Maurice Jaubert pour mémoire
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| # | Track | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Danse totem (From Au pays du sclap) (1932) | 1:50 | |
| 2. | Part.1 (From En Crète sans les dieux) (1934) | 2:17 | |
| 3. | Part.2 (From En Crète sans les dieux) (1934) | 2:15 | |
| 4. | Part.3 (From En Crète sans les dieux) (1934) | 2:12 | |
| 5. | Part.4 (From En Crète sans les dieux) (1934) | 2:22 | |
| 6. | Part.5 (From En Crète sans les dieux) (1934) | 3:00 | |
| 7. | Part.6 (From En Crète sans les dieux) (1934) | 1:42 | |
| 8. | Part.7 (From En Crète sans les dieux) (1934) | 2:37 | |
| 9. | Suite 1 (From Drôle de drame) (1937) | 3:56 | |
| 10. | Suite 2 (From Drôle de drame) (1937) | 4:31 | |
| 11. | Générique et ouverture (From Un carnet de bal) (1937) | 2:53 | |
| 12. | Le Rêve: Valse grise inversée (From Un carnet de bal) (1937) | 2:04 | |
| 13. | Chant sacré (From Un carnet de bal) (1937) | 1:45 | |
| 14. | Marche villageoise (From Un carnet de bal) (1937) | 1:18 | |
| 15. | Final: La Valse grise (From Un carnet de bal) (1937) | 1:02 | |
| 16. | Générique et ouverture (From Hôtel du Nord) (1938) | 2:33 | |
| 17. | Fête du 14 juillet et Final (From Hôtel du Nord) (1938) | 4:24 | |
| 18. | Thème principal (From La Fin du jour) (1939) | 2:44 | |
| 45:25 |
Maurice Jaubert pour mémoire
Added on Monday, March 02, 2020
Disques CinéMusique responds to the growing interest for Maurice Jaubert (1900-1940) film music with an album grouping several of his hard-to-find soundtracks. Due to the absence of discographic support, the music has been remastered from the best DVD releases and archival videos available on the Internet.
Disques CinéMusique responds to the growing interest for Maurice Jaubert (1900-1940) film music with an album grouping several of his hard-to-find soundtracks. Due to the absence of discographic support, the music has been remastered from the best DVD releases and archival videos available on the Internet.
The only excerpt in fairly good condition that we found from the soundtrack of the documentary Au pays du scalp (1932) has an exotic color. Jaubert, who did not discriminate between concert music and the one composed for the screen, will draw from it for his Amazon Dances.
The sound quality of En Crète sans les dieux (1934) also leaves something to be desired, but it is a precious document. Maurice Jaubert offers themes with a daring ethnic flavor for the time in France. He will reuse them partly in Géographies, a symphonic sequel that Disques Cinémusique reissued on the double album Concert Maurice Jaubert, available on CD and in digital version on the Internet.
La Valse grise from Un Carnet de bal (1937) has become famous to the point of overshadowing the rest of the original soundtrack, which is over 30 minutes long. This romantic drama by Julien Duvivier being very talkative, we could only get a few additional musical extracts, played on screen for the most part, including the famous reverse version of La Valse grise.
For Hôtel du Nord (1938), Jaubert re-uses two themes from L'Atalante. The first, with alto saxophone, is heard in the opening of the second half of the first Suite; the second is part of the second Suite focusing on July 14 festive music of the long final sequence. The composer wanted to preserve these themes he thought were lost, his soundtrack for Vigo's masterpiece having been replaced by a so-called more commercial one.
In La Fin du Jour (1939) Duvivier also included much dialogue, which doesn’t favour the musical interventions of Jaubert. We have kept only the superb opening title, which is fortunately lengthy enough. In this film, Jaubert gave up his usual economy in favour of an almost continuous musical tapestry, to the point of sometimes becoming invasive. This derogation to the composer's principles is probably due to the will of the director, reputedly uncompromising.
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