Bizet (4-CD BOX SET)
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Bizet (4-CD BOX SET)
Composer: Georges Bizet
Artists: Various
Conductors: Various
Number of Discs: 4
Label: Bru Zane
Release Date: December 20, 2024
Bizet was not only the composer of Carmen, the French opera most frequently performed around the world. In a career spanning less than twenty years, he produced works in every genre: orchestral music, piano pieces, cantatas, operas, songs, and more besides. He showed an early mastery of orchestration and was soon able to give free rein to his taste for orientalism and folklore.
This portrait offers a chance to discover works that were never performed during his lifetime, and indeed some which had to wait until 2024 for their premiere. Of particular note is the “ode-symphony” Vasco de Gama, which illustrates the Romantic taste for vast historical epics, and Le Retour de Virginie, a cantata for the Prix de Rome presented by the composer to his teacher in 1855. Piano music and mélodies remind us that Bizet was also a sought-after salon composer, whose talent posterity has consecrated in songs like “La Coccinelle” and “Les Adieux de l’hôtesse arabe.”
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Music Notes
Most Western music is based on a system of notation that evolved around 1600 out of earlier practices. The starting point for any opera is the full score, which contains all individual voices and instruments arranged in a specific order on the page. The written music—representing the sounds a composer creates in his head—then comes to life performed by singers onstage and played by the orchestra.
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