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557593-94 bk Philidor US 12/1/07 16:27 Page 12 PHILIDOR Carmen Sæculare Overtures Cangemi • Gubisch • Litaker • Abete • Coro della Radio Svizzera Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana • Jean-Claude Malgoire Prague Chamber Orchestra • Christian Benda 2 CDs 8.557593-94 12 557593-94 bk Philidor US 12/1/07 16:27 Page 2 François-André Danican Jean Claude Malgoire PHILIDOR Jean Claude Malgoire began his musical studies in his native Avignon. (1726-1795) At the Paris Conservatoire he took first prizes in oboe and in chamber Carmen Sæculare music, embarking on a brilliant career as an instrumentalist at the age of twenty, crowned by the first prize in 1968 in the Geneva International Competition. His interest in contemporary music brought CD 1 54:42 CD 2 55:16 a recording of music by Holliger, Castiglioni and Shinohara and in 1972 Bruno Maderna chose him as a principal in the Ensemble Simphonie No. 27 in G major Pars Quarta Européen de Musique contemporaine. He was subsquently appointed (Ouverture: Le maréchal ferrant) 1 Phœbe silvarumque potens Diana by Charles Munch as cor anglais soloist in the Orchestre de Paris. At 1 Allegro 5:48 (soprano, mezzo-soprano and chorus) 2:40 the same time he developed his interests as a conductor and 2 Andante con spirito 3:43 2 Alme Sol, curru nitido diem (bass and chorus) 2:58 musicologist, with his first opera recordings in 1975 paving the way 3 Presto 3:12 3 Rite maturos aperire partus (soprano) 3:47 for engagements in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Covent Garden in 4 Certus undenos decies per annos (chorus) 3:00 London, the Paris Opéra Garnier, Karlsruhe, Palermo, and the Teatro Real in Madrid. He has more than 140 Carmen Sæculare 5 Vosque veraces cecinisse, Parcæ (bass) 3:08 recordings to his credit, many of them of works recorded for the first time. Much of this has been brought about with 6 Fertilis frugum pecorisque Tellus the orchestra of the Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, founded in 1966, with which he has given more than two 4 Ouverture 4:31 (soprano, mezzo-soprano and chorus) 3:10 thousand concerts throughout the world. As the head of the Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing since 1981, he has 5 Prologus: Odi profanum vulgus (tenor) 1:18 7 Conditio mitis placidusque (soloists and chorus) 2:29 conducted operas that have twice won the prize for best opera production of the year, in 1983 with L’incoronazione 8 Roma si vestrum est opus (tenor) 1:26 di Poppea and in 1995 for the Mozart/Da Ponte trilogy Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte. In Prima Pars 9 Di probos mores docili iuventæ (tenor) 3:34 addition to his interest in the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, he is one of the few conductors to 6 Spiritum Phœbus mihi (tenor) 2:00 0 Quæque vos bobus veneratur albis have explored repertoire ranging from the eleventh to the twentieth centuries. In Europe he has appeared with 7 Deliæ tutela Deæ fugaces (tenor and chorus) 0:53 (bass and chorus) 3:30 orchestras including the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orchestre de Paris, the 8 Nupta iam dices (tenor and chorus) 2:25 ! Iam mari terraque manus potentes (tenor) 0:39 Orchestre National d’Île de France, and the Dresden and Kraków Philharmonic Orchestras. @ Iam Fides et Pax et Honos Pudorque 1:21 Seconda Pars # Augur et fulgente decorus arcu (mezzo-soprano) 2:34 9 Dive, quem proles Niobea magnæ (chorus) 5:03 $ Quæque Aventinum tenet Algidumque (soloists) 2:20 0 Ceteris maior, tibi miles impar (bass) 1:00 % Hæc Iovem sentire Deosque cunctos ! Ille, mordaci velu icta ferro (bass and chorus) 3:54 (soloists and chorus) 1:47 @ Ni tuis flexus Venerisque gratæ (soprano) 4:39 # Doctor argutæ fidicen Thaliæ (chorus) 3:28 ^ Le sorcier: Ouverture in G major 8:54 Tertia Pars & Tom Jones: Ouverture in B flat major 7:58 $ Dianam teneræ dicite virgines (soprano and mezzo-soprano) 5:14 % Vos lætam fluviis et nemorum coma (tenor and chorus) 4:27 ^ Hic bellum lacrimosum (soloists and chorus) 3:05 8.557593-94 2 11 8.557593-94 557593-94 bk Philidor US 12/1/07 16:27 Page 10 Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana François-André Danican Philidor (1726-1795) Carmen Sæculare The Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana (OSI) has been in existence under this name since 1991, being previously known as the Orchestra of Italian Swiss Radio and Television (Orchestra RTSI), to underline its development within The name Philidor, by which members of the family Philidor began to pay more attention to the game of the structure of Italian Swiss Radio and Television. The first orchestra was officially founded in 1935 with 35 became known, stemmed from the great-grandfather of chess, a pastime among older musicians at