Portrait Georges Bizet - Interview with Cyrille Dubois, Mélissa Petit and David Reiland

Georges BIZET (1838-1875)
Djamileh, Vasco de Gama, Le Retour de Virginie, Clovis et Clotilde, symphonic and choral music, musique for piano and mélodies

‘Portraits’ series | volume 6 | 2025 | Bru Zane Label
Bilingual CD-book in French and English
4 CDs / book - 159 pages

ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE LYON – Ben Glassberg
LE CONCERT DE LA LOGE – Julien Chauvin
LES SIÈCLES – François-Xavier Roth
ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE METZ GRAND EST – David Reiland
FLEMISH RADIO CHOIR – CHŒUR DE L’OPÉRA DE LILLE

Singers: Huw Montague Rendall, Karina Gauvin, Cyrille Dubois, Mélissa Petit, Adèle Charvet, Julien Dran, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Patrick Bolleire, Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur, Thomas Dolié, Isabelle Druet, Sahy Ratia, Philippe-Nicolas Martin

Pianists: Nathanaël Gouin, Célia Oneto Bensaid, Florian Caroubi, Anthony Romaniuk

Actor: Maxime Le Gall

No, Georges Bizet was not only the composer of Carmen, the French opera most frequently performed around the world. In a career spanning less than twenty years, he produced works in every genre: orchestral music, piano pieces, cantatas, operas, songs and more besides.

He showed an early mastery of orchestration, and was soon able to give free rein to his taste for orientalism and folklore. This portrait offers a chance to discover works that were never performed during his lifetime, indeed some which had to wait until 2024 for their premiere. Of particular note is the ‘ode-symphony’ Vasco de Gama, which illustrates the Romantic taste for vast historical epics, and Le Retour de Virginie, a cantata for the Prix de Rome presented by the composer to his teacher in 1855.

Piano music and mélodies remind us that Bizet was also a sought-after salon composer, whose talent posterity has consecrated in songs like La Coccinelle and Adieux de l’hôtesse arabe.

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