MAUREGARD / ADIEU MES QUINZE ANS

Remastered edition. Limited Edition of 500 units.
8-page CD booklet with French and English liner notes by Gilles Loison.

Music Box Records is proud to present the thirteenth volume of the collection Great Television Soundtracks, dedicated to two original scores for television series composed and conducted by Georges Delerue: Mauregard (1970) and Adieu mes quinze ans (1971).

Claude de Givray, associated with the French New Wave and a longtime collaborator of François Truffaut, began a career in television, directing documentaries about cinema and History. In the early 1970s, he directed two television series, Mauregard and Adieu mes quinze ans. Mauregard is steeped in a Balzacian world, with references to The Lily of the Valley, already heard in Truffaut's work through his character Antoine Doinel. The saga tells the story of a family from the Val-de-Loire region in France, near Balzac’s own home, and their ancestral castle of Mauregard, over the course of a hundred years, from the late 19th century to the 1970s, with twenty-year time jumps between each episode. For this romantic epic, Delerue draws on the spirit of Brahms - his favorite composer - placing the waltz at the heart of the score. It gracefully and melancholically accompanies the love story between the two protagonists, Maxence and Françoise (Richard Leduc and Claude Jade), while enveloping the family intrigues in timeless elegance. 

Adieu mes quinze ans sensitively explores the world of adolescence - a theme dear to de Givray. Adapted from a bestselling young adult novel by Claude Campagne, the series follows 15-year-old Fanny (played by the young Patricia Calas, already known from an adaptation of Hector Malot’s En famille), whose life is turned upside down by the arrival of a charismatic truck driver, Yann. The ensemble blends emerging talents - Christian Baltauss (seen at the TNP) and Norwegian model Lill Börjesson as Ingvild - with veteran French actors such as Henri Guisol and Jany Holt. For this intimate and melancholic chronicle, Delerue creates a delicate and poetic score. He cradles Fanny’s confidences, written in her diary, with a slow Vivaldi-inspired ballad on guitar - a variation drawn from the Andante of Vivaldi’s Mandolin Concerto in D major. The orchestration is enriched with flute, clarinet, oboe, zither, and harp to evoke hushed, dreamy atmospheres, while the strings provide long lyrical lines or nervous ostinatos during moments of suspense and heightened emotion.

Remastered from the scoring session tapes courtesy of Georges Delerue's personal archives, this present edition features the world premiere release of these two gorgeous television scores. The CD comes with an 8-page booklet with liner notes by Gilles Loison. The CD release is limited to 500 units. 

MAUREGARD (1970)

1. Mauregard (Générique) (1:24)

2. Le pigeon voyageur (2:43)

3. Le château en ruines (1:30)

4. La réconciliation de Maxence et Richard (1:14)

5. L'histoire de Françoise (2:32)

6. Les vendanges (1:15)

7. Le canon du château (1:17)

8. Incendie du bureau d'Hippolyte (1:13)

9. La partie de croquet (1:19)

10. Les Allemands occupent le château (2:13)

11. L'adieu à Mauregard (1:57)

12. Bal des fiançailles (1:20)

13. Retour de Clément (2:03)

14. Préparation du bombardement du viaduc (1:49)

15. Le duel des héritiers (1:46)

16. Valse du renoncement (2:02)

17. Colère d'Hippolyte (1:36)

18. Le temps des amours (1:37)

19. Mauregard au fil des saisons (1:58)

Total Time • 33:36

ADIEU MES QUINZE ANS (1971)

20. Adieu mes quinze ans (Générique) (1:08)

21. Fanny et Ingvild (2:03)

22. Le bonheur de Fanny (1:57)

23. Le Cadran Solaire (1:33)

24. Capitaine Le Marroy (2:53)

25. Yann s’enfuit (2:03)

26. Le paquet bleu (1:14)

27. Ingvild part à la recherche de Yann (1:44)

28. Adolescence heureuse (3:28)

29. Souvenir d'une chanson norvégienne (0:54)

30. L’absence de Yann (1:00)

31. La fin de l'adolescence (1:34)

Total Time • 22:00

Total Album Time • 55:38