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Adolphe charles adam - Giselle..

Ochestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Richard Bonynge

Adolphe Charles Adam (24 July 1803 – 3 May 1856) was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer of operas and ballets, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle (1844) and Le Corsaire (1856, his last work), his operas Le postillon de Lonjumeau (1836), Le toréador (1849) and Si j'étais roi (1852, often regarded as his finest work), and his Christmas carol Minuit, chrétiens! (O Holy Night) (1847). Adam was also a noted teacher. Léo Delibes was among his pupils.

Adolphe Adam was born in Paris to Louis Adam (1758-1848), who was also a composer, as well a professor at the Paris Conservatoire. His mother was the daughter of a physician. As a child, Adolphe Adam preferred to improvise music on his own rather than study music seriously. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1821, where he studied organ and harmonium under the celebrated opera composer François-Adrien Boïeldieu. Adam also played the triangle in the orchestra of the Conservatoire; however, he did not win the Grand Prix de Rome and his father did not encourage him to pursue a music career.

By the age of 20, he was writing songs for Paris vaudeville houses and playing in the orchestra at the Gymnasie Dramatique, where he later became chorus master. Like many other French composers, he made a living largely by playing the organ. In 1825, he helped Boïeldieu prepare parts for La dame blanche and made a piano reduction of the score. He was able to travel through Europe with the money he made, and he met Eugène Scribe, with whom he later collaborates, in Geneva. By 1830, he had completed twenty-eight works for the theatre.

Adam is probably best remembered for the ballet Giselle (1841). He wrote several other ballets and 39 operas, including Le postillon de Lonjumeau (1836) and Si j'étais roi (1852).

After quarreling with the director of the Opéra, Adam invested his money and borrowed heavily to open a third opera house in Paris: the Théâtre National (Opèra National). It opened in 1847, but closed because of the Revolution of 1848, leaving Adam with massive debts (Théâtre National later was resurrected under the name of Théâtre Lyrique at the Boulevard du Temple). His efforts to extricate himself from these debts include a brief turn to journalism. From 1849 to his death in Paris, he taught composition at the Paris Conservatoire.

His Christmas carol "Cantique de Noël", often known by its English title "O Holy Night", has become an international favourite and may have been the first music broadcast on radio.

Adolphe Adam is buried there in the Cimetière de Montmartre (Montmartre Cemetery).

Tracklist

Cd1

01. Introduction

02. Les Vendangeurs

03. Entr‚e de Loys

04. Entr‚e de Giselle

05. Retour de la vendange et valse

06. La Chasse

07. ScŠne d'Hilarion

08. Marche des Vignerons

09. Pas seul

10. Pas de deux des jeunes paysans a. Polacca

11. Pas de deux des jeunes paysans b. Andante

12. Pas de deux des jeunes paysans c. Pesante

13. Pas de deux des jeunes paysans d. Allegretto

14. Pas de deux des jeunes paysans e. Allegretto pesante

15. Pas de deux des jeunes paysans f. Valse

16. Pas des vendanges a. Andante

17. Pas des vendanges b. Moderato

18. Pas des vendanges c. Allegro moderato

19. Pas des vendanges d. Allegro un peu lour‚

20. Galop g‚n‚ral

21. Finale du premier acte et scŠne de folie

Cd2

01. Introduction, halte des chausseurs et apparition des feux follets

02. Apparitions de Myrthe et evocation magique

03. Pas des premieres Wilis

04. Apparition de Giselle

05. Entree des paysans

06. Entree du Prince et apparition de Giselle

07. Entree d'Hilarion, scene et fugue des Wilis

08. Grand pas de deux Adage

09. Grand pas de deux Andantino

10. Grand pas de deux Andante

11. Grand pas de deux Valse (interpolated)

12. Finale

13. Lever du soleil et arrivee de la cour

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