classical music: delunsch     classical music:       Rossini: Songs Rossini, none Opera Rara, 2010 If a time-machine could take us back through the centuries, which musical occaision might we choose to attend? Surely a soiree at Rossini's Parisian home would be high on anyone's list. Some of the famous singers of the day would be performing, and the guest-list would read like a who's who of the French captial at that time. And of course, there'd be the chance to hear something new by the great master himself. For though he abandoned operatic ...             Monteverdi - L'Incoronazione di Poppea / Delunsch, von Otter, Brunet, Hellekant, Fouchécourt, Sedov, Les ...2 reviews Marc Minkowski, Anne Sophie von Otter Bel Air Classiques, 2006 The most petulant Nerone teams up with the most sensuously determined Poppea L'Incoronazione di Poppea is a remarkable opera - long one of my favourites, and an undoubted masterpiece. Its liveliness, its strongly character-filled plot, its gorgeous music, its sense of sardonic irony, its structural mastery make it an opera that reflects the full maturity of Claudio Monteverdi, who wrote this opera very late in his life. I own several DVDs of the opera: the sumptuous ...             Mozart - Don Giovanni3 reviews Peter Mattei, Gilles Cachemaille Bel Air Classiques, 2007 An amazing performance Since the memorable Giulini's version recorded in 1961, I had never heard a so well balanced production of Mozart's best opera. The title role is wonderfully performed by the acclaimed Swedish baritone Peter Mattei, who has revealed as one of the best gifted Dons in modern times, maybe with the exception of Thomas Hampson. The warmth of his voice and his subtleness to declaim the recitatives ...             Gluck - Iphigénie en Tauride / Delunsch · Keenlyside · Beuron · Naouri · Cousin · Les Musiciens du Louvre · ...3 reviews Christoph Willibald Gluck, Marc Minkowski, ... Archiv Prod Import, 2001 the ultimate recording Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre have done it again : there are few baroque ensembles who are able to bring so much life in a recording. Thanks to outstanding singing, playing and directing, this recording of Gluck's masterpiece (his best opera if you ask me !) is truly a theatre experience. This is much better than anything recorded before : the Muti/Scala Sony recording with Vaness was ...             Rameau - Hippolyte et Aricie / Padmore, Panzarella, Hunt, Naouri, E. James, Petibon, Mechaly, Delunsch, Les ...7 reviews Jean-Philippe Rameau, William Christie, ... Erato / Warner Music, 1997 This is the one to have As you know, there are two historically informed recordings of Hippolyte: the Minkowski and the Christie. There is also an older recording (not a period performance) with Janet Baker and John Shirley-Quirk, but that one's been out of print for years. I also have a CD in which the great Placido Domingo bellows Ah! Faut-il, but I will spare you my complaints about how "inauthentic" it sounds. ...             Varèse: The Complete Works22 reviews Edgard Varese, Riccardo Chailly, ... London / Decca, 1998 Superb with just one reservation This complete works of Varèse, superbly performed and recorded, is a fine accomplishment. My only disappointment was its version of Poème Elèctronique being the sole representation of that ground-breaking work that still holds up for me today as one of the finest pieces of electronic music yet created. It is interesting to be able to hear the version in this collection, which appears to be a ...             Rameau - Platee / Agnew, Delunsch, Beuron, Naouri, Le Texier, Lamprecht, Minkowski, Paris Opera17 reviews Paul Agnew, Marc Minkowski Kultur Video, 2004 Rameau = Musical Joy! While I am not generally enthusiastic about "moderne" updates of baroque works, there's something about Rameau that really lends itself to contemporary re-thinking; maybe it's the sheer sense of JOY and humanity of the music that makes it work. This production of Platee is marvelous--- the conducting, playing and (most of the) singing are first-rate. And, most important to this type of ...             Rameau - Dardanus / Ainsley, Gens, Naouri, Delunsch, Courtis, Kozena, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Minkowski6 reviews Jean-Philippe Rameau, Marc Minkowski, ... Archiv Produktion, 2000 Vrai Francais... Rameau, Dardanus. This superb recording should please both those who consider themselves "Ramistes" and those who simply enjoy pre - 19th century music. Previous recordings of Rameau have always seemed to me to be rather dull, but this one is full of energy and commitment and directed with flair. The cast is generally a good one, and in the case of the eponymous hero, sublime, and Minkowski ...             Gluck - Armide / Delunsch, Workman, Naouri, Podles, Beuron, Polegato, Kozená, Les Musiciens du Louvre, ...8 reviews Christoph Willibald Gluck, Mireille Delunsch, ... Archiv Prod Import, 1999 Gluck's Armide To modern music lovers, Gluck is best-known for his Orpheus and Euridice and, to a lesser extent, for Alceste. But he was also the composer of other operas which deserve to be remembered. Among these operas is Armide, which Gluck composed in 1777 for the Paris Opera. (By that time, he had revised his earlier versions of Orpheus and Alceste for staging in Paris.) In setting Armide, Gluck took ...             