Jacques Ibert - La Ballade de la Geôle de Reading

Jacques François Antoine Marie Ibert (15 August 1890 – 5 February 1962) was a French composer of classical music. Having studied music from an early age, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire and won its top prize, the Prix de Rome at his first attempt, despite studies interrupted by his service in World War I. Please support my channels: https://ko-fi.com/bartjebartmans La Ballade de la Geôle de Reading (1921) Après Oscar Wilde Dedication: à M. Gabriel Pierné 1. Il n’avait plus sa tunique écarlate (0:00) 2. Cette nuit là, les corridors vides furents pleins de formes effrayantes (10:53) 3. Le vent frais du matin commença à gémir (18:44) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Adriano (Baumann) Based on Oscar Wildes impassioned text Le Ballade de la Geôle de Reading, Jacques Ibert's first symphonic work astonished and impressed audiences with its dark atmospheres of anguished madness and terror. The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1896) 1. He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead, The poor dead woman whom he loved, And murdered in her bed. 2. That night the empty corridors Were full of forms of Fear, And up and down the iron town Stole feet we could not hear, And through the bars that hide the stars White faces seemed to peer. 3. The morning wind began to moan, But still the night went on: Through its giant loom the web of gloom Crept till each thread was spun: And, as we prayed, we grew afraid Of the Justice of the Sun. Complete poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem...