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Pierre Dumoussaud, Chœur et Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie, Violette Polchi – Offenbach: Le voyage dans la lune (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:30:19 minutes | 2,69 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bru Zane
Jules Verne was the inspiration for Offenbach’s opéra-féerie, premiered in 1875. The Parisian craze for this type of musical extravaganza stemmed from its impressive stage effects: for Le Voyage dans la Lune, two ballets and some twenty sets took the audience from the Earth to the Moon, successively recreating the Paris Observatory, a working blast furnace and the crater of an erupting volcano. The piece is studded with zany characters and imaginary places: a lunar landscape, a glass palace, mother-of-pearl galleries, etc. The producers even borrowed a dromedary and an ostrich from the zoo at the Jardin d’Acclimatation! To accompany this theatrical display, Offenbach composed a series of colourful, picturesque hit numbers, wittily and energetically performed here by a team of enthusiastic soloists.The Chœur et Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie are placed under the subtle and precise direction of Pierre Dumoussaud.
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Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Pierre Dumoussaud – Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:28:36 minutes | 2,39 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
The Covid pandemic caused the cancellation of the performances of Pell’eas et M’elisande at the Op’era National de Bordeaux, which approached Alpha in order to make an audio recording of this masterpiece. So here is that unexpected but highly anticipated new version, with an exceptional cast and a young conductor, Pierre Dumoussaud, whose calling card it is fast becoming, since he has already conducted it in many houses. ‘His conducting calls for nothing but praise, striking a fine balance between analytical clarity and theatrical life, while at the same time bringing out the extraordinary modernity of this intoxicating music’, wrote Christian Merlin in Le Figaro of one of his staged performances. The ‘disarming sincerity’ of Pell’eas (Stanislas de Barbeyrac), the ‘constant emotion’ of M’elisande (Chiara Skerath), the ‘bitingly intense singing’ of Golaud (Alexandre Duhamel) – these are some of the comments elicited by the 2018 performances in the staging of Philippe B’eziat and Florent Siaud, the intended revival of which this year was prevented by the health emergency. The album cover features a photo from that memorable production.
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Cyrille Dubois, Orchestre National de Lille & Pierre Dumoussaud – So Romantique ! (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:44 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
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‘So Romantique !’ illustrates the ‘profoundly sentimental’ side of French opera from the 1830s to the 1900s, which gradually came to be judged overwrought and was condemned to partial oblivion. ‘I am convinced that this is because the principals of interpretation were lost’, says the tenor Cyrille Dubois. ‘I have therefore put together this programme, which gives pride of place to rarities while highlighting the theatrical character and the use of registers so emblematic of the French ténor de grâce , in the hope of restoring this precious French heritage to its former glory.’ The sleuthing skills of the Palazzetto Bru Zane have assembled these treasures by Bizet, Gounod, Saint-Saëns, Auber, Halévy, Donizetti, Thomas and Delibes, the less well-known Godard, Dubois and Silver, and the virtually unknown Luce-Varlet and Clapisson. With the Orchestre National de Lille conducted by Pierre Dumoussaud, the French tenor deploys the full range of his artistry, the impressive high notes, the luminous tone and the graceful phrasing that is ‘so Cyrille’!
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