Les Noces de Feu (Les musiques du spectacle, extraits) Various Artists - Les Noces de Feu

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827):
• 1 Beethoven: Un voile de rosée (D'après le Concerto pour piano n°5, opus 73, "l'Empereur" de Ludwig van Beethoven) (Un voile de rosée (D'après le Concerto pour piano n°5, opus 73, "l'Empereur" de Ludwig van Beethoven)) 02:20
• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921):
• 2 Saint-Saëns: Le jardin d'amour (D'après le Carnaval des animaux, VII. Aquarium de Camille Saint-Saëns) 01:09
• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828):
• 3 Schubert: Le bal des fiançailles (D'après le Trio, Op. 100, D. 929 de Franz Schubert) 01:24
• Camille Saint-Saëns:
• 4 Saint-Saëns: Le cortège (D'après la Danse Macabre de Camille Saint-Saëns) 01:42
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893):
• 5 Tchaikovsky: Nymphes et sylphides (D'après Le Lac des Cygnes de Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) 03:03
• Vittorio Monti (1868 - 1922):
• 6 Monti: Danse du lac (D'après Csárdás de Vittorio Monti) 01:11
• Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880):
• 7 Offenbach: Le carrosse aux cygnes (D'après Les contes d'Hoffmann de Jacques Offenbach) 02:29
• Johann Strauss II (1825 - 1899):
• 8 Strauss II: La valse des noces (D'après Le Beau Danube Bleu de Johann Strauss) 02:26
• Camille Saint-Saëns:
• 9 Saint-Saëns: L'orgue d'eau (D'après la Symphonie No. 3, Op. 78 de Camille Saint-Saëns) 01:31
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750):
• 10 J.S.Bach: L'orgue de feu (D'après la Toccata, BWV 565 de Johann Sebastian Bach) 02:10
• Gioacchino Rossini (1792 - 1868):
• 11 Rossini: Le ballet des épousailles (D'après l'ouverture de Guillaume Tell de Gioacchino Rossini) 02:42
• Total Runtime 22:07

Info for Les Noces de Feu (Les musiques du spectacle, extraits)

At nightfall, Les Noces de Feu draws us into the love story of a muse who floats and glides on the inky mirror of the old sleeping lake. With her violin she calls her fiancé, a virtuoso pianist with long crystal fingers, who emerges from the dark waters with his piano of light. The two of them bring up their old memories from the depths, which come out like dazzling surges, leading them to their wedding. Magnified by the organs of water and fire that unfold on the lake, the wedding will be celebrated in a golden coach pulled by giant swans...

This romantic story composes a ballet carried by the greatest classical tunes. This is why the Puy du Fou has chosen the best musicians to interpret the music. Camille and Julie Berthollet, the prodigy sisters of the young French generation, and their accomplice Vincent Forestier, have answered the call of the Puy du Fou to play the muse and the virtuoso, in this musical dialogue full of emotions and contrasts. To give the show its musical colour and rhythm, Samuel Pegg and Martin Batchelar, London collaborators of the greatest composers of our time, have sculpted a tailor-made orchestration for this show, full of finesse. It is in London, in the most sought-after studio in the world - Air Studios - that the Puy du Fou has brought together the finest musicians in demand to perform the famous melodies. Finally, the organs link us to our beloved Vendée, since for one night, they rang out for us in Luçon, thanks to the talent of Michel Bourcier.

Now enjoy what the greatest composers have left us, specially rewritten for the Puy du Fou, and join the Noces de Feu ball!

