Kiri Te Kanawa, Jessye Norman, Daniel Barenboim - Hector Berlioz: Les Nuits d'ete, Op. 7; La Mort de Cleopatre (1982)
Hector Berlioz: Les Nuits d'été, Op. 7; La Mort de Cléopâtre (1982)
Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano; Jessye Norman, soprano
Orchestre de Paris; Daniel Barenboim, conductor
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 184 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 120 Mb | Scans ~ 58 Mb
Classical, Vocal | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 445 594-2 | Time: 00:52:19
Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano; Jessye Norman, soprano
Orchestre de Paris; Daniel Barenboim, conductor
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 184 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 120 Mb | Scans ~ 58 Mb
Classical, Vocal | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 445 594-2 | Time: 00:52:19
Kiri Te Kanawa does well by these songs, avoiding the billowing excesses of sentiment that in other hands (or vocal chords) can make them sound much too soggy. Although Berlioz gathered them all together under the present title, all of the songs were composed at different times for different singers, so they aren't really a cycle at all. I seldom listen to all of them at once, and you should feel free to take them in any order that suits you. "The Death of Cleopatra" is an early cantata that perfectly suits Jessye Norman's stately delivery. She's always at her best playing royalty, and if they're dying in mortal agony, so much the better.Review by David Hurwitz
This most beautiful of song-cycles (Les Nuits d'été) has been unusually fortunate on disc. It’s not really a song-cycle as such, given that the compilation of poems set to music is random in nature and the fact that it narrates no story other than delineating in general attitudes to love and loss. "…" I shall annoy some collectors by saying straightaway that while I love versions by Janet Baker, Kiri Te Kanawa, Jessye Norman, Eleanor Steber and Victoria de Los Angeles, I cannot live with Crespin’s famous account, which I find scratchily vocalised and too imperiously detached in interpretation. I know I am not alone in this; the eminent voice critic David Cairns in “Song on Record” expresses similar bewilderment that Crespin’s 1963 recording with Ernest Ansermet and L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande is so widely admired. "…" I find Te Kanawa’s version with Barenboim to be hugely under-rated. The usual lazy accusation that she is all lovely, luminous beauty of tone but expressionless simply does not stand up to an unbiased listening: she and Barenboim get just the right combination of tempo and phrasing to ensure the requisite lightness and insouciance in the notoriously tricky “Villanelle”. She deploys a rich lower register (which was not always present, but she worked hard at it), taking the low F-sharp option on “linceul” in “Sur les lagunes”. She really lives the anguish of “Absence” and assumes a wonderfully apt “child-voice” in “Au cimetière”.Review by Ralph Moore, MusicWeb-International
Kiri Te Kanawa, Jessye Norman, Daniel Barenboim - Hector Berlioz: Les Nuits d'ete, Op. 7; La Mort de Cleopatre (1982)
Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano
Jessye Norman, soprano
Orchestre de Paris
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Recording: Paris, Maison de la Mutualité, 4 & 6/1981
Tracklist:
Les Nuits d'été, Op. 7
poésies de de Théophile Gautier
01. Villanelle. Allegretto [2'09]
02. Le Spectre de la rose. Adagio un poco lento e dolce assai [6'32]
03. Sur les lagunes. Lamento. Andantino [6'03]
04. Absence. Adagio [5'38]
05. Au Cimetière. Andantino non troppo lento [5'30]
06. L'île inconnue. Allegro spiritoso [3'28]
La Mort de Cléopâtre
Scène lyrique
Poème de P. A. Vieillard
07. Allegro vivace con impeto — Recitativo — [3'13]
08. Lento cantabile — Recitativo — [7'20]
09. Méeditation. Largo misterioso — [5'08]
10. Allegro assai agitato — [3'06]
11. Moderato. Recitativo misurato [4' 10]
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Berlioz, Hector / Les Nuits d'ete & La Mort de Cleopatre - Kiri Te Kanawa - Jessye Norman
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Kiri Te Kanawa, Jessye Norman, Daniel Barenboim - Hector Berlioz: Les Nuits d'ete, Op. 7; La Mort de Cleopatre (1982)
Kiri Te Kanawa, Jessye Norman, Daniel Barenboim - Hector Berlioz: Les Nuits d'ete, Op. 7; La Mort de Cleopatre (1982)
