

‘Power’s mellow tone makes for a poetic reading as the Byronic brooder, his echo of the opening theme as delicate as gossamer … Hyperion doesn’t place the viola too far into the spotlight. Berlioz would have approved’ (Gramophone)

‘Altogether it’s an exciting, intriguing reading, not least because of Lawrence Power’s notably lyrical, eloquent playing; you really feel this is an individual voice’ (BBC Music Magazine)» More
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‘There's absolutely no lack of dramatic impact … the Bergen players rising to those exultant climaxes, and Manze is excellent at delivering the calmer beauty of the 'Serenade' … the balance between solo viola and orchestra is close to ideal, I think, well-integrated, not too soloistic … good sound’ (BBC Record Review)
The setting of Jean-Paul-Égide Martini’s Plaisir d’amour (to a poem by Jean-Pierre Florian, an eighteenth-century author of romantic tales that Berlioz was much addicted to in his childhood) was made in about 1859, for a small orchestra of flutes, clarinets, horns and strings, the voice part here taken by solo viola.

from notes by David Cairns © 2018

La musique de Plaisir d’amour de Jean-Paul-Égide Martini (sur un poème de Jean-Pierre Florian, auteur de contes romantiques du XVIIIe siècle qui passionna Berlioz dans son enfance) fut composée vers 1859 pour un petit orchestre (flûtes, clarinettes, cors et cordes), la partie vocale étant interprétée ici par l’alto solo.

extrait des notes rédigées par David Cairns © 2018
Français: Marie-Stella Pâris

Seine Einrichtung des Liedes Plaisir d’amour von Jean-Paul-Égide Martini (auf ein Gedicht von Jean-Pierre Florian, einem Autor des 18. Jahrhunderts, dessen romantischen Geschichten Berlioz als Kind verfallen gewesen war) schrieb Berlioz 1859 für ein kleines Orchester aus Flöten, Klarinetten, Hörnern und Streichern; die Singstimme übernimmt hier die Solobratsche.

aus dem Begleittext von David Cairns © 2018
Deutsch: Friedrich Sprondel

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