Description

PHILIPPE GAUBERT (CAHORS, FRANCE, 5 JULY, 1879 – PARIS, FRANCE, 8 JULY, 1941)

 

 

 

 

He became one of the most prominent French musicians between the two World Wars. After a prominent career as a flautist with the Paris Opéra, he was appointed in 1919, at the age of forty, to three positions that placed him at the very centre of French musical life:

Professor of flute in the Conservatoire de Paris (teacher of Marcel Moyse),

Principal conductor of the Paris Opéra

Principal conductor of the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire.

In 1907 he participated in the first performance of Maurice Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet. Among his recordings as conductor, one that he made of César Franck’s Symphony in D minor (with the Conservatoire forces) is particularly notable.

Gaubert’s compositions are not especially innovative, but his work benefited from the examples of Franck, Ravel, and Debussy. Naïla, his opera in three acts, premiered at the Palais Garnier on 7 April 1927. Three of his ballets had their first performances at that venue, as well.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

1. Badinerie (Bach) Gramophone W 365 Paris 1919
2. Fantaisie pastorale (Franz Doppler) Gramophone W 380 03330v Paris 1919
3. Le petit berger (Debussy) Variations du Ballet d’Ascanio (Saint-Saëns) Gramophone W 380  03328v 1919
4. Madrigal (Gaubert) Gramophone 039152 769aj Paris 1919
5. Nocturne (Chopin) Gramophone W 303 770aj Paris 1919
6. Ballade, Op. 19 (Faure) with Marguerite Long (piano) Columbia LFX 54, LFX 55
7. Daphnis et Chloé (Ravel) Danse générale Columbia LFX 41
8. Daphnis et Chloé (Ravel) Lever du jour Columbia LFX 41
9. Daphnis et Chloé (Ravel) Pantomime Columbia LFX 42
10. Joyeuse marche (Chabrier) Columbia LFX 174
11. La Damnation de Faust (Berlioz) Marche Hongroise Columbia LFX 530
12. Pélleas et Mélisande (Faure) Sicilienne Columbia D 15052
13. Shylock Nocturne No. 5 (Faure) Columbia LFX 465
14. Coppelia (Delibes) Mazurka Columbia LFX 304
15. Coppelia (Delibes) Valse Columbia LFX 304