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Taped live at three performances (or a rehearsal or two?) in Paris in 2001, the drawing card here clearly is Renée Fleming’s Manon. For the
Conductor Albert Wolff’s photo on the cover of this first-rate, well-filled CD easily could be mistaken for that of a provincial French bank manager. Though
If you spent any time at all in hi-fi stores in the early-1970s you probably got an earful of Louis Frémaux’s EMI Massenet LP, especially
The “concept” here seems to be nothing more ambitious than creating an album that is “pretty”–and so it is in a very superficial sense. However,
This 70-plus-year-old recording has much to recommend it but still cannot be counted among the best or most alluring Manons on disc. Germaine Feraldy is
The world doesn’t need another recording of Werther, since so many terrific ones are available: the glorious 1931 Vallin-Thill set; Victoria de los Angeles still
This is a somewhat abridged version (omitting the whole of Act 3, scene 2; minor moments elsewhere–about 20 minutes total) of Massenet’s perfumed, gooey, mock-Oriental
The best thing about this September 16, 1954 concert is Thomas Beecham’s hilarious speech preceding the lovely encore performance of Massenet’s Last Sleep of the
Les Sylphides and La Boutique fantasque originated from commissions by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes after World War I. Based on an assortment of Chopin piano works,
Despite the “wrong” language (a French opera sung in Russian), an acidulous Sophie (a failing shared with too many other recorded Werthers), and dated sound,
