{"product_id":"sabata-debussy-jeux-poeme-danse-1947-pasc046","title":"SABATA Debussy: Jeux - Poème Dansé (1947) - PASC046","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eDEBUSSY \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eJeux - Poème Dansé\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRec\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eorded in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003e1947\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eDuration\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003e: 17:21\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eOrchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eConductor: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eVittorio de Sabata\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fBill Rosen's Review578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fNever was I more aware of the human yearning below the shifting textures of Jeux578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003eJeux\nis Debussy's final and most neglected orchestral masterpiece. One\nreason for the neglect is that this Mt. Everest of musical abstraction\nwas actually presented as a Diaghilev ballet (1913) with a trivial wisp\nof a story involving two female tennis players vying for the same male,\nwhere the fall of the tennis balls signal the key points in the\nstructure. The second reason is that this music is profoundly new, a far\nadvance beyond and Images. It is a subtle, interconnected web of\nmusical tissue with motives appearing, developing and transforming\nwithout borders or boundaries, always coruscatingly beautiful. Very few\nperformances have been able to maintain this constant motion and slowly\ngrowing tension without premature anticlimax or without getting beached\nin a tensionless sandbar.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003eIn my\nopinion, only three conductors have really gotten Jeux right: Haitink\n(Philips), Boulez (DG) and now De Sabata (Pristine Audio). If anything\nDe Sabata brings an added passion to Jeux that makes it so very much\nmore sensual and less evanescent without losing any of the clarity of\nBoulez or the poise of Haitink. Never was I more aware of the human\nyearning below the shifting textures of Jeux. The urgency of De Sabata's\nlast three minutes followed by the final evaporation cannot be matched\nby the other two.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003eThe\nsonic work on the 1947 pressings of Jeux will surely rank with Pristine\nAudio's finest work. The sweetness of the strings, the clarity of the\nwoodwinds, the fullness of the bass, and the lack of a hint of harshness\nor glassiness banishes any desire for stereo.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC046.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eDebussy's Jeux, written in 1912 as a short ballet for Diaghilev, suffered the unfortunate fate of being first staged just two weeks prior to Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, one of the most notorious première 'event's in the history of classical music. Given its dense structure, lack of repetitions and forward-looking use of harmony, it is perhaps a piece which rewards repeated listening, especially in an audience unused to such music. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eAlas, Jeux quietly disappeared, and was not really given much attention again until this recording, its premiere, was made in 1947, and received the coveted double-stars of The Record Guide in 1952. Its conductor, the brilliant de Sabata, regarded this as the favourite of his relatively few recordings - he was far happier in the concert hall than the studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eMichael Steinberg's excellent program notes on the genesis of Jeux for the San Francisco Symphony website are particularly illuminating, especially as they explain how the original ideas sketched by Nijinsky at a lunch at the Savoy Hotel, London (including the rejected ideas that the dancers would be three male lovers, and that a plane would crash in the background), were developed into the synopsis given to the audience on the opening night:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width: 90%;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"8\" border=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe scene is a garden at dusk; a tennis ball has been lost; a boy and two girls are searching for it. The artificial light of the large electric lamps shedding fantastic rays about them suggests the idea of childish games: they play hide and seek, they try to catch one another, they quarrel, they sulk without cause. The night is warm, the sky is bathed in pale light; they embrace. But the spell is broken by another tennis ball thrown in mischievously by an unknown hand. Surprised and alarmed, the boy and girls disappear into the nocturnal depths of the garden.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTechnical notes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eI restored this music from a pair of near-mint shellac discs, and it seems to me that this is one of the most technically advanced 78rpm recordings ever made. It would be some 20 months after this recording was made that HMV started to use tape technology, so here we have work from the very final days of regular direct-to-disc recording at 78rpm. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eAlthough Decca were keen to trumpet their ffrr system in their advertising and on labels, beginning about a year after they'd started using it in 1945, HMV stayed quiet about similar advances they'd made at about the same time, presumeably so as not to harm sales of older recordings. (In a similar, apparently backward-looking move, they came into the LP era some two years after their main competitors, despite the obvious advantages of the new medium.) \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eFrom a technical perspective, there is no reason why a wide-grooved disc rotating at a relatively high speed should not be able to deliver superior results to that of a microgroove record turning far more slowly. It is mainly the medium of shellac itself, and its high surface noise, which causes the greatest problems with material such as this. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCoupled with the short playing time of 78s and their demise became inevitable in the face of tape and vinyl, but there's little doubt in my mind of the technical superiority 0f many aspects of this recording over a good deal of early vinyl material. Here we have a frequency range that stretches right up to 20kHz, very little discernable wow and flutter, and after noise reduction processing, an incredible signal to noise ratio of almost 60dB!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eIronically much of this stems from a technique of cutting the master recording directly, without the possibility of edits or the sonic degradation of analogue dubs and copying, to which some record companies would return in the latter days of the LP as part of a drive to improve sound quality on vinyl...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eBecause of the exceptional quality of this recording we have chosen to encode our MP3 files at the same ultra-high resolution used for our vinyl transfers to ensure optimum reproduction.\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eDEBUSSY \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eJeux - 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