Pelléas et Mélisande (Intro)
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@Normk43 the pic looks very preraphaelic doesn' it?
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Pour moi c'est Désormière la meilleure version...
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love is on its way......
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and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - much as they obviously leave things to be desired in comparison to either the Berliner or Wiener Philharmoniker!!! - does a very fine job.
[By the mention of Domingo, I'm simply trying to underline what I feel could be done by a real tenor. It's not to put Maurane down at all: the trouble is that with even a light baritone like Maurane (borderline towards tenor but not quite), the high notes get somewhat strangled, not a goot thing!...]
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@billyguns2: Well said about the engineers!! Also, Ansermet's reading has a lot of poetry (which he was aiming for in comparison to his first [mono} reading where the drama was paramount). Were it not for Rosine Brédy being cast as Yniold plus a few things being more convincing with Karajan, this could have been my favourite recording too: all the other singers are really good (though I really wish for a genuine tenor in the rôle of Pelléas - it would be something to hear Domingo in it!),
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This IS a great performance of this wonderful opera, which I have on vinyl. It would be interesting to have heard Ansermet's good friend's (Toscanini) Italian premier performance of the opera back in 1906 or so1
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If you only heard this on VINYL you'd really know what yer talking about,
This is my favorite recording of PELLEAS, and it also happens to have the best sound. Those Decca engineers in the 1960s were the best in the world! I adore this opera; I have eleven recordings of it!
billyguns2 2 years ago 9
Great photo of Mary Garden as Melsande as well. Does anyone know if she wore a wig for the part or did she use her own hair. Maeterlinck apparently thought his wife was the ideal person for the role but Debussy chose Garden instead.
Normk43 2 years ago