Haroutiun Op. 71

Versuch eines Requiems. Par HARTMANN KARL AMADEUS. Karl Amadeus Hartmann wrote his first symphony in 1935/36. At that time he was still an unknown musician whose works stood no chance of being performed and who could not hope to find encouragement in his native Germany. He had to wait more than ten years for its first performance, which finally took place in Frankfurt in the spring of 1948 under the direction of Winfried Zillig. I was 21 at the time, and the work left an extraordinarily deep impression on me, an impression that marked the beginning of my admiration for Hartmann's music and its very special kind of intellectuality, which struck me as both important and significant: by this I mean its spontaneous and unrefracted immediacy, its honesty and straightforwardness – qualities that extend beyond this composer's works and affect his whole surroundings, including his fellow human beings. All Hartmann's works, moreover, contain an essential element of the art of compostion, namely, an exact correspondence between the artist's insistent need to express himself and the instrumental resources that he chooses. A superficial listener might perhaps fail to notice at first that the huge orchestral apparatus that Hartmann conjures up exactly matches his powerful expressivity and the colourful nature of his rhetoric. There is also the expansiveness and physically charged vitality of the native of southern Germany, a man capable of combining his own sense of inwardness with the beauty of the moment and a feeling of hymnic grandeur. It is a combination that reflects his own south German countryside and that answers a need to communicate sustained by his own unwavering faith in humanity. / Date parution : 1965-11-20/ Répertoire / Voix d'Alto et Orchestre

Composer arranger and Pianist Bizet might have become the most renowned opera composer in France had he not died aged 36 just one month after the premiere of Carmen. He was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire in 1848 and excelled under the tutelage of Zimmerman Halévy and Gounod as well as winning major prizes including the Prix de Rome in 1857. After travels in Italy he settled back in Paris and while struggling to secure commissions for his operas worked as a rehearsal pianist and an arranger of works for piano. His first staged work Les pêcheurs de perles was premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique in 1863 and met with a hostile press but itimpressed Berlioz and the director of the theatre Léon Carvalho would become a firm supporter. More successful were La jolie fille de Perth (1866) his suite from the incidental music to L’Arlésienne (1872) and his Jeux d’enfants for piano duet. In Carmen the scandalous story and Bizet’s depiction of the tragic heroine both outraged and intrigued and the opera ran for 47 performances in its first year and soon spread internationally. The music was a fulfilment of his genius for characterisation that had been seen in glimpses in his earliest works and the abundance of memorable tunes and fine orchestration continues to inspire generations of singers and musicians. Based upon the 1875 published version of the opera—with revisions and restorations by Jean-Claude Hartemann and further editorial overview by David Lloyd-Jones— the edition includes both the original spoken text as well as recitatives by Ernest Guiraud and the following sections: •Scène et pantomime N° 2 (Attention! Chut! Taisons-nous!) •Original Mélodrame after Marche et Choeur des gamins N° 3 (Il y a une jolie fille) •Original version of Carmen’s entrance aria N° 5 (L’Amour est enfant de Bohême) •Original version of N° 6 Scène (Carmen! sur tes pas nous nous pressons tous!) •Chanson et mélodrame N° 9 (Tra la la la … Ce ne sont pas des chansons que je te demande) •Original version of N° 17 Duo

Tonalité : Dorisch -. Par HARTMANN HEINRICH. Kirchenlieder, einstimmig - Langue : Allemand / Hymnes et chorals / Répertoire / Choeur SSATB

begleitet von Bläsern und Schlagzeug. Par HARTMANN KARL AMADEUS. / Répertoire / Alto, Piano, Instruments à Vent et Percussion

Tonalité : F-Dur -. Par HARTMANN HEINRICH. Gattungen: Motetten - Verwendung / Anlässe: L Hautbois und Dank - Langue : Allemand / Mottet / Répertoire / Choeur SSATTB

Tonalité : F-Moll -. Par HARTMANN HEINRICH. Motetten, Psalmen, deutsch - Verwendung / Anlässe: L Hautbois und Dank, Psalmvertonungen - Langue : Allemand / Mottet / Répertoire / Choeur SSATTB

Tonalité : B-Dur -. Par HARTMANN HEINRICH. Gattungen: Motetten, Psalmen, deutsch - Verwendung / Anlässe: L Hautbois und Dank, Psalmvertonungen - Langue : Allemand / Mottet / Répertoire / Choeur SATTB

Tonalité : B-Dur -. Par HARTMANN HEINRICH. Motetten, Psalmen, deutsch - Verwendung / Anlässe: Konfirmation, Firmung, Psalmvertonungen - Langue : Allemand / Mottet / Répertoire / Choeur SSATTB