Versailles. players, based on an earlier ensemble established in 1933 with the Radio della Svizzera Italiana. The first resident François-André Danican Philidor, Michel Danican, an At this he acquired considerable ability, instructed by director was Leopoldo Casella (1935-68), succeeded in 1938 by Otmar Nussio, who broadened the repertoire, oboist in the service of King Louis XIII, who compared M. de Kermur, Sire de Légal, a leading player of the particularly in regard to contemporary music, with the support of Edwin Loehrer, chorus-master to RSI from 1937 his skill in playing to that of the famous contemporary time in France, whom he was eventually able to defeat. to 1981. Marc Andreae was resident conductor from 1969 to 1990, a period in which particular emphasis was placed Italian oboist Filidori. The name ‘Danican’ was a His chess opponents included Voltaire and Rousseau, on contemporary music and the work of conteporary Swiss composers. Nicholas Carthy served as resident French version of the Scottish ‘Duncan’, an indication and he came to know other leading figures of the French conductor from 1993 to 1996, followed by Alain Lombard from 1999 to the present, while guest conductors have of the earlier origins of the family. Michel Danican’s intellectual establishment, with frequent meetings at the included Serge Baudo from 1997 to 1999. The orchestra has played an important part in the creation and son Jean, the grandfather of François-André, enjoyed a Café de la Régence. A concert tour to The Netherlands development of the Settimane Musicali of Ascona (from 1946), the Concerti di Lugano (1953-1976) and the career as an oboist and composer, serving in the first in 1745 with Geminiani and Lanza was interrupted by Primavera Concertistica di Lugano (from 1982), now known as the Lugano Festival. The orchestra has worked with capacity in the Royal Musketeers and then as a player of the death of the latter’s young daughter, a distinguished composers, including Pietro Mascagni, Igor Stravinsky, Paul Hindemith, Luciano Berio, Arthur the crumhorn and tromba marina in the Grande Ecurie. harpsichordist, leaving Philidor stranded there for a Honegger and Richard Strauss, and conductors including Ernest Ansermet, Leopold Stokowsky, Eugène Ormandy, From 1659 he was oboiste et fifre de chambre in the time, keeping himself as best he could by playing and Sergiu Celibidache, Hermann Scherchen, Wolfgang Sawallisch, and Riccardo Chailly. It has made a large number same royal establishment. His son André, father of teaching chess. This was followed by a visit to England, of recordings both for broadcasting and for commercial release. Concert activities include regular appearances at François-André, also served as a player of the crumhorn arranged through English officers of his acquaintance. home and in the Lucerne, Montreux, and Stresa Festivals, in addition to performances in Vienna, Amsterdam, and tromba marina in the Grande Ecurie, and from 1667 In 1747 he began to play at Slaughter’s coffee-house in Milan, Salzburg, Prague, Genoa, Turin and many other places. to 1677 was an oboist in the Royal Musketeers. He London, defeating some of England’s principal players. played in the first performance of Molière’s Le The following year he was back again in The bourgeois gentilhomme in 1670, and through Lully Netherlands, and while staying at Aachen wrote his became a member of the Académie royale de musique. L’analyse des échecs, later revised as L’analyse du jeu He served in other capacities in the Grande Ecurie and is des échecs. An English version was published in listed as playing the flute and bass crumhorn in the London in 1749, with a distinguished list of subscribers, Chapel Royal. In 1683 he was appointed garde de la including the Duke of Cumberland. Philidor was now bibliothèque du roi and played an important part in the established as the leading player of his time. establishment of the royal music library and the Urged by his friend Diderot, in 1754 Philidor collections of other members of the royal family and returned to France and to music, although a motet aristocracy. From 1690 to 1716 he served as a player of proved unacceptable to the court. This failure induced the crumhorn and the oboe in the Petits violons de la him, on the advice of Rameau, to turn his attention to chambre du roi. the theatre, winning his first significant success with the Born at Dreux in 1726, his elderly father’s first son comic opera Blaise le savetier (Blaise the Cobbler) in by his young second wife, François-André Danican was, 1759. This was the start of a career that for many years as a boy, a chorister in the Chapelle Royale at brought considerable success, while he was, at the same Versailles, where he was taught by Campra, the maître time, able to continue his parallel career as a chess de chapelle.