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2019-07-24 09:54:00
Massenet- Chérubin
[…] Carlo, had she not remained firmly uncommunicative to interviewers (‘Och, I cannae remember...’). Clearly in 1903 the composer’s granary of attractive melodies was still well stocked, if none are as memorable as those of Manon or Werther; and the elegant, colourful, at times Spanish-inflected score retains much of its appeal today. Nor is it unworthily served here. Samuel Ramey exploits his smooth sonority to splendid effect as the sententious yet comprehending Philosophe. Among the lesser vignettes Michel Sénéchal’s Duc is outstanding. The revelation, however, is Dawn Upshaw: sweet-toned, infinitely touching, as Nina, the girl to whom Chérubin eventually turns." Julian Budden, BBC Music Magazine
2019-01-08 00:00:00
Henri Sauguet - Les Caprices de Marianne
Henri Sauguet (1901-1989)LES CAPRICES DE MARIANNE (1954)Andrée Esposito, Irma Kolassi, Camile MauraneMichel Sénéchal, Louis-Jacques RondeleuxGérard Friedmann, Paul Derenne, Claude GentyAgnès DisneyOrchestre Radio-Lyrique dir : Manuel RosenthalSolstice SOCD 98/99, 2 CDs, [P] 1993, currently out-of-printRecorded Paris, May 1959FLAC image files, cuesheets, logs, scans, libretto Henri Sauguet (18 May 1901 – 22 June 1989), was a French composer. Born in Bordeaux as Henri-Pierre Poupard, he adopted his mother's maiden name as his pseudonym. His output includes operas, ballets, four symphonies (1945, 1949, 1955, 1971), concertos, chamber and choral music and numerous songs, as well as film music. Although he experimented with musique concrète and expanded tonality, he remained opposed to particular systems and his music evolved little: he developed tonal or modal ideas in smooth curves, producing an art of clarity, simplicity and restraint. Sauguet started learning the piano at home when he was five years old. Later he was taught by the organist of […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2018-04-02 10:22:20
The international tenor Michel Sénéchal died yesterday. Outside of Paris and Brussels, he appeared at the Salzburg and Glyndebourne festivals and at many major opera houses. Renée Fleming counts him among her influences.
2017-07-29 17:45:12
Goodbye, gorgeous!
[…] era’s first great composer Lully had been a “foreigner,” the tremendous flowering of this repertoire can be traced primarily to Les Arts Florissants, the group founded in 1979 by Buffalo-born conductor and harpsichordist William Christie. There were, of course, stirrings before then. During the 1950s the Paris Opéra repeatedly revived its sumptuous production of Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes and the recording of the 1956 Aix-en-Provence Festival’s Platée conducted by Hans Rosbaud featuring the beyond-bewitching Michel Sénéchal in the title role remains essential listening. The ever-prescient Nadia Boulanger who in the 1930s was doing Monteverdi madrigals when almost no one else was also dipped her toe into her country’s 17th century recording about an hour of Médée, Charpentier’s grand, lone tragédie lyrique. But the superbly prepared, dramatically vivid efforts of LAF via its extensive discography—first on Harmonia Mundi, then Erato—have brought Lully, Rameau and especially Marc-Antoine Charpentier to a prominence many […]
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