Lully - Acis & Galatée / Fouchécourt, Gens, Naouri, Crook, Delunsch, Felix, Masset, Les Musiciens du Louvre, ...3 reviews Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marc Minkowski, ... Archiv Produktion, 2006 Perfect, cold Lully-fricassee Jean-Baptiste Lully (né Giovanni Baptista,1632-1687) has the honor of belonging to the vast group of non-French who, for their time, set the very idiom of "French" music (Eric Satie is a more current example). Lully, and his party of "Lullistes," advocated a priority of text over music, or let us say rather than the one was not permitted to obfuscate the other. Minkowski's recording -himself ...             Berlioz - Nuits d'été · Herminie / Balleys · Delunsch · Herreweghe7 reviews Hector Berlioz, Philippe Herreweghe, ... Harmonia Mundi Fr., 1995 a gout for berlioz Now thats the way to do it: thoughtful, musical, flowing. Brigitte Ballyes scores (along with my other 2 favourites in this, von Otter and Crespin, still classic) in having not-such-a-great voice, but keen diction, a sense of the text and emotional resources (I nearly cried hearing Sur les Lagunes). Herreweghe is most sympathetic and attentive. The orchestral sonorities are ear-pricking. The ...             Le Triomphe de l'Amour (LULLY ou le Musicien du Soleil, Vol. V) Jean-Baptiste Lully, Hugo Reyne, ... Accord (Universal Classics), 2003             Boieldieu - La Dame blanche / Blake, Massis, Delunsch, Fouchécourt, Naouri, Brunet, Minkowski1 review François Adrien Boieldieu, Marc Minkowski, ... Angel Records, 2001 "Viens, gentille dame..." "Down with 'La Dame Blanche!'" was the rallying cry of Georges Bizet as he set to work on "Carmen", infuriated with the immense popularity of Boieldieu's opera and all the musical values it stood for. One of the biggest operatic successes of the 19th century (it clocked up 1669 performances in the hundred years that followed its premiere in 1825), "La Dame Blanche" has now virtually disappeared, ...             Ravel - Cantates de Rome / Gens · Beuron · Tézier - Delunsch · Uria-Monzon · Groves · Amsellem · Barrard · ... Maurice Ravel, Michel Plasson, ... EMI Classical, 2001             Duparc - Complete Songs / Delunsch, Le Texier1 review Henri Duparc, Mireille Delunsch, ... Timpani, 2000 Duparc's Seventeen Songs... . M. E. H. Fouques-Duparc was a native Parisian, born in the Year of Revolutions (1848). He lived to be an old man of eighty-five years of age, but during his last fifty years wrote no music. His fame therefore rests on a veritable handful of mélodies written in his youth: generally they are held to be the finest French songs produced before Fauré's artistic maturity (c.1884). . Duparc had ...             Louis Vierne: Mélodies, Vol. 21 review Louis Vierne, François Kerdoncuff, ... Timpani, 2005 Powerful performances of neglected repertoire This is a sequel to the first volume of Vierne's songs that these performers recorded in 1997. The balance between the introspective songs dealing with bleak desolation and the extrovert pieces evoking torment and bitter anger (whirlwinds, sea-storms etc) remains about the same as in Volume 1. Vierne goes in for extremes and there's not much gaiety in his choice of poems to set, though the first ...             Verdi - La Traviata4 reviews Mireille Delunsch, Matthew Polenzani Bel Air Classiques, 2007 Five stars are simply not enough - the most moving Traviata I've ever seen This is an astonishing DVD. It brings home to me as never before just how fragile Violetta's hold on life is, and how fragile her entire life and her possibility of happiness is. The events of her life have placed her in a situation of emotional and societal vulnerability, and the amazing performances and the utterly remarkable directing here highlight this without ever transgressing Verdi's ...             French Cantatas Thierry Felix, Francois Collin de Blamont, ... Archiv Produktion, 2002             Gluck - Orphée et Eurydice4 reviews Christoph Willibald Gluck, Les Musiciens du Louvre, ... Archiv Prod Import, 2004 At last! Gluck's "Paris version" of his most well-known work has been much maligned. Most mavens of "early music" and baroque opera (including Gardiner, Jacobs, et. al.) have a definitite preference for the original, Vienna version (with reason), and when the French version is performed at all it is usually the Berlioz revision that we hear, which is quite different from Gluck's "original". I can ...             Britten - Turn of the Screw1 review Mireille Delunsch, Hanna Schaer Bel Air Classiques, 2007 Spare, Chilling Britten This DVD of the Aix-en-Provence production is very satisfactory, both musically and dramatically. The direction is intelligent, the design elegant and simple; the small stage and spare visual effects manage to create some really hair-raising images. Any version of this opera rests primarily on its female lead, and Mireille Delunsch doesn't disappoint. Her musicianship and acting are exemplary; ...              search for classical music aix-en-provence, amsellem, boieldieu, cantatas, cantates, christie, complete, dardanus, delunsch, eurydice, festival, florissants, fouchécourt, hellekant, herminie, herreweghe, hippolyte, incoronazione, iphigénie, keenlyside, lamprecht, minkowski, monteverdi, musiciens, mélodies, panzarella, polegato, provence, traviata, uria-monzon classical music:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Modern Rules of Personal Finance for Professionals we recommend a gout for berlioz home  impressum - about us