Jacques Mercier - Jacques Ibert: Le Chevalier errant - Les Amours de Jupiter (2015) [Hi-Res]

Jacques Mercier and the Orchestre national de Lorraine present two world premiere recordings of works by French composer Jacques Ibert. The suite Le Chevalier errant is based on the Don Quixote story, but with a twist. In a radio interview in 1954, Ibert explained that the character of Don Quixote "was conceived not as he usually is, with a little beard, a barber's bowl on his head and an hallucinatory air, but as he sees himself in the course of the adventures he lives so intensely." Hence a musical translation that avoids cliché and is both forceful and poetic. Rounding out the programme is Les Amours de Jupiter, a grand ballet, depicting the many conquests of the master of Olympus: Europa, Leda, Danaë and Ganymede, before the return of Juno to the conjugal bed.