Georges Delerue conducts the film music of Maurice Jaubert

Live recording of a 1986 concert with the Madrid Symphony Orchestra

Release : 09-2003

Scores composed for classic French movies of the thirtees starring Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Arletty, Michèle Morgan, Jules Berry, Jean Renoir, Pierre Brasseur . A production of the Luis Cernuda Fundation from Seville, originally released on the Vinilo label in Spain. This is a premiere on CD. 16-page booklet.

1. LE JOUR SE LÈVE (1939) 16:24

Directed by Marcel Carné

2. L'ATALANTE (1934) 13:00

Directed by Jean Vigo

3. LE PETIT CHAPERON ROUGE (1929) 17:43

Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti

4. UN CARNET DE BAL (1937) 3:25

Directed by Julien Duviver

5. LE QUAI DES BRUMES (1938) 11:02

Directed by Marcel Carné

TT  61:46

Brendon Kelly - Music from the Movies, UK, No 41

This CD will certainly appeal to listeners who like the classics. The concert runs very much like a classical concert. This is probably where I was a little disappointed. You will hear the enthusiastic audience’s applause at the end of each piece. The recording is also a little muddled where you can hear (if you have your headphones on!) some extra noise from either the audience or from instruments being moved during the performance. However, do not let that distract you. Maurice Jaubert composed this superb music and you can clearly hear the influence this man would have on Mr Delerue (who was a genius) and Maurice Jarre (who has written some of the most famous film music of all time.). And to think Maurice Jaubert did all of this over sixty years ago!

Robert Schulslaper - Fanfare, USA, Sept-Oct 2008, Issue 32:1

While Jaubert received a “mostly informal musical training that went against the usual academic path,” talent will out, and the budding film composer was soon working with some of the pre-eminent directors of the day. In his relatively short career, tragically extinguished during WW II, he wrote some 90 works besides the film scores that help preserve his memory. Fontaine is certain that “Jaubert’s legacy can be found in the work of many French film composers, most notably Maurice Jarre,” —and, of course, Georges Delerue. This disc owes its existence to the Luis Cernuda Foundation of Seville, which invited Delerue to conduct a concert of Jaubert’s music in 1986. The music ranges from the passionately austere opening of Le jour se lève, which is given additional force by its staggered, unsettling drumbeats; to Mexican tunes, now happy, now wistful; to the whimsy of Le petit chaperon rouge, expressed in its series of humorous dances (polka, java, waltz, and musette); to the dreamy sentimentality of Un carnet de bal’s “Valse grise”; and, finally, to the vivid “waves,” (musical evocations of the watery variety), unrestrained carnival music, and memorable waltz of Le Quai des brumes. Delerue conducts with obvious affection, and you don’t have to be a film buff to savor Jaubert’s instinctive, cinematically attuned genius. 

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