Main Performer: Andreas Schmidt (Baritone); Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (Soprano); Evgeny Nesterenko (Bass); Francisco Araiza (Tenor); Gilles Cachemaille (Baritone)
Orchestra / Ensemble(s): Bavarian Radio Chorus; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Label / Distributor: The Originals / Universal Manufacturing and Logistics
Pieces in Set: 3
Genre(s): Stage works
Stereo: Stereo
SPAR Code: DDD
EAN: 28947577690
Catalogue Number: 475
Work 1
Work Title: Faust
Excerpt(s): 1. ACT 1 - Introduction 2. Rien! En vain j'interroge; Salut! ô mon dernier matin 3. Mais ce Dieu; Me voici! D'où vient ta surprise? 4. A moi les plaisirs; O merveille! 5. ACT 2 - Vin ou bière (Kermesse Scene) 6. O sainte médaille; Avant de quitter ces lieux 7. Le veau d'or 8. A votre santé! (Sword Scene) 9. Nous nous retrouverons; Ainsi que la brise légère; Ne permettrez-vous pas; Valse 10. ACT 3 - Faites-lui mes aveux 11. Quel trouble inconnu; Salut! demeure chaste et pure 12. Je voudrais bien savoir; Il était un roi de Thulé 13. O Dieu! que de bijoux!; Ah! je ris (Jewel Song) 14. Seigneur Dieu, que vois-je!; Prenez mon bras; Eh! quoi! toujours seule? 15. Il était temps!; Il se fait tard!; O nuit d'amour; Il m'aime! 16. ACT 4 - Elles ne sont plus là! 17. Si le bonheur (When all was young) 18. Déposons les armes (Soldiers' Chorus); Gloire immortelle 19. Qu'attendez-vous encore?; Vous qui faites l'endormie (Serenade) 20. Que voulez-vous, messieurs? (Duel Scene) 21. Par ici! (Death of Valentine); Écoute-moi bien 22. Seigneur, daignez permettre (Church Scene) 23. ACT 5 - Walpurgis Night 24. Mon coeur est pénétré d'épouvante!; Attends! Voici la rue; Et voici le jardin charmant 25. Alerte! alerte!; Anges purs 26. BALLET MUSIC 27. Les nubiennes; Adagio; Danse antique; Variations de Cléopâtre; Les troyens; Variations du miroir; Danse de Phryné 28. ADDITIONAL: Come vorrei saper
Composer: Charles (François) Gounod (1818 - 1893)
Genre: Stage works
Date Written: 1859
Date Recorded: 1986
Conductor: Colin Davis
Orchestra / Ensemble: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra / Ensemble: Bavarian Radio Chorus
Main Performer: Andreas Schmidt (Baritone), Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (Soprano), Evgeny Nesterenko (Bass), Francisco Araiza (Tenor), Gilles Cachemaille (Baritone), Marjana Lipovsek (Mezzo soprano), Pamela Coburn (Soprano)
Opera Part(s): Andreas Schmidt (Valentin), Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (Marguerite), Evgeny Nesterenko (Méphistophélès), Francisco Araiza (Faust), Gilles Cachemaille (Wagner), Marjana Lipovsek (Marthe), Pamela Coburn (Siébel)
Advantages: Great performances of popular favourites and some rare gems Disadvantages: Barely none, with perhaps slight issues with sound.
...1961 Mercury recording of Antal Dorati conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. Though the sound is a little thin due to the age of the recording, it is still a very good performance and the sound is crisp and clear. Gabriel Fauré's "Le Pas Espagnol" from the Dolly Suite is slightly comical and parodies Spanish music with much good humour, tambourines and trumpets creating a scene of festivity with considerable élan. Another great little make-weight. Christoph Willibald Gluck's famous "Dance of the Blessed Spirits" then creates a nice soothing, almost lullaby-like feeling for the listener, something that would indeed be most suitable for falling asleep with.
Charles Gounod takes centre stage next with the two pieces that he is best remembered today from. The Waltz from his smash-hit opera Faust is about as "buttery" as music can get...
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Bygone Class Review ofCaruso: The Greatest Tenor in the World!by
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Advantages: Classic recordings from a master of his trade. Disadvantages: Mono recordings, Crackly in parts.
...Cottone, Umberto Giordano, Francis Lapitiono, Geraldine Farrar and more.
The conductors are: Walter Rogers, Josef Pasternack, Giulio Setti
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
Tracks include:
Carmen: La fleur que tu m'avais jetée "Flower song" by Georges Bizet
Les pêcheurs de perles: Je crois entendre encore by Georges Bizet
L'Elisir d'Amore: Una furtiva lagrima by Gaetano Donizetti
La Favorita: Spirto gentil by Gaetano Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor: Chi mi frena in tal momento? (Sextet) by Gaetano Donizetti
Germania: Studenti! Udite! by Alberto Franchetti
Fedora: Amor ti vieta by Umberto Giordano
Andrea Chénier: Un dì all' azzuro spazio "Improvviso" by Umberto Giordano
Die Königin von Saba, Op. 27: Magische Töne by Karl Goldmark
Faust: Salut! demeure chaste et pure by Charles Gounod...
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Advantages: Good for upsetting opera lovers Disadvantages: You could lose the will to live
...Florence Foster Jenkins on it. The best (or rather, the worst) is saved till last. One day (a date I haven’t yet discovered) two people, Jenny Williams and Thomas Burns, walked into the RCA recording studios and asked to record some extracts from Gounod’s opera, “Faust” at their own expense and for their own use. RCA eventually persuaded them to release the record for public enjoyment (I think that’s the right word). The results are almost indescribable; though as I’m supposed to be describing them I’ll do my best. If Madame Jenkins’ voice was merely off key, these two have no tonal quality whatever. Indeed, it’s not clear from which of their bodily orifices the sound is coming.
I would give a track-by-track commentary to this CD but I haven’t been able to bring myself to it all the way through. You can only take so much before losing...
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