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2018-06-27 23:00:00
Messager: Fortunio - Gardiner
André Messager (1853-1929)FORTUNIO (1907)Thierry Dran, Colette Alliot-Lugaz, Gille CachemailleFrancis Dudziak, Michel TrempontChoeurs de l'Opéra de LyonOrchestre de l'Opéra de Lyondir : John Eliot GardinerRecorded 1987Erato Libretto 2292-45983-2 stereo, 2 CDs [P] 1993FLAC images, cuesheets, scans, booklet When I reviewed the original release of this recording I suggested it was as well to get possible misconceptions out of the way right at the start. So let me stress that this is not another operetta by the composer of Véronique‚ but a genuine opera. Messager was‚ after all‚ a cultured musician‚ who was artistic director at the Paris Opéra and Covent Garden‚ as well as the original conductor of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande.He composed Fortunio for the Paris OpéraComique in 1907‚ when the legal clerk Landry and the soldier Clavaroche were created by Jean Périer and Hector Dufranne‚ the creators of Pelléas and Golaud in Debussy’s opera. Fernand Francell sang the […]
2018-04-09 23:00:00
Chabrier - L'ÉTOILE - Gardiner
Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)L'ÉTOILE (1877)Colette Alliot-Lugaz, Georges Gautier, Gabriel BaquierGhyslaine Raphanel, Magali Damonte, François Le RouxOrchestre et Choeurs de l'Opéra de Lyondir : John Eliot GardinerEMI 7478898, [P] 1984FLAC images, cuesheets, logs, scans, booklet Stravinsky considered L'Etoile a little masterpiece; Debussy, Duparc and Ravel all held it in the highest esteem; Reynaldo Hahn, most sensitive of conductors and composers of light opera, called it a ''rare jewel of French operetta where the buffoonery and poetic verve of Offenbach are presented with all the musical charm, elegance and profusion the latter never sought''. It was produced in 1877 at the Bouffes-Parisiens, where the orchestra initially took fright at the unaccustomed subtlety of the scoring, and the more conservative critics inveighed against Chabrier's 'Wagnerism' (it being known that he was a fervent Wagner admirer): its sparkling brilliance was not generally recognized until the […]
2016-10-16 01:00:00
Jean-Baptiste Lully Alceste ou le Triomphe d’Alcide Jean-Philippe Lafont, Alcide Colette Alliot-Lugaz, Alceste Howard Crook, Admète Sophie Marin-Degor, Céphise, La gloire Gilles Ragon, Lychas Jean-François Gardeil, Straton Véronique Gens, la Nymphe des Tuileries Ensemble Vocal Sagittarius La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy Jean-Claude Malgoire, cond. Disques Montaigne, 1992. FLAC + CUE + Scans. EmbedUpload • Mega
2015-06-18 03:00:00
Des horizons plus vastes de la musique Française - Vol. 3
Master of precision, exquisite gem-cutter, weaver of the finest musical filigree. In short: Ravel. Dedicating this post to some of the most beloved recordings of music by the genius from Ciboure, with my most deferential admiration... Maurice Ravel La Valse Boléro Rapsodie espagnole Alborada del gracioso Orchestre National de France Lorin Maazel CBS MK 37289 (1984) Maurice Ravel Daphnis et Chloé John Alldis Choir London Philharmonic Orchestra Bernard Haitink LPO 0059 (1979) Maurice Ravel Daphnis et Chloé (Piano Version) Igor Stravinsky 3 Mouvements de Petrouchka Claire-Marie Le Guay, Piano HQ DDL - Musidisc 5504241 (2002) Maurice Ravel Daphnis et Chloé (Suites Nos. 1 & 2) La Valse Boléro Rapsodie espagnole Wiener Philharmoniker Lorin Maazel RCA 68600-2 (1996) (New Rip) Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto in G Le Tombeau de Couperin (Piano Version) Igor Stravinsky Capriccio Monique Haas, Piano Orchester des Nordwestdeutschen Rundfunks […]
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