Ibert, a winner of the Prix de Rome at the Paris Conservatoire, was for a number of years director of the French Academy in Rome. Versatile and prolific, he wrote operas, ballets and music for the theatre, cinema and radio in addition to vocal and instrumental works, all equally beautifully crafted, with particularly idiomatic handling of wind instruments. He died in Paris in 1962.
Orchestral and Film Music
The Flute Concerto by Ibert, written in 1934, is a useful addition to solo repertoire for an instrument whose possibilities the composer well understood, as he did the saxophone in his Concertino for that instrument, composed in the following year. The orchestral music of Ibert includes suites and extracts from his theatre music, among which the scores written for A Midsummer Night’s Dream and for the Orson Welles film of Macbeth should be mentioned. His Divertissement for chamber orchestra was derived from incidental music for Un Chapeau de paille d’Italie (‘An Italian Straw Hat’). Other film music includes scores written for Pabst’s Don Quichotte, and Duvivier’s Golgotha. His La Ballade de la geôle de Reading (‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’), after Oscar Wilde, was later adapted as a ballet, a medium for which his Diane de Poitiers was written.
Chamber and Piano Music
The most popular of Ibert’s works for smaller groups must be the Entracte for flute or violin, with harpsichord or guitar, followed by the Interludes for flute, violin and harp, from Lifar’s Le Burlador, and Histoires, taken from his own piano work of that name.
HAE WON CHANG 张惠园
Chang Hae-Won is one of the leading pianists and piano professors in Korea. She obtained B.A. and M.A. at the Piano Department College of Music at Ewha Womans University in Seoul. She continued her piano studies at the Frankfurt State Misikhochschule. She won various prizes, including first prize at the Korean National Piano Competition. Her career as a concert pianist began in 1957, when she played Beethoven’s C minor Piano Concerto with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. Since then she has enjoyed a busy career as a teacher and as a performer in Korea, in other Asian countries, America and Europe, with annual concert tours and engagements at home and abroad. She has appeared as a soloist with major orchestras and in recitals. She has performed as a soloist at numerous music festivals, including the Paris Château de Breteuil Festival, the National Music Festival in Korea and the festival for the opening of the Sejong Cultural Centre and of the Goethe-Institut in Seoul. In 1985 she was acclaimed by the Music Critics’ Circle of Korea as musician of the year. She was also the first Korean to be awarded the Konzertexamen Diploma.
Tracks:
Jacques Ibert (1890-1962) 雅克·弗朗索瓦·安东·伊贝尔
1. Scherzetto 02:50 小谐谑曲
2. Piece romantique 05:55 浪漫小品
3. Toccata sur le nom d'Albert Roussel 01:00 阿尔伯特·鲁塞尔(1869-1937)风格的托卡塔
4. L'espiegle au village de Lilliput (The Prankster in the Village of Lilliput) 01:00
5. Francise: 'Guitarre' pour le piano 02:37 弗朗西斯: 钢琴上的“吉他”曲
6. Le vent dans les ruines (The Wind over the Ruins) 02:58 废墟上的风
Petite Suite en quinze images (Little Suite in Fifteen Pictures) 十五个场景的小组曲
7. Prelude 01:46 前奏曲
8. Ronde 00:43 回旋曲
9. Le gai vigneron (The Gay Wine - Grower) 00:49 欢快的酿酒师
10. Berceuse aux etoiles (Lullaby under the Stars) 01:44 星空下的摇篮曲
11. Le cavalier Sans - Souci (Carefree Knight) 00:59 逍遥骑士
12. Parade 01:19 游行
13. La promenade en traineau (Sleigh Ride) 00:58 滑雪橇
14. Romance 01:18 浪漫曲
15. Quadrille 00:37 四对方舞
16. Serenade sur I'eau (Serenade on the Water) 01:06 水上小夜曲
17. La machine a coudre (The Sewing Machine) 00:34 缝纫机
18. L'Adieu 02:09 永别
19. Les crocus (The Crocus) 00:58 红番花
20. Premier bal (First Ball) 00:45 首舞
21. Danse du cocher (Cabman's Dance) 00:39 马车夫之舞
Histoires (Stories) 故事集
22. La meneuse de tortues d'or (The Leader of the Golden Tortoises) 03:41 金乌龟的首领
23. Le petit ane blanc (The Little White Donkey) 02:03 小白驴
24. Le vieux mendiant (The Old Beggar) 03:03 老乞丐
25. A Giddy Girl 01:24 轻浮女孩
26. Dans la maison triste (In the Sad House) 01:51 悲伤房间内
27. Le palais abandonne (The Abandoned Palace) 02:08 被废弃的宫殿
28. Bajo la mesa (Under the Table) 02:03 桌子下
29. La cage de cristal (The Glass Cage) 01:26 玻璃笼
30. La marchande d'eau fraiche (The Fresh Water Seller) 02:10 卖淡水者
31. Le cortege de Balkis (The Procession of Balkis) 02:01 巴尔基斯的游行队伍
Les rencontres, petite suite en forme de ballet (Encounters, Little Suite in the Form of a Ballet)
偶遇(芭蕾形式的小组曲)
32. Les bouquetieres (The Flower Girls) 03:08 捧花女孩
33. Les creoles (The Creoles) 04:04 克里奥尔人
34. Les mignardes (The Precious Girls) 03:01 可爱女孩
35. Les bergeres (The Shepherdesses) 03:39 牧羊女
36. Les bavardes (The Chatterboxes) 02:19 多话的人 / 喋喋不休的人