~ Pietro Mascagni
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~ Hector Berlioz
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~ Juan Diego Flórez
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~ Roberto Alagna
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Track Listings
| 1. Maitre Pathelin: Act 1. Romance: Je Pense A Vous |
| 2. Le Cid: Act 3: Ah! Tout Est Bien Fini!... O Souverain, O Juge, O Pere |
| 3. Les Abencerages: Act 2. Recitatif Et Air: Suspendez A Ces Murs... J'ai Vu Disparaitre L'espoir |
| 4. Mireille: Act 3. Cavatine: Mon Coeur Est Plein D'un Noir Souci... Anges Du Paradis |
| 5. L'Amant Jaloux: Act 2. Ser: Tandis Que Tout Sommeille |
| 6. La Juive: Act 4. Air: Rachel, Quand Du Seigneur |
| 7. Mignon: Act 3. Romance: Elle Ne Croyait Pas, Dans Sa Candeur Naive |
| 8. L'Africaine: Act 4: Pays Merveilleux |
| 9. La Damnation De Faust: Part 4, Scene XVI. Invocation A La Nature: Nature Immense |
| 10. Iphigenie En Tauride: Act 2. Recitatif Et Air: Quel Langage Accablant... Unis Des La Plus Tendre... |
| 11. Les Pecheurs De Perles: Act 1. Recitatif Et Romance: A Cette Voix Quel Trouble Agitait Tout Mon... |
| 12. Le Roi D'ys: Act 3. Puisqu'on Ne Peut Flechir... Vainement, Ma Bien-aimee |
| 13. Joseph: Act 1. Recitatif Et Air: Vainement Pharaon Dans Sa Reconnaissance... Champs Paternals |
| 14. Samson Et Dalila: Act 3: Vois Ma Misere, Helas! |
| 15. L'Attaque Du Moulin: Act 2: Le Jour Tombe, La Nuit Va Bercer Les Grands Chenes |
On this CD:
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Maître Pathelin
Composed by Francois Bazin
with Roberto Alagna
Conducted by Bertrand de Billy
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La damnation de Faust
Composed by Hector Berlioz
with Roberto Alagna
Conducted by Bertrand de Billy
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Les pêcheurs de perles
Composed by Georges Bizet
with Roberto Alagna
Conducted by Bertrand de Billy
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(L')Attaque du Moulin
Composed by Alfred Bruneau
with Roberto Alagna
Conducted by Bertrand de Billy
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(Les) Abencérages
Composed by Luigi Cherubini
with Roberto Alagna
Conducted by Bertrand de Billy
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Iphigénie en Tauride
Composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck
with Roberto Alagna
Conducted by Bertrand de Billy
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Mireille
Composed by Charles Gounod
with Roberto Alagna
Conducted by Bertrand de Billy
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(Les) Fausses apparences ou L'amant jaloux
Composed by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry
with Roberto Alagna
Conducted by Bertrand de Billy
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(La) Juive
Composed by Fromental Halévy
with Roberto Alagna
Conducted by Bertrand de Billy
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(Le) Roi d'Ys
Composed by Edouard Lalo
with Roberto Alagna
Conducted by Bertrand de Billy
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Joseph
Composed by Nicholas Etienne Méhul
with Roberto Alagna
Conducted by Bertrand de Billy
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(L')Africaine, '(The) African Maid'
Composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer
with Roberto Alagna
Conducted by Bertrand de Billy
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(Le) Cid
Composed by Jules Massenet
with Roberto Alagna
Conducted by Bertrand de Billy
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Samson et Dalila
Composed by Camille Saint-Saëns
Performed by London Voices
with Roberto Alagna
Conducted by Bertrand de Billy
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Mignon
Composed by Ambroise Thomas
with Roberto Alagna
Conducted by Bertrand de Billy
Product Description
BBC Music Magazine
The 'supertenor' Roberto Alagna is testing not just himself but his audience with this recital of arias from mostly obscure and in some cases justly neglected French operas: Gretry's tiresome L'amant jaloux; Mehul's Joseph, Bruneau's L'attaque du Moulin. Even the booklet cannot summon much enthusiasm for Bazin's mediocre Maître Pathelin, from which the disc's opening number comes, dismissing it as an opera comique containing 'some moderately charming and amusing numbers' (I'm not convinced 'Je pense à vous quand je m'eveille' counts as either). And even a singer as lauded and capable as Alagna is challenged (and found wanting) in his efforts to make a case for them.
The 'supertenor' Roberto Alagna is testing not just himself but his audience with this recital of arias from mostly obscure and in some cases justly neglected French operas: Gretry's tiresome L'amant jaloux; Mehul's Joseph, Bruneau's L'attaque du Moulin. Even the booklet cannot summon much enthusiasm for Bazin's mediocre Maître Pathelin, from which the disc's opening number comes, dismissing it as an opera comique containing 'some moderately charming and amusing numbers' (I'm not convinced 'Je pense à vous quand je m'eveille' counts as either). And even a singer as lauded and capable as Alagna is challenged (and found wanting) in his efforts to make a case for them.
But give him something good to sing, and the results are sensational: his voice burnished, seamlessly modulated and thrillingly expressive. Among the highlights here are an invigorating 'Unis des la plus tendre enfance' from Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride, poignant in its nobility and thrillingly impassioned; the delightful Breton-influenced aubade 'Vainement, ma bien-aimee' from Lalo's Le roi d'Ys; a tormented, emotive 'Vois ma misere', from Saint-Saens's Samson et Dalila; and a rapturous 'Je crois entendre encore' from Les pêcheurs de perles, with its taxing mezza voce high Bs à point. Best of all, though, is his towering account of 'Nature immense, impenetrable et fiere' from Berlioz's Damnation de Faust.
Performance ****
Sound ****
© BBC Music Magazine 2001
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