Régine Crespin-"Le Spectre de la Rose"- Nuits d'été

[luisrvigil]

La seule chose que devoile la "antiquité"de ce enregistrement est sa profondeur.

[illfurter]

Il y a si longtemps de ça !!! mais je crois me souvenir que c'était à l'occasion d'une représentation des " Troyens " à l'Opéra Garnier. J'ai eu honte pour mes compatriotes!

[amadeusforever1]

La meilleure interprétation que j'aie jamais écoutée... Tout est sublime....

 Quant à La grandissime Régine Crespin, elle frôle ici le divin.....

C'est un pur moment de grâce, inégalé, et inégalable.....

[66Lanski]

interprétation d'anthologie.

[otacs2]

She looks like an aristocrat! Mesmerizing!

[dapheneo]

A ce moment la : la plus belle voix du monde.

Une artiste hors du commun.

Ne pas oublier la plus belle Brunhilde du disque ( et du live : Salzbourg )

[Chekenbois]

La leçon de chant.

[forgeronBlancard]

She is wonderful but it sounds/looks like a playback to the Ansermet studio recording.

[forgeronBlancard]

She is wonderful but it sounds/looks like a playback to the Ansermet studio fecording.

[sdegrace]

Somptueux, magnifique, chaleureux et d'une grâce et finesse.... la grande chanteuse. Et la voir chanter, c'est très beau! Merci!

[papidou1934]

@sdegrace ...merci pour ce partage de cette interprétation magnifique...une référence.

[robertdonkers]

The very best Le sectre de la Rose ever. For me, no other singer comes close eventhough there are some very good ones.

[LohengrinT]

@robertdonkers

I agree... I havent heard anyone who sings this with so much detail and musicality as Crespin does here. Absolute reference of this most beautiful ingenious song

[fortissimo25]

a very gentle approach to this piece indeed - quite lovely

[baltoman24]

Crespin also recorded this with Ansermet for London-Decca in the early sixties.... all of the Nuit d'ete and Ravel's Scheherezade.... some of the most ravishing singing ever recorded. I remember seeing her on stage in recital ca. 1967 and in the incandescent Werther at the Met (with Corelli!) in 1970! This is a glory- thank you!

[stevevandien]

A great singer and an incredibly sexy woman. Rest in peace, cher Regine --

[serenaluce]

It's a pity that the quality of the recording is so poor , but she sounds just great! Very, very beautiful! Brava!

[KILLERADVICE]

Inégalable Crespin : peut-on imaginer plus parfaite adéquation entre un musicien, une pièce musicale et une interprète idéale ? il suffit d'écouter Madame Crespin et l'on comprend que cela peut arriver. Que Ravel n'aime pas Berlioz, est un grand compliment: Berlioz, lui, est un génie avéré...

[Toscavsky]

Ninguna versión de esta canción me ha emocionado tanto como esta. Aquí Régine es etérea, melancólica...como el espectro de una rosa...

[AlfredoKraus]

Grande, grande, grande! La mejor versión que haya escuchado de esta melodie.

[AulicExclusiva]

The text enunciated simply and with complete expressivity, the phrasing full of fantasy and rêverie, without alien emphases. Magique et magnifique.

[meltzerboy]

I couldn't agree more!

[illfurter]

Quand je pense qu'on a osé siffler à Paris , Madame Crespin!! Honte au public français. Heureusement l'histoire replace les vraies chanteuses à leur juste place

[amadeusforever1]

@illfurter PAs possible??? je ne savais pas! A quelle occasion, ces cons de snobs parisiens ont-ils osé siffler une si grande chanteuse!! ??? (c'est du acisme anti sud çà !! elle était née en paca!!)

[smudgepots]

Thank you for the kind information both astrasburgo and crespinforever5. I have her Wesendonck Lieder on EMI ASD White/Gold early stereo LP - it's exquisite! I also have the Ansermet Wideband FFSS London Nuits. If you are not aware of it, try the Telemann Stich-Randall clip from Rolf in the Netherlands on YouTube for equally ravishing singing.

[smudgepots]

There's a better performance and recording which was available for a while on YouTube. Does anyone know if it is comercially available? A taste is still available on the Soirée Hommage Regine Crespin YouTube clip.

