Composer: Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea
Performer: Romeo Cornelius, Mihaela Stanciu, Romanian National Opera Chorus
Orchestra: Romanian National Opera Orchestra
Conductor: Răsvan Cernat
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0595
Release: 2021
Size: 711 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Prologue
02. Soldier’s March
03. The Quarrel
04. The Church
05. The Meeting
06. The Mayor’s House
07. Vergy
08. The Seminary at Besançon
09. The Ball
10. Seduction
11. Alone
12. Korasoff
13. Passion Tango
14. The Scandal
15. The Letter
16. The Bells [Carillon]
17. The Prison
18. The Judgement
19. Last Meeting
20. The Execution
21. The Death of Madame de Rênal
Le rouge et le noir, the pioneering psychological novel by Stendhal published in 1830, has had a number of adaptations on film but surprisingly few treatments in music. This three-act ballet, premiered in 2000, by the Romanian composer Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea (bon 1959), rectifies that omission in the grand manner. The atmosphere is dark and passionate, as the novel requires, and the musical language reflects the remarkable tradition of Romanian modernism that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century from the music of Enescu – a distinctive soundworld that blends rich timbral colour with deep roots in Romanian folk-music.