Didier Bourgeois

As a young composer immersed in the new bourgeois scene in Vienna, Schubert was perfectly positioned to write for the many salons that had opened in the city. The fashionable dances he wrote for them also gave him an avenue for their publication and the selling of scores. These charming gems were not intended for the concert stage but offer a surprising and seemingly spontaneous outpouring of melody and harmonic wit – and even imitations of Tyrolean yodelling. The 12 Écossaises, D. 299 are known to be the first work Schubert composed away from Vienna. Didier Castell-Jacomin employs the 1982 Henle edition based on manuscripts and first editions.

In this new release, Vincent Dumestre’s Le Poème Harmonique once again immerses us in the France of the second half of the 16th century, which witnessed the emergence of new centres of artistic activity. These ‘bourgeois’ societies were initiated by patron princes concerned with building their prestige through the arts and letters just as much as by arms. At the same time, refined circles held by cultivated women enabled them to rub shoulders with the leading poets of the time, as well as musicians sensitive to humanist research, all profiting from a context propitious to the invention of new artistic forms and practices.

Les parents de Blanche s'appellent Michèle et François; ses copains Renaud, Alain, Marc, Pierre, Thierry, Didier, voire Miguel. Amélie aurait-elle un petit coup de mou? On pourrait le croire jusqu'au moment où, au détour d'une phrase, on apprend furtivement le nom de famille de Blanche (Hast, en allemand «précipitation») et de sa copine Christa (Bildung, «formation»)…

Un Diapason d'or en 2001 puis une discographie comparée ont déjà chanté l'aisance, l'humour et les voluptés des solistes et du chœur de Marcus Creed dans l'ultime chef-d'œuvre de Rossini. Retrouvez ce nouveau CD de la collection Les Indispensables de Diapason avec le numéro de juin de votre magazine.