Puy du Fou Orchester (tracks 1-11)
Gavin Greenaway, direction
Thomas Bowes, 1st violin
Julie Berthollet, violin (tracks 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
Camille Berthollet, cello (tracks 3, 5, 7), violin (tracks 9, 10, 11)
Tom Pigott-Smith, violin (track 6)
Vincent Forestier, piano (tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11)
Michel Bourcier, organ (tracks 9, 10, 11)
Alasdair Malloy, harmonica de verre (tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 7)

Thomas Bowes
Tom’s recording of the complete Bach Sonatas and Partitas was released in 2018 on the Navona label to great critical acclaim, with Laurence Vittes in Gramophone Magazine noting it was ‘deeply human…unusually communicative…a succession of miracles.’ His ‘Bach Pilgrimage’ is a feature of every season and future events will take him all over the world. In 2019 Tom was given a ‘Sebastian Award’ by the Ars Ante Portas Civic Association of Bratislava, Slovakia for his ‘Extraordinary contribution in maintaining public appreciation of the work of JS Bach’.

His concerto appearances in the UK, Germany and the USA have included highly praised performances of concertos by Elgar, Britten, Szymanowski and Walton.

Navona also released Tom’s recording of the complete Ysaÿe Solo Sonatas in 2020. Critics noted a depth of interpretation and characterisation. The recording was nominated for the solo instrumental category of the International Classical Music Awards.

Between 1988 and 1993 Tom was the founding leader of the Maggini String Quartet and together with his wife, the composer and pianist Eleanor Alberga, formed the duo Double Exposure in 1995. The duo toured extensively with concerts and broadcasts in the USA and Europe and together they made a major tour of China in 1997, winning the hearts of their audiences wherever they played. They returned to China in November 2019.

Tom had been a constant advocate of Alberga’s music and has given first performances of many of her works including her two violin concertos. A world premiere recording of both concertos was released on the Lyrita label in February 2022 with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Joseph Swensen.

Between 2003 and 2015 Tom was the Artistic Director of the Langvad Chamber Music Jamboree in Denmark. More recently, with Alberga, he founded the annual music festival ‘Arcadia’ in north Herefordshire, England.

Tom is privileged to own and play a violin by one of the great Cremonese makers - a splendid 1659 Nicolo Amati.

He is very active in the realm of cinema, and millions have heard him on the soundtracks of his numerous (200+)

Gavin Greenaway
is a British Emmy® award-winning pianist, composer and conductor with an extensive catalogue of achievements: conducting over 100 feature film and television soundtracks, composing for major entertainment and cultural events, and producing and songwriting with chart-topping artists.

His career in the music industry began at Sir George Martin’s iconic Air Studios on Oxford Street where he assisted on a variety of projects including Elvis Costello’s seminal ‘Shipbuilding’ with the legendary Chet Baker. Following studies at Trinity College of Music, he quickly established himself as an in-demand composer for theatre, film and television.

Commissioned to compose ‘something incredible’ to accompany the nightly firework display at Disney World’s EPCOT, Florida he created the symphonic Reflections of Earth which played there every night for 20 years and went on to win an Emmy® Award. Greenaway contributed music to numerous movies as well as writing and producing songs with Bryan Adams and Trevor Horn for DreamWorks. Additional commissions followed for projects as diverse as the Lighting of the Olympic Cauldron for the Vancouver Winter Olympics, to music for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations in 2012.

Known for having the ‘best ears in the business’, Greenaway has fostered long-standing relationships with many of the world’s eminent music creators, conducting scores for the likes of Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard, John Powell, Junkie XL, and Daft Punk, and albums for artists including Andrea Bocelli, George Michael and Sir Paul McCartney. In 2006, he was engaged by Sir Paul McCartney to conduct the world premiere his oratorio Ecce Cor Meum at the Royal Albert Hall in London and again for the US premier at Carnegie Hall in New York.

In recent years, he has been instrumental in bringing some of our best loved soundtracks to the live stage, including world premiere performances of the live-to-picture productions of Interstellar, Independence Day and Casino Royale. In 2018, Greenaway was appointed Musical Director for The World of Hans Zimmer with concerts across Europe. Gavin, who Zimmer says he trusts ‘more than I trust myself’ conducts the large symphony orchestra and presents an immersive multi-media extravaganza.

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