Michel Magne - Les Misérables 1982

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£11.41

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: PL1711339
Barcode: 3700403513455
Release Date: 22nd January 2021
Genre: Soundtrack

TRACKLISTING:
1. Requiem de la Liberté (Final)
2. Nostalgie d'une tendresse
3. Jour de colère (Dies Irae)
4. Recueillement (Agnus Dei)
5. Thème Cosette et Valjean
6. L'Enterrement Lamarck
7. La rencontre
8. Thème du souvenir
9. La chanson de Cosette
10. Nostalgie Les Misérables (version I)
11. Requiem des barricades
12. Thème du mariage (version I)
13. Le destin de Valjean
14. La promenade de Cosette (version russe)
15. Thème de Fantine
16. Nostalgie Les Misérables (version II)
17. Thème du mariage (version II)
18. Requiem miniature

In the fall of 1982, Robert Hossein returned to the cinema with Les Misérables, a cathedral film with brilliant distribution (Ventura, Carmet, Bouquet). "This is the project of my life," he confesses, "Ces Misérables, I treated them like a chronicle, that of a man in search of his soul. For the soundtrack, he reconnects with a childhood friend, the composer Michel Magne, who has so often set it to music, from Warrior's Rest to Angélique.

For Magne, the subject of Les Misérables imposes a solemnity, a depth of field, a feeling of elevation. He signs a vast score for orchestra and chorus, which culminates with a grandiose Requiem des barricades. For the first time, here is the full version of Les Miserables according to Magne, a sort of testament from the composer, two years before his death. "The passion that Michel put into this collaboration pierced my soul," concludes Robert Hossein. The requiem of Les Misérables is first of all that of Magne."