[astrasburgo]

yes , you can find it in a superb DVD from EMI named "Régine Crespin". you can see crespin singing between 1965 and 1972, damnation de faust, spectre de la rose, les Troyens and in liderabende ( Schubert,schumann, Roussel, poulenc, Duparc,Ravel) etc....

[crespinforever5]

crespin sang the song " le spectre de la rose" 3 times for the french TV, this one in 64, an another in 65-yes this one available one time on You Tube - in white and black and the last in color in 1974 under Jean Périsson

[janissim0]

@crespinforever5 Do you have links? I can't seem to find them.

[Haendelful]

Mais ne crains rien, je ne réclame Ni messe, ni De Profundis ; Ce léger parfum est mon âme Et jarrive du paradis. Mon destin fut digne denvie : Pour avoir un trépas si beau, Plus dun aurait donné sa vie, Car jai ta gorge pour tombeau, Et sur lalbâtre où je repose Un poète avec un baiser Ecrivit : Ci-gît une rose Que tous les rois vont jalouser Theophile Gauthier (1811-1872)

[AulicExclusiva]

Théophile Gautier

[Haendelful]

Soulève ta paupière close Queffleure un songe virginal ; Je suis le spectre dune rose Que tu portais hier au bal. Tu me pris encore emperlée Des pleurs dargent de larrosoir, Et parmi la fête étoilée Tu me promenas tout le soir. Ô toi qui de ma mort fus cause, Sans que tu puisses le chasser Toute la nuit mon spectre rose A ton chevet viendra danser.

[iheartunotreally]

:) lovely

[palmerse]

This is my favorite vocal performance of all time! It's hard to imagine how it could be improved (except for the sound quality). I especially love the ethereal and lyric quality of her singing, which is beautifully emotional without being operatic. There are moments when she floats high pianissimo notes in a way that almost shimmers with an other-wordly quality. I've heard a lot of recordings of this piece because I like it so much, but this one is head-and-shoulders above the rest.

[paulostroff99]

Very beautifully sung! Brava! TY

[Stefnir95]

very sweet and subtle.

[philipc67]

It's very subtle, but in this film she does a lip-sync from her famous 1967 recording. She sings like a siren. Hers remains the DEFINITIVE interpretation of this magnificent song, unbearably beautiful.

[Lohengrin]

yes i could tell from sec 1 she does lip-synch... do I mind? no! First because vocally what she does here is simply Divine and secondly because we see all these magnificent gestures-facial expressions that make this performance so unbelievably unique...

[PIPZZZ02]

God this is heaven- I watch it and my heart thumps against my ribs- not too many artists can make that happen.

Grade A magic start to finish.

[99Isher]

Merci :) A mon avis, c'est Janet Baker l'alternative musicale la plus belle à Crespin. Baker est la "narration": elle donne les contrastes, les ruptures, replonge le texte dans une histoire avec ses "avant" et ses "après". Son interprétation est superbe. Mais seule Crespin est capable de faire sentir que dans ce texte tout vient vraiment de loin, d'un passé éternisé (c'est ça "le spectre" d'une rose). Elle chante au passé. Et avec quelle douceur!

[rbpenelope2008]

Oh...99Isher, il est vraiment ce que je pense aussi! Cependant Crespin est exagérément impersonnel,trop souriant, presque à sembler lobotomisiée...Pour la perfection il aurait du habiller une patine de melancolie!

[99Isher]

Peut-etre la mélanconie lui manque, tu as raison. Mais je ne dirais pas qu'elle est lobotomisée! Elle n'est pas impersonnelle, elle est vraie, et a une grande mesure...En tout cas, dans son genre, c'est une interprétation modèle, c'est ça ce que je voulais dire...

[rbpenelope2008]

E dici molto bene,grazie,e ti capisco... Ma mi domandavo come sia possibile riportare a galla zone profonde e vaste della memoria senza che intervenga un' emozione. Forse non è il risultato di una lobotomia ma di una "memoria involontaria": vede lo spettro della rosa, ma non ne percepisce il profumo...

Peccato, perché la voce è bellissima!

