As occurred with Georges Auric or, in minor measured, with Arthur Honegger, the musical work for movies of the French Jacques Ibert deserves much more than the attention it has received, and only his stupendous score for the Gene Kelly musical film Invitation to the Dance (1956) attracted certain popularity. Ibert, that curiously wanted to be an actor before a composer, worked in a good number of movies; the fact that these would be of French origin, and of scarce international projection, prevented him to achieve to be more involved in the gender. And listening his superb music for the Orson Welles version of Macbeth (1948), there is no doubt of what he could have obtain; a perfect work, intensely dramatic, with some genial touches as the coral utilization in The Ghost of Banquo, it has been too much time relegated, and deserves the greater possible attention. The others titles included in this disk are from the beginning of sound pictures, and in them stands out certain sound "audacities" particularly original, as the use of saxophone and Ondes Martenot in Golgotha (1935), or the clavichord and the guitar in the Chansons from the Don Quichotte (1933) by G.W. Pabst.

MACBETH (Suite) (1948) - 30:06
GOLGOTHA (Suite) (1935) - 34:35
DON QUICHOTTE (Chansons) (1933) - 11:29
Henry Kiichli (Bass) - Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava) - Conductor: Adriano
MARCO POLO 8.223287 / 77'

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