Isabelle Aubret 96 [Import]

Product Description
French Singer who Won the Eurovision Contest in 1962. This Album Includes 'excusez-moi' 'amazonie' and Others

Isabelle Aubret 96,Isabelle Aubret,Olivi

Average customer rating: a fantastic new French opera!

Pascal Dusapin: Perelà, Uomo di Fumo Manufacturer: Disques Montaigne ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Pascal Dusapin: Concertos - Watt, Galim, Celo Tristan Murail: Gondwana; Désintégrations; Time and Again Dusapin - Faustus, The Last Night Dalbavie: Color The Matchstick Man / The Seventh Door - Two films on Gyorgy Kurtag and Peter Eotvos ASIN: B0007DAXUC Release Date: 2005-03-22

Customer Reviews:

a fantastic new French opera!.......2005-06-22

I use the term fantastic advisedly, because Dusapin's opera is of very high quality, but the fable it tells is fantastic and phantasmagorical as well. PERELA: UOMO DI FUMO is based on the novel "Il codice Perela," by an Italian futurist, Aldo Pallazzeschi, which was published in 1911. The Man of Smoke simply appears one day, and proceeds to cause a sensation. The outline of the story is as follows: "his appearance, his encounter with the people and the notables, his providential designation to draw up the Code (of which we learn nothing), his accusation, trial and condemnation, and finally his return to his original state" (from Antoine Gindt's liner notes).

Unlike many modern operas, Dusapin has written a work with powerful, moving arias, a linear easy-to-follow story, and based on the black-and-white photos in the booklet, stunning costumes and stage design as well. Tenor John Graham-Hall as Perela is terrific throughout, making the cipher of a character much more compelling and sympathetic than the libretto along would lead you to expect, and mezzo-soprano Nora Gibisch as "the love interest," La Marquise Oliva de Bellonda, is superb as well, and has the best arias in the score. There is much comedy and satire, mocking the powerful in the form of a Banker and an Archbishop, among others (similar to Ligeti's LE GRAND MACABRE -- see my review), but PERELA is mainly a tragic work. The central character is an innocent, and there is a clear parallel to Christ in his persecution. Dusapin's music, of course, is what mainly conveys the tragic mood. The orchestral component is quite well-done, though in general I find opera frustratingly episodic as compared to the development and structure found in great symphonies and string quartets.

Personally I find it very dissatisfying to only *listen* to opera. For me, the form is so fundamentally visual and dramatic that it just doesn't work as well as other forms of classical music for daily listening. However, I am giving PERELA a full 5 stars because it works so much better than most modern operas. If you follow the libretto, and picture the players based on the photos, huge, outrageous and grotesque, the music gains weight and stature. The recording was made of a live performance in May 2003, but there is virtually no audience noise. What it all means I don't know, but Dusapin has certainly found a vehicle for some rich, evocative music with strong elements of social satire and metaphysical musing.

Naive's packaging is exemplary, though unnecessarily bulky -- the jewel-case for the 2 discs is not a slimline, and the booklet is separate -- both are contained in a box. The booklet is extensive (97 pages), and includes an interview with Dusapin, the entire libretto in Italian, French and English (which is particularly useful for direct translation from the Italian to English while listening), and detailed information on the performers.

See my recent reviews of Ligeti's LE GRAND MACABRE, Rihm's DIE EROBERUNG VON MEXICO (The Conquest of Mexoco) and Lachenmann's DAS MADCHEN MIT DEN SCHWEFELHOZERN (The Little Match Girl) for modern operas that range from less to much less compelling than PERELA.

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Mozart: Trilogie Da Ponte Manufacturer: Astree ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Flute | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music | Cantatas | Romances German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000024JRK Release Date: 1996-01-01

Tracks:

1. Premier Divertissement Chinois: Harmonie Des Vents Qi Soufflent Par Devant/Faconner Les Branches...
2. Son I in A: Adagio
3. Son I in A: Allegro
4. Son I in A: Largo
5. Son I in A: Adagio
6. Son I in A: Allegro
7. Premier Divertissement Chinois: Publication De La Victoire/Crochet A Suspendare Les Pierres De Yu
8. Son VIII in B flat: Grave
9. Son VIII in B flat: Vivace
10. Son VIII in B flat: Adagio
11. Son VIII in B flat: Baletto Allegro
12. Son VIII in B flat: Allegro
13. Troisieme Divertissement Chinois: L'Arrive Du Printemps
14. Son IV in g: Grave
15. Son IV in g: Cantabile
16. Son IV in g: Allegro
17. Son IV in g: Grave E Arcate Lunghe
18. Son IV in g: Allegro
19. Deuxieme Divertissement Chinois: Chant De L'Hirondell Dans Son Passage/Le Mouton Sur Le Penchant...
20. Son X in c: Preludio
21. Son X in c: Corrente Andante
22. Son X in c: Grave
23. Son X in c: Sarabanda Vivace
24. Son X in c: Minuetto Allegro
25. Son X in c: Adagio
26. Son X in c: Giga Allegro
27. Troisieme Divertissement Chinois: Piece De Soie A L'Imitation Des Feuilles De Saule
28. Son V in G: Largo
29. Son V in G: Allegro
30. Son V in G: Vivace
31. Son V in G: Allegro
32. Son V in G: Adagio
33. Son V in G: Allegro

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Mozart: Trilogie Da Ponte Manufacturer: Astree ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Flute | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music | Cantatas | Romances German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Opera & Vocal | Box Sets | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000017ON Release Date: 1997-01-10

Amazon.com

Common casting and a true ensemble sensibility distinguish these studio performances, based upon a live, cyclical production of the three Mozart/Da Ponte operas. Jean-Claude Malgoire may not boast superstar singers or a virtuoso period band on par with William Christie, John Eliot Gardiner or Arnold Östman, yet the synergy between pit and stage leaps through your speakers. While the close, intimate miking results in loopy balances, the listener invariably gets swept up in the action, eavesdropping from an invisible mark onstage. If you have yet to acquire these operas on CD, the eight-for-the-price-of-four price tag is too good to pass up. But beware: no texts or translations are included. --Jed Distler

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Mozart: Trilogie Da Ponte Manufacturer: Astree ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Flute | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music | Cantatas | Romances German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B0006U6Q8Y Release Date: 1996-01-01

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