Henri Sauguet(1901-89): a Catalogue of the Orchestral Music

[Dundonnell]

HENRI SAUGUET: A CATALOGUE OF THE ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

1923/24:"Danse des Matelots" for orchestra: 2 minutes
1924:      Ballet "Les roses"   (lost)
1927:      Ballet "La Chatte": 22 minutes
1928:      Ballet "David": 40 minutes
1929:      Ballet-Sketch "La Nuit": 12 minutes   +  (Canadian CBC cd)
1932:      "Enigme" for soprano and orchestra
1933:      Ballet "Fastes"
1934:      Piano Concerto No.1: 20 minutes
1940-45:Symphony No.1 "Expiatoire": 53 minutes    +  (Naxos cd)
1941:      Ballet "La cigale et la fourmi"    +  (Canadian CBC cd)
                Ballet "Cartes postales"
1943:      Ballet "Les Mirages": 35 minutes
1944:      Ballet "Les Forains": 25 minutes    +   (Canadian CBC and EMI cds)
1947/48:Piano Concerto No.2 "Reverie concertante"
1948:      "Stele symphonique" for orchestra
                Ballet "La rencontre" (Oedipus and the Sphinx")   (Ballet Suite: 22 minutes  *)
1949:      "Bocages": Three Caprices for harp and wind instruments
1949/51:Symphony No.2 "Alegoriqiue" ("Les saisons") for soprano, chorus and orchestra: 87 minutes    +  (Naxos cd)
1950:      Symphonic Suite "Tableaux de Paris"       +  (EMI cd)
1951:      "La cornette" for baritone and orchestra
                Ballet "Pas de deux classique"  (lost)
                Cantata "Le Cornette: Chanson d'amour et de mort"
1952:      Ballet "Le cardinal aux chats"
                Ballet "Tresor et magie"  (lost)
                Ballet "Cordelia"
1953:     "Concerto d'Orphee" for Violin and Orchestra: 23 minutes   + (Music and Arts cd)
1954:      Symphonic Movement "Les Trois Lys"
1955:      Symphony No.3 "I.N.R.": 38 minutes   + (Naxos cd)
1956:      Ballet "Le Cameleopard"
1957/58:Ballet "Les cinq etages"
1957/59:Ballet "La Dame aux Camelias"
1958:      Ballet "la Solitude"
1960:      Ballet "L'as de couer"
                Cantata "L'oiseau a vu tout cela" for baritone and strings: 18 minutes    +  (Arion cd)
1961/63:Piano Concerto No.3 "Concert des Mondes soutterains": 30 minutes
1963:      "Melodie Concertante" for Cello and Orchestra    +   (Russian Disc cd)
1964:      "Deux mouvements d'archets a la memoire de Paul Gilson" for strings
                Ballet "Paris"
1965:      Ballet "Le prince et le mendiant"
1966:     "Symphonie des marches"
1967:     Oratorio "Chant pour une ville meurtrie" for baritone, chorus and orchestra
1970:     "Garden Concerto" for Harmonic and Orchestra: 18 minutes  + (Arion cd)
1971:      Symphony No.4 "Du Troisieme Age": 37 minutes   +  (Naxos cd)
1976:      Suite "Alentours saxophonique" for alto saxophone, winds and piano
1979:     "Reflets sur feuilles" for harp, piano, percussion and orchestra
1986:     "Septembre" ("Nocturne Symphonique") for orchestra: 9 minutes

[eschiss1]

The Melodie concertante used to be on a Russian Disc CD (Rostropovich - reissue I believe of the LP recording that was coupled with Vlasov's 1st concerto, if I remember from a review. CD coupled with Britten's cello symphony when it was available, I see. I see a Gramophone review online, too, of a LP release of the Sauguet with one of Tishchenko's cello concertos - I'm guessing his 2nd since the first needed reconstruction.)

[alberto]

I treasure a lot a Canadian CBC Cd (Daniel Swift cond., CBC Vancouver Orch., 1996 release) containing
the marvellous 1944 Les Forains, the 1929 La Nuit and the 1941 La Cigale et la Fourmi (coupled to rare and short Ropatrz, Lalo and Milhaud).
The Plasson Emi Les Forains+Tableaux de Paris (I own as Lp) has been transferred to Cd in a Plasson mega-box of about ...55-60 Cds.
The Sauguet Le Forains recording (I own the Lp Chante du Monde) I don't know if was ever transferred to Cd.