Henri Tomasi (1901 - 1971)
"Ballade pour Saxophone et orchestre ou piano"
Piano accompaniment performed by Matthew Toogood.
Sponsored by Scott Simpkins.
The work is based on a 14th century ballad of medieval troubardours, with the following poem by Suzanne Malard, Tomasi’s wife inspiring the composition. The saxophone represents the clown in the poem.
Sur un vieux thème anglais, long maigre et flegmatique
comme lui
un clown raconte son histoire spleenétique
à la nuit.
L’ombre de son destin, le long des quais zigzague
et le goût
de mégot qu’en sa bouche ont pris de vieilles blagues
le rend fou.
Fuir son habit trop large et sa chair monotone
en n’étant
entre la joie et la douleur, qu’un saxophone
hésitant !
Son désespoir, au fond d’une mare sonore
coule à pic.
Et le clown se résigne à faire rire encore
le public.
[On an old English theme, long, thin and phlegmatic
like him
a clown tells his melancholy tale
to the night.
The shadow of his fate, the length of the zigzagging quays
and the taste
of the fag-end that in his mouth has taken up old jests
makes him mad.
To get away from his coat, too big, and his dull flesh
while only being,
between joy and sorrow, a saxophone
hesitating!
His despair, to the bottom of a sounding pool
sinks right down.
And the clown resigns himself again to making
the public laugh.]
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