L'eventail de Jeanne & Ma mere l'oye Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire & John Axelrod

• 1 Prelude 03:52
• 2 Tableau 1: Danse du rouet et Scene (Dance of the Spinning Wheel and Scene) 03:51
• 3 Tableau 2: Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant (Pavane of Sleeping Beauty) 02:48
• 4 Tableau 3: Les Entretiens de la Belle et de la Bete (Conversations between Beauty and the Beast) 05:25
• 5 Tableau 4: Petit Poucet (Hop-o-my-Thumb) 05:33
• 6 Tableau 5: Laideronnette, imperatrice des Pagodes (Little Ugly, Empress of the Pagodas) 05:05
• 7 Tableau 6: Apotheose (Le Jardin feerique, The Fairy Garden) 04:17
• 8 Fanfare 01:42
• 9 Marche 03:25
• 10 Valse 03:51
• 11 Canarie 02:07
• 12 Bourree 03:26
• 13 Sarabande 03:42
• 14 Polka, Op. 95 02:12
• 15 Pastourelle, FP 45 01:57
• 16 Rondeau 03:38
• 17 Kermesse-Valse 04:56
• Total Runtime 01:01:47

Info for L'eventail de Jeanne & Ma mere l'oye

Ravel’s much-loved Mother Goose Suite vividly portrays familiar fairy tales such as Sleeping Beauty and Hop-o’-my-Thumb, and is heard here in its expanded ballet version with a scene-setting Prélude. 1920s Paris was a hotbed of creative collaboration, and the children’s ballet L’Éventail de Jeanne (Jean’s Fan) brought together composers including members of Les Six to create a joyous mélange of influence and individuality, from Ferroud’s Stravinsky-tinted Marche to Poulenc’s catchy Pastourelle, and from Ravel’s glorious opening Fanfare to Schmitt’s truly grand Carnival Waltz finale. This is the first recording of the complete L’Éventail de Jeanne to be made by a French orchestra.

„Jeanne Dubost, a fashionable Paris hostesses and patron of the arts, gave ten young composers a leaf from her fan with a request to compose music for a ballet. With eventual score was given the title, L’Eventail de Jeanne, and was intended for her young pupils, though in the event it received a stellar premiere at the Paris Opera, and featured the precocious young ballerina, Tourmanova. The composers took their task very seriously and produced ten charming cameos opening with Ravel’s Fanfare and ending with a big Valse scene from Florent Schmitt. In between we have a naughty Valse from Ibert; a gorgeous little Polka from Milhaud, and a gentle Pastourelle from Poulenc. You can almost see the young children dancing to such a glorious score. It is here coupled not with the usual orchestral suite, but the longer complete ballet, Ma Mere L’oye (Mother Goose), which is most welcome, particularly so in John Axelrod’s wonderfully atmospheric and detailed performance where pianissimos are just magically audible. Maybe we always read too much into the nationality of orchestras, but the National des Pays de la Loire has that sound of the French orchestras of yesteryear, before an international quality became the norm. The big question that remains is: ‘where has this disc been hiding since its recording in 2012?’ It is certainly one of the gems in the Naxos catalogue, though surely someone could have come up with the idea of balancing the sound levels between the two works recorded at very differing sessions.“ (David’s Review Corner)

Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire
John Axelrod, conductor

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