Lalo: La Jacquerie

[mikehopf]

  Lalo's rare 4 Act opera La Jacquerie is to be broadcast on Radio 4 Nederlands on Saturday evening.

Stand by your record buttons!

[eschiss1]

I don't think I've heard of Radio 4. Concertzender, yes... will have to look them up.
Does it say who the performers/conductor/orchestra will be? Is it live?

[mikehopf]

RADIO 4 NETHERLANDS
NETHERLANDS 192K MP3  96KMP3   schedule 
  1800
2:00PM Zomeravondconcert: Radio France and Montpellier Festiva
Lalo - La Jacquerie, opera in 4 actes  l
Koor en Orkest van Radio France o.l.v. Patrick Davin, m.m.v.:
Véronique Gens [sopraan, Blanche de Sainte-Croix]; Nora Gubisch [mezzo-sopraan, Jeanne];
Charles Castronovo [tenor, Robert]

Opname van 24 juli, Berlioz Opera, Le Corum, Montpellier (3 hrs.) 


Because you've never heard of it, does not mean that it does not exist!

[Mark Thomas]

Thanks for the heads up, Mike. It's also being broadcast live tonight on Radio France Musique.

[Claude Torres]

I will attend this performance in my home town.
http://www.montpellier-events.com/agenda/La-Jacquerie-Edouard-Lalo


Introduction text in french : http://www.maisondelaradio.fr/article/connaissez-vous-la-jacquerie

C.T.

[eschiss1]

"Because you've never heard of it, does not mean that it does not exist!"

I would be about 10th from last to claim such an inference applies (generally), despite my past-proven omniscience ;^).  Anyhow, thanks!

[mikehopf]

Magnifique!

[Mark Thomas]

I've uploaded a recording of the broadcast. A quick comparison with the vocal score available at IMSLP shows that there is at least one cut - at the start of Act IV. There may be others which I haven't yet picked up, but the purely instrumental preludes and the ballet music are performed. On first hearing it is a strong work, given a typically good quality performance from Montpellier.

[Alan Howe]

Oh, many thanks, Mark.

[eschiss1]

Going to go listen to it soon. Right now listening to a NPO 4 broadcast I downloaded a few months ago (from their own YouTube channel, a concert from last November) (of Bach and earlier music, some of it very much earlier), and wondering how it is that I thought I hadn't heard of the station.
Time was, I could hum the opening to this thread's title composer's first piano trio (the lovely C minor one) (well, no- the opening of the finale) on a moment, or less than that. Now, early senility

[kootenay]

Another broadcast (Same source) October 1 on BBC 3
On Thursday 1 October Katie Derham presents a rare opportunity to hear Édouard Lalo's opera La Jacquerie, recorded at the Montpellier Festival in July.

[Alan Howe]

I listened to some of the opera this afternoon, but I'm sorry to say I gave up for want of a decent tune - there seemed to be an awful lot of declamation to no great purpose. My fault, I expect, but there we are...

[scottevan]

Hearing the work for the first time since its broadcast, I tend to agree about the lack of a decent tune, surprising for a composer who gave us so many.

If you're able to make it to act four, however, the reward is a gorgeous final duet and a fanfare that's an earworm of the first order - and shouldn't surprise anyone familiar with a similar theme in Lalo's "Le roi d'Ys." That final act, by the way, has a setting and situation that's a little too reminiscent of "Les Huguenots."