[rbpenelope2008]

Io invece... proprio senza cervello: rileggo e scopro che ho scritto " involontaria" mentre pensavo " volontaria"...forse così mi capisci un po' di più...

[99Isher]

Capisco quel che vuoi dire, e ci penserò. Per me Crespin non "vede" lo spettro della rosa, ma "è" (si pone come) lo spettro della rosa: per questo la sua non è una memoria volontaria, ma una memoria che ha subito un trauma e una separazione da quelle zone profonde di cui tu parli. Il testo è un'epigrafe funebre; la rosa prende la parola come morta: è nel restituire tutto ciò che Crespin è grandissima ("canta al passato", dicevo).

[rbpenelope2008]

Grazie per avermi illuminato! Avevo mal interpretato il testo...Quindi,se capisco,è un sogno... (ho letto ora la trama del balletto di Nijinsky,è uguale?). Allora tutto cambia e anche l' interpretazione è magistrale. Perciò non riflettere proprio sulle mie parole, perché sono fuori tema!

[AulicExclusiva]

The word SUBLIME comes to mind.

[99Isher]

This is incredibly beautiful. Thank you, Lohengrin, for sharing with me. Sa supériorité sur toutes les autres (que je connais), c'est qu'elle renonce complètement à la "narration" (avec ses inévitables petites ruptures, avec ses contrastes) : elle "dit" le texte, l'enveloppe de sa musique, sans aucun effort, et l'émotion est toute intérieure. L'homogénéité de sa voix est admirable.

[frenchyfrench]

Remarquable remarque :) C'est tout à fait ça. T.Gaultier et Berlioz sont là justement parce qu'elle n'impose aucun parasite. A l'opposé l'interpretation de J.Norman, sublime sans doute mais on entend seulement J Norman s'imposer. Ici ils sont bien 3. Le poete, le musicien et le chanteur en parfaite harmonie.

[PIPZZZ02]

An object lesson in style - and THRILLING.

[Lohengrin]

thank you so much for sending me this video (crespinforever5 for uploading it). I havent been moved so much for a long time :) This is referential recording of La Spectre

[Aetion]

Its great. Thank you, Lohengrin, for sharing with me.

[cantorandopera]

Thanks for sending this to me - I adore Ms Crespin - I think she had one of the most luscious voices ever - like velvety dark chocolate, or a vat of honey! She was a treat in every way. The charachter of her voice was hard to pidgeon-hole - she was just a GREAT singer - on the forever barometer. And add to that her complete artistry - mon dieu - quelle tresor!

[Lohengrin]

oh my God... I have already replayed it 5 times... this is a TREASURE

[Lohengrin]

this is incredibly beautiful...

the transitions between the top and the low register are remarkable and so well supported in the entire range

[jleeol]

yes who can match this? no one I've heard....Crespin seems the match.

[wolkowy1]

So so so beautiful.

[whywave]

for those of you who enjoy these NUITS D'ETE by Berlioz, i'm urging you to listen to the version recently recorded by argentinian mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink (who's enjoying a brilliant career in Europe since the last 15 years). She might be the only singer that can compare to Crespin in this "mélodies" cycle, so far (both for her vocal capacities, musical knowledge and pronunciation in french). A MUST !

[petersenms]

lookin for it thanks

[jhsmit]

Beautiful voice indeed. But I have the impression that one tends to believe there is only Crespin when it comes to Berlioz and Les nuits/Le spectre de la rose. Does one know the recording of Brigitte Balleys/Herreweghe here? (Tried to upload it, but did not succeed... perhaps someone else?) Now there you have the perfume of a rose in music, in my opinion.

[robertdonkers]

No other soprano, mezzo can sing it like Regine, the unachievable set. Wonderful

[frenchyfrench]

The miracle

[pietstamitz]

I know the Ansermet-performance, which, like this one,

is moving to tears.

Incredible music, incredible performance.

Something very special is happening here.

[DivaDeb1234]

I love Regine Crespin ...RIP....

She sings with the angels now...

She has the voice of an angel.

Her artistry is beautiful.

[Glenmed]

Ethereal

[CharlotteinWeimar]

Sumptuous