Josée Bégaud

Freelance translator
English > French

jbegaud@josee-begaud.fr

Translations

Music

Wonderful Town de Bernstein

I specialise in classical music, working equally for record companies, DVD producers, book and music publishers and specialist journals. Since 1998 I have also been one of the editorial consultants on L'Avant-Scène Opéra.

CDs and DVDs

Books on music

La Guitare aux éditions First

Gunther Braam, The Portraits of Hector Berlioz, Baerenreiter, "New Berlioz Edition", vol. 26, 2003

Dave Hunter, Play Acoustic, French translation: La Guitare. À vous de jouer !, Éditions First, 2007

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Opera librettos

Michael Berkeley, Jane Eyre, Chandos Records, CHAN 9983

Leonard Bernstein, Wonderful Town, EuroArts, 2005Albert Herring de Britten

Benjamin Britten, Albert Herring, Chandos Records, CHAN 10036; L'Avant-Scène Opéra 248, 2009

Benjamin Britten, Billy Budd, L'Avant-Scène Opéra 158, 1994

Benjamin Britten, Owen Wingrave, L'Avant-Scène Opéra 173, 1996

Unsuk Chin, Alice in Wonderland, after the book by Lewis Carroll, EuroArts, 2008

Lorin Maazel, 1984, after the novel by George Orwell, Decca, 2008

Gian Carlo Menotti, The Saint of Bleecker Street, Chandos Records, CHAN 9971

Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, L'Avant-Scène Opéra 247, 2008

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Translations available online
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Sonate pour orgue d'Elgar

Short introduction to Édouard Lalo's Fiesque

Introduction to the piano works of Lennox and Michael Berkeley (downloadable PDF)

Arcadi Volodos at Carnegie Hall

Introduction to Elgar's First Symphony and Organ Sonata (downloadable PDF)