Maurice Ravel - L’heure espagnole (1911) (English subtitles)
Composer: Joseph Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937)
Torquemada, a clockmaker: Luca Lombardo, tenor
Concepcion, Torquemada’s wife: Isabelle Druet, mezzo-soprano
Gonzalve, a poet: Frédéric Antoun, tenor
Ramiro, a muleteer: Marc Barrard, baritone
Don Iñigo Gomez, a banker: Nicolas Courjal, bass
Orchestra: Orchestre National de Lyon conducted by Leonard Slatkin
(There are English subtitles!)
00:00 Introduction - Torquemada’s clock shop
02:27 I - Ramiro has come to have his watch fixed.
04:26 II - Concepcion reminds Torquemada he must go fix the government clocks. She also requests a clock for her room, but Torquemada says they are too heavy.
06:27 III - Torquemada has left, but leaves behind Ramiro, ruining Concepcion’s plans. She busies him by having him move one of the clocks to her room.
08:48 IV - Gonzalve comes and “serenades“ her with his poems. She is impatient to hide him from Ramiro.
11:53 V - Ramiro returns after moving the clock. Concepcion sends him back to get the clock again. Gonzalve continues to serenade Concepcion.
13:28 VI - Concepcion has Gonzalve hide inside a clock, planning to have Ramiro unknowingly carry him into her room.
15:07 VII - Inigo comes, having had placed Torquemada in charge of the government clocks, hoping to seduce Concepcion
17:02 VIII - Ramiro returns with the clock. She has him bring the clock with Gonzalve to her room, and leaves with him.
18:27 IX - Inigo thinks he has been rejected. He hopes to win her by acting silly: he hides in a clock and makes cuckoo sounds.
20:31 X - Ramiro returns. He is taken with Concepcion because she gives him work.
22:35 XI - Concepcion returns, seemingly distraught that the clock is broken, and has Ramiro bring it back again.
23:11 XII - Inigo tries to delight Concepcion with cuckoos. She pleads for him to just leave, but he is stuck...
26:18 XIII - Ramiro returns with the clock with Gonzalve inside. Concepcion sends him back to her room carrying the clock with Inigo inside, which Inigo interprets as success...
27:18 XIV - Concepcion asks Gonzalve to stop with his poems and leave, but he instead poetically romances about his clock-prison and stays. Concepcion leaves, frustrated.
28:54 XV - Gonzalve sings of the delights of his imprisonment, likening it to a nymph’s.
30:26 XVI - Ramiro returns and sings again of Concepcion’s charms. He muses being a clockmaker. Concepcion returns and sends him to fetch the clock again.
33:18 XVII - Concepcion bemoans who she has for lovers. She angrily pounds on the clock, with Gonzalve still in it.
36:15 XVIII - Ramiro returns with the clock with Inigo inside. She asks him to go back to her room ...without a clock... and leaves with him.
37:44 XIX - Inigo is still stuck and laments his physical and emotional situation. Gonzalve bids farewell to his prison, but quickly reenters as Torquemada returns.
41:27 XX - Torquemada nevertheless spots the two, and “sells“ them the clocks they are hiding in.
43:09 Inigo asks to be pulled out. Torquemada, Gonzalve, and Concepcion all fail before Ramiro easily pulls him out. Concepcion says Ramiro is as “regular as a chronometer“, so Torquemada has Ramiro be the clock for Concepcion’s room.
44:45 Ritournelle - The moral of Boccaccio: “the muleteer has his turn“
Translation adapted from translation found in booklet of Testament release
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