DCM-CL206

MAURICE JAUBERT

Suite Française, Intermèdes and other orchestral works / Piano pieces

Orchestre de chambre de Nice • Jacques-Francis Manzone / Yoko Sawai, piano

16-page booklet.

Release : April 2, 2009

This DCM Classique release features a remastered version of a 1989 recording produced in France by BNL. The Orchestre de chambre de Nice conducted by Jacques-Francis Manzone performs four orchestral works by the great Maurice Jaubert, a precursor of Maurice Jarre, Georges Delerue. All this classical music program is derived from film scores or has been used subsequently in movies.

Hence director François Truffaut used Suite Française for the soundtrack to the psychological drama The Story of Adèle H, starring Isabelle Adjani as Victor Hugo's obsessed daughter. Intermèdes was also used by Truffaut for another movie of the seventies, the tragic comedy The Man Who Loved Women, starring Charles Denner.

Le Petit Chaperon Rouge (The Little Red Riding Hood), a burlesque suite for twelve instruments, is an exact replica for concert of the original soundtrack to the Albert Cavalcanti’s eponymous movie The waltz Carnet de bal is the main theme from the Julien Duvivier's nostaligic film telling a widow's quest for her very first dance partners.

The two last works can also be found on a previous DCM release, Georges Delerue conducts the Film Music of Maurice Jaubert, The more recent studio version by the Manzone offers a comparable rendition but with a better sound quality. The same remark applies to the versions heard in the Truffaut movies, which were conducted by Patrice Mestral. To complete the program, Canadian Yoko Sawai plays some pîano pieces by Jaubert.