Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien / Cambreling, SWR Symphony Baden-Baden and Freiburg

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May 10, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Claude Debussy
    • PERFORMER
      Swr Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden Und Freiburg, Collegium Vocale Gent, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Martin M
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 10, 2024
    • UPC
      747313914982
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SWR19149CD
    • LABEL
      SWR
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Act I: La cour de lys: Prelude: Frère, que sera-t-il le monde (Twins)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

      Performer: Dagmar Pecková, Nathalie Stutzmann

      Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling

    2. Act I: La cour de lys: Ist sterben so schön? (Narrator)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Dörte Lyssewski

    3. Act I: Mouvement de Prélude: Sébastien, Sébastien, Sébastien (Chorus)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

      Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling

    4. Act I: La cour de lys: Der Name Sebastianus kommt von sequens (Narrator)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Dörte Lyssewski

    5. Act I: La cour de lys: Assez animé: Soufflez de près (Saint, Chorus Seraphicus)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

      Performer: Dörte Lyssewski

      Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling

    6. Act II: La chambre magique: Prélude

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

      Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling

    7. Act II: La chambre magique: Der Präfekt der Stadt Rom (Narrator)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Dörte Lyssewski

    8. Act II: La chambre magique: Je fauchais l'epi de froment (Erigone)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

      Performer: Heidi Grant Murphy

      Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling

    9. Act II: La chambre magique: Der Sohn des Präfekten (Narrator)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Dörte Lyssewski

    10. Act II: La chambre magique: Qui pleure mon Enfant si doux (Vox coelestis)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

      Performer: Heidi Grant Murphy

      Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling

    11. Act III: Le concile des faux dieux: Prélude

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

      Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling

    12. Act III: Le concile des faux dieux: Da klagten die Richter (Narrator)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Dörte Lyssewski

    13. Act III: Le concile des faux dieux: Péan, Lyre-d'or, Arc d'argent (Musicians)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

      Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling

    14. Act III: Sebastian, dein Gott ist eifersüchtig (Narrator)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Dörte Lyssewski

    15. Act III: Le concile des faux dieux: Avez-vous vu celui que j'aime (Saint, Chorus, Vox sola)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

      Performer: Dörte Lyssewski, Heidi Grant Murphy

      Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling

    16. Act III: Le concile des faux dieux: Adonis, du bist wie eine menschliche Blume (Narrator)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Dörte Lyssewski

    17. Act III: Le concile des faux dieux: Cessez, o pleureues! (Vox sola, Chorus)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

      Performer: Heidi Grant Murphy

      Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling

    18. Act III: Le concile des faux dieux: Io! Io! Adoniastes (Chorus)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

      Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling

    19. Act III: Le concile des faux dieux: Il est mort, le bel Adonis! (Chorus Syriacus)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

      Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling

    20. Act III: Le concile des faux dieux: Es ist unbegreiflich (Narrator)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Dörte Lyssewski

    21. Act IV: Le Laurier blessé: Prélude

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

      Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling

    22. Act IV: Le Laurier blessé: Siebzehn Pfeile sind in unsern Köchern (Narrator)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Dörte Lyssewski

    23. Act IV: Le Laurier blessé: Très modéré

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

      Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling

    24. Act IV: Le Laurier blessé: Die Heiligen bezwangen (Narrator)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Dörte Lyssewski

    25. Act IV: Le Laurier blessé: Ah! Helas! Helas! (Chorus Syriacus)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

      Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling

    26. Act V: Le paradis: Interlude

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

      Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling

    27. Act V: Le paradis: Gloire! Sous nos armures flamboyez (Chorus Martyrum, Chorus Virginum, Chorus Apostolorum, Chorus Angelorum, Anima Sebastiani, Chorus Sanctorum Omnium)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

      Performer: Heidi Grant Murphy

      Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling


In 1910, the Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio wrote a play about the martyrdom of St. Sebastian. He enlisted Claude Debussy as the composer and the "Mystère en cinq mansions composé en rhythme français" already premiered in 1911. The text combines and overlaps Christian and pagan traditions, playing with both the flair of antiquity and the fascination of the exotic. The Catholic Church took offense concerning the portrayal of Sebastian, who was played by a female Russian Jew, the dancer Ida Rubinstein, and the audience also reacted hesitantly, so that neither D'Annunzio's play nor Debussy's music to it remained in the repertoire of the concert halls. Debussy himself was very fond of his work and soon put together an orchestral suite, the "Fragments symphoniques", which adapts some of the central numbers of the incidental music for orchestra. Additionally, Désiré-Emile Inghelbrecht created a kind of concert version that radically shortened the text and reduced it to around 15 minutes of recitation in addition to Debussy's music. The same applies to the present recording, which juxtaposes Debussy's original music with texts by the writer Martin Mosebach. These texts do not necessarily reflect the course of D'Annunzio's piece, but rather summarize central aspects of the Sebastian legend, sometimes more directly, sometimes more abstractly.

The present version, a studio recording from 2005, is enriched with (German) text additions by the writer Martin Mosebach, making it thus unique among other recordings of Le Martyre.