Edgard Doneux, Paul Strauss - Gretry: Zemiere et Azor, Danses Villageoises, Cephale et Procris (1990)
Edgard Doneux, Paul Strauss - Grétry: Zémiere et Azor, Danses Villageoises, Céphale et Procris (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 629 Mb | Total time: 73:45+70:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI | # CMS 69701 2 | Recorded: 1974, 1975
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 629 Mb | Total time: 73:45+70:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI | # CMS 69701 2 | Recorded: 1974, 1975
More or less contemporary with Mozart, Grétry wrote more than fifty quintessentially Classical operas which enjoyed phenomenal success during his lifetime (this one was produced as far afield as New York in 1787). On the basis of this recording, made in 1974 in Brussels (Grétry was born in Liège but was dead by the time the state of Belgium was created, making him an honorary, if not actual, famous Belgian), it seems a shame that his work – or this comic reworking of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ at any rate – has latterly been overlooked. The music, brightly performed by the Belgian Radio and Television Chamber Orchestra, is attractively melodic, if hardly profound, and the drama affords fantastical possibilities for an imaginative producer: a table decked with food appearing from nowhere, a magic moving picture in which the heroine watches her family after she has left them; and the transformation of the monstrous hero into a handsome young man. The chief attraction of this disc, however, is the casting of Mady Mesplé as the beauty Zémire. Her exemplary coloratura – ringingly clear and precise, if unnervingly fragile – is used to dazzling effect on the opera’s showstopper ‘La fauvetta avec ses petits’; and she is charming too, if a little passionless, in her ensemble pieces, especially the enchanting trio ‘Vieillons mes soeurs’ and her cheering closing scene with Roland Bufkens’s lyrical but ready and sometimes underpowered beast Azor.–Claire Wrathall
Performer:
Zémiere et Azor
Zémire – Madi Mesplé (soprano)
Azor – Roland Bufkens (tenor)
Sander – Jean Van Gorp (baryton)
Lisbé – Sabine Louis (soprano)
Ali – Jean-Claude Orliac (tenor)
Fatmé – Suzanne Simonka (mezzo-soprano)
Choeurs et Orchestre de Chambre de la R.T.B.
Direction - Edgard Doneux
Danses Villageoises/Cephale et Procris
Orchestre de Liege
Direction - Paul Strauss
Track List:
CD1:
Zemiere et Azor
01. Ouverture
02. Acte I. Recitatif: Quell etrange aventure (Sander, Ali)
03. Ariette: L'orage va cesser (Ali)
04. Recitatif: Que dis-tu? L'orage redouble (Sander, Ali)
05. Air: Le malheur me rend intrepide (Sander)
06. Recitatif: Oh! Ciel! (Ali, Sander)
07. Ariette: Les esprits dont on nous fait peur (Ali)
08. Duo: Le temps est beau (Sander, Ali)
09. Recitatif: Le ciel s'eclaire (Sander, Azor, Ali)
10. Air: La pauvre enfant (Sander)
11. Recitatif: J'ai l'aime assez compatissante (Azor, Sander, Ali)
12. Air: Ne va pas me tromper (Azor)
13. Final: Symphonie qui exprime le voi du nuage
14. Acte II. Trio: Veillons, mes soeurs (Zemire, Fatme, Lisbe)
15. Recitatif: Ah! mon pere (Zemire, Sander)
16. Ariette: Rose cherie (Zemire)
17. Recitatif: Ciel! Ou m'as-tu reduit? (Sander, Zemire)
18. Ariette: Plus de voyage qui me tente (Ali)
19. Recitatif: Ali, mon cher Ali (Zemire, Ali)
20. Duo: Je veux le voir (Zemire, Ali)
21. Entracte
22. Acte III. Air: Ah! quel tourment (Azor)
23. Recitatif: Ce bon pere (Azor, Ali, Zemire)
24. Duo: Rassure mon pere (Zemire, Ali)
25. Recitatif: Esclave, eloigne-toi! (Azor, Ali, Zemir)
26. Ballet: Entre des Genies qui rendent hommage a Zemir
27. Pantomime
28. Passepied
29. Recitatif: Ah! Revenez, Zemire (Azor, Zemire)
30. Ariette: Du moment qu'on aime (Azor)
CD2:
Zemier et Azor
01. Recitatif: Je ne puis revenir de mon etonnement (Zemire, Azor)
02. Air de la fauvette: La fauvette avec ses petits (Zemire)
03. Recitatif: Vos chants pour moi (Azor, Zemire)
04. Trio: Helas, mon pere (Fatme, Lisbe, Sander)
05. Recitatif: Ah! mon pere, Ah! cruel (Zemire, Azor)
06. Entracte
07. Acte IV. Recitatif: Quel malheur est le mien (Sander, Ali)
08. Ariette: J'an suis encore tremblant (Ali)
09. Recitatif: Ah! Ma fille (Sander, Zemire)
10. Quatuor: Ah! je tremble! (Zemire, Sander, Fatme, Lisbe)
11. Air: Le soleil s'est cache (Azor)
12. Air: Azor, Azor! En vain ma voix t'appelle (Zemire)
13. Recitatif: Zemire, Zemire! (Azor, Zemire)
14. Final: Amour, amour (Choeur des Genies)
Danses Villageoises
15. №1: Ballet rustique de Richard Coeur de Lion
16. № 2: Gavotte de Colinette a la Cour
17. № 3: Danse en rond de Colinette a la Cour
18. № 4: Danse des compagnes de la mariee
19. № 5: Gigue de l'Epreuve villageoise
20. № 6: Entracte de la Rosiere de Salency
21. № 7: Contredanse de l'Embarras des richesses
Cephale et Procris (Suite de ballet)
22. № 1: Tambourin
23. № 2: Menuetto
24. № 3: Gigue
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Edgard Doneux, Paul Strauss - Gretry: Zemiere et Azor, Danses Villageoises, Cephale et Procris (1990)
