Jean-Louis PASTEUR's channels and videos :
including, from these records :
Les Roses (CD 1, track 3)
Son Flirt (CD 2, track 12)
La Valse Poudrée (CD 2, track 16)
Brillante Etoile (CD 3, track 1)
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revives
THE GOLDEN CENTURY OF FRENCH WALTZES
(1830-1930)
through a set of three compact discs
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© Original illustrations by Chantal Bellon
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- CD1 / Le Tourbillon de la Fête (1830-1880) - Whirling
Feasts / July Monarchy and Second Empire.
- Contents: Skaters' Waltz of course,
by Frenchissimo composer Emile WALDTEUFEL;
Lancers' Quadrille, an Irish dance with a good few
of French blood in it;
but also, brimming over with vitality and melodic
inventiveness, eight wonderful pieces
sunk into oblivion for a hundred years and recorded here
for the first time.
Reference: J.L.P. 9511 /
Duration: 67 minutes / Inside texts
in French.
Please click here for comprehensive and detailed table of contents.
Le Tourbillon de la Fête is also introduced on Youtube. Please click here to see the slideshow : Olivier METRA's Les Roses.
- CD2 / L'Ivresse de l'Idylle (1880-1930) - Elating
Romances / Belle Epoque and Années Folles.
- Contents: Sixteen uncommon pieces pressed
on disc for the first time,
Francis POPY and fifteen other ball and salon composers to be rediscovered : an
excursion into
the refined and sentimental dreamland of Belle Epoque and
Années Folles,
an invitation to succumb to the airy charms of slow and
hesitation waltz.
Reference: J.L.P. 9610 /
Duration: 74 minutes / Inside texts
in French.
Please click here for comprehensive and detailed table of contents.
L'Ivresse de l'Idylle is also introduced on Youtube. Please click here to see the slideshows : Francis POPY's La Valse poudrée or Paul JEANJEAN's Son Flirt.
- CD3 / Froufrous sous les Pampilles - Rustles beneath Crystals.
- Contents: The Belle Epoque hit Fascination
by Fermo MARCHETTI ;
Indiana by Chopin's contemporary Gatien MARCAILHOU ;
but also nine wonderful waltzes by forgotten composers from July Monarchy to Années Folles. The record also hosts the charming Carezza by the Spanish Francophile Enrique GRANADOS, an elegy by Albert JUNGMANN, a German who involved himself in French entertainment music, and two waltzes by Jean-Louis PASTEUR.
The subscription launched for this CD on February 15th 2016 has failed and was closed out on December 31st 2017.
So the CD will not be industrially manufactured nor published but it is nevertheless available in the form of burned prototype.
Reference: J.L.P. 1712 /
Duration: 79 minutes
Please click here for comprehensive and detailed table of contents.
Froufrou sous les Pampilles is also introduced on Youtube. Please click here to see the seven video playlist : Rustles beneath Crystals.
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While an Austrian-German origin for waltz can hardly be argued
about nowadays, the fact is that France did dance waltz a lot.
From the ruling Bourbons' twilight and the decline of minuet
until jazz emerged and Latin rhythms broke up along with
Afro-American ones, the French never ceased to swirl with waltz's
three-beat cadence - both an emanation and an illustration, a
sample and a symbol of the European civilization all along those
hundred years of enthusiasm and expansion.
Alternatively cheerful or mournful, lively or languid, waltzes
were a staple of every festive party, in popular balls as well as
court solemnities, in public parks and kiosks as well as salons,
under the delicate fingers of ethereal pianists as well as
through the blares of vigorous brass and reed village bands.
And yet -! This repertoire which enchanted so many generations
ended up in the oubliettes of history. The French people, being
ready to think that waltzes are a strictly Viennese item, has
retained nothing from the hundreds of composers who enlivened
French festivites during a full century. The very rare survivors
of this mnemonic wreck owe their survival to their being of bold
enough temper to cross the English channel or the Atlantic or the
river Rhine. By now they have taken, in Anglo-Saxon and/or
Germanic directories and musical dictionaries, a place which is
denied to a music contemptuously dubbed "light" by the
French official art establishment.
In 1989, Jean-Louis PASTEUR settled down to the heavy task of
bringing a new life to this piece of his country's heritage. The
beautiful dance that is waltz, if cherished in the whole West,
took up particular traits with every one of its adopting lands.
The French waltz can be distinguished by its melodic
expressivity, a hard-to-resist liveliness, and high elegance. It
is a strikingly fine expression of the easy and radiant joie de
vivre the City of Light and the nation it brightened were seen as
incarnating.
By tirelessly searching, with the help of Chantal Bellon, attics,
private collections, second-hand stores and markets, old
bookstore or publishing house inventories, and above all through
the files and inexhaustible treasures of France's national
library, J.L.P. is conducting his exploration over more than
three hundred composers and some five thousand scores. No doubt
these could provide, after careful deciphering and a selection
based on emotional power and style quality, the stuff for a score
of compact discs.
PASTEUR is a piano player, a guitar player, a singer, a composer,
a waltzer awarded by Fédération Française de Danse, and a data
processing expert. He first renders the waltzes in a piano
version. Then he uses the techniques of computer-aided music in
order to treat, edit and, chiefly, register over a very large
timbre palette the sound files of some of these pieces where, in
this way, the nerve and rhythm of the keyboard is doubled with
the color and evocative force of instrumental and synthetic
sounds.
He also is the financial hand behind this project, after the
manner of the free and venturesome 19th-century artists whom, he
says, he feels honored to care for.
(Translated from the French by Georges
PASTEUR)
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The three discs of the Golden Century of French Waltzes are
available by direct order from Jean-Louis PASTEUR.
Would you like to acquire them ? To get more information and/or leave a message, please consult the price-list and order form of Jean-Louis PASTEUR's editions.
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