More By Artist: Paris
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Jackie Paris
The Jackie Paris Sound [ CD ] |
GOUNOD / CHARPENTIER / MOZART / OFFENBACH / ROSSINI / etc
Janine Micheau - Operatic Recital Janine Micheau (soprano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Muir Mathieson, L´Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, Alberto Erede [ Decca Most Wanted Recitals Vol. 29 / CD - released 14/Jul/2014 ] A collection which celebrates the phenomenal career of this popular international soprano |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Don Carlos (complete opera [Five-act French version] recorded in 1996) José van Dam, Roberto Alagna, Karita Mattila, Thomas Hampson / Chœur du Théâtre du Châtelet, Orchestre de Paris, Antonio Pappano [ Warner Classics Home of Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2018 ] Don Carlos, one of Verdi's supreme achievements, received its premiere in Paris and this live recording from the city's Théâtre du Châtelet presents the original, five-act version of the opera. |
BACH / BRAHMS / HAYDN / GLUCK / TCHAIKOVSKY / MOZART / STRAVINSKY / etc
Pierre Monteux: Decca & Philips Recordings 1956-1964 London Symphony Orchestra / Wiener Philharmoniker / Paris Conservatoire Orchestra / Pierre Monteux (cond) [ Decca Original Masters / 7 CD - released 19/Sep/2006 ] Pierre Monteux was born in Paris on 4 April 1875. He began his studies at the Paris Conservatoire at the age of nine and first conducted in Paris at the age of twelve. In 1911 Monteux was appointed principal conductor of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes... |
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
Gluck: Orphee et Eurydice (Complete opera recorded in 2000) Theatre Musical de Paris / Magdalena Kozena, Madeline Bender, Patricia Petibon / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ Warner Classics DVD / DVD - released 10/Oct/2009 ] When the historic Theatre du Chatelet in Paris re-opened after a period of extensive refurbishment, the first two productions mounted in the theatre were Gluck's Alceste and Orphée et Eurydice. |
GIOCOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded in 1964/5) Maria Callas, Carlo Bergonzi, Tito Gobbi, Giorgio Tadeo / aris Conservatoire Orchestra, Paris Opera Chorus, Georges Prêtre [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 10/Nov/2014 ] Tosca was the role in which - in 1965, the year this recording was made - Callas gave her last complete performances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera and the Paris Opéra. This was her final complete recording of an... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded in 1964/5) Maria Callas, Carlo Bergonzi, Tito Gobbi, Giorgio Tadeo / Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Paris Opera Chorus, Georges Prêtre [ Warner Classics Legendary Opera Recordings / 2 CD Box Set - released 23/Sep/2016 ] This Tosca was Maria Callas's final studio recording of a complete opera. In 1965, 12 years after her first recording of the opera (made in Milan Victor de Sabata) she was reunited in Paris with the Scarpia of Tito Gobbi. Both singers bring new... |
GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Carmen (complete opera recorded in 1964) Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Andréa Guiot, Robert Massard, Nadine Sautereau / Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris, Georges Prêtre [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2015 ] Towards the end of Callas's career, there were many rumours that she was planning to perform Carmen on stage. This was never to be, but Carmen became her penultimate complete recording of an opera - and her only complete recording of a French opera.... |
PUCCINI / BELLINI / ROSSINI
Maria Callas: Toujours - Paris 1958 BLU-RAY Maria Callas (soprano) / Orchestra & Chorus of the Paris National Opera [ Warner Classics Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Nov/2015 ] This Blu-ray disc is part of a collection of three that gather together concert and stage performances from the latter phase of Callas's career, 1958-1964. These are the only professional video recordings of Callas in performance on stage. |
PUCCINI / BELLINI / ROSSINI / BIZET / VERDI / BELLINI / etc
Maria Callas: In Concert London, Hamburg & Paris BLU-RAY Maria Callas (soprano) / Orchestra & Chorus of the Paris National Opera, Symphonieorchester des NDR, Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Cove [ Warner Classics Blu-ray / 3 Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Sep/2017 ] Callas at Covent Garden (London 1962 & 1964) Callas in Concert (Hamburg 1959 & 1962) Toujours (Paris 1958) |
MOZART / BEETHOVEN / WEBER
Maria Callas: Mozart, Beethoven, Weber recital (1963-1964) Maria Callas (soprano) / Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Nicola Rescigno [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / CD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] This recital of Austro-German repertoire (albeit composed to Italian and English texts) was prompted by Callas's indignation on discovering that her EMI producer, Walter Legge, had chosen his wife, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, for a recording of the Verdi... |
VERDI
Verdi Arias III (1964-69) Maria Callas with Paris Conservatoire Orchestra & Paris Opéra Orchestra, Nicola Rescigno [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / CD - released 10/Nov/2014 ] 'I love these recordings: for Callas' command of line, of declamation, of rhythm, of dramatic and musical sense. Callas at her very finest!' (Gramophone) |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Violin Concertos / Solo Partita in D minor Yehudi Menuhin (violin) / Orchestre Symphonique de Paris, George Enescu [ Warner Classics Original Jacket Reissues / CD - released 21/Aug/2015 ] Bach's music was central to the life and career of Yehudi Menuhin, and the violinist is captured in his full early bloom in these performances from the 1930s. Joining the teenage Menuhin in the first and most celebrated of his four recordings of the... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Orchestral Music (Includes The Ride of the Valkyries and the Funeral Music from Gotterdammerung) Orchestre de Paris, Daniel Barenboim [ Deutsche Grammophon Virtuoso / CD - released 27/Oct/2011 ] "Barenboim keeps Wagner moving. The Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan find him ever ready to press ahead in stringendo...these are all warm and energetic performances." (Gramophone) |
NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Capriccio espagnol (recorded in 1960) Orchestre de Paris, Mstislav Rostropovich [ Warner Classics Original Jacket Reissues / CD - released 20/Apr/2016 ] "Setting Rostropovich, an impetuously Slavonic musician if ever there was one, in front of such an unmistakably French orchestra as this produces an intriguing and most attractive blend of Russian fire and colour with Gallic elegance and sentiment,"... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY / MAURICE RAVEL
Debussy / Ravel: Orchestral Works (Incls 'La Mer', 'Images', 'Bolero' & 'Daphnis et Chloe') Orchestre National de l ORTF, Orchestre de Paris, Jean Martinon, with Aldo Ciccolini (piano) Itzhak Perlman (violin) [ Erato / Warner Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 25/Jul/2018 ] "If you are satisfied with performances that are lucid, imaginative, thoughtful and unselfconscious then you will be very happy with Martinon." (MusicWeb on the Debussy) |
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W.A. MOZART
Die Zauberflote [The Magic Flute] (complete opera recorded in 2001) Paris National Opera / Piotr Beczala / Dorothea Roschmann / Desiree Rancatore / Ivan Fischer (cond) [ TDK / DVD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "A Paris National Opera production of The Magic Flute in German sounds like an unlikely prospect, yet the stage settings are beautifully rich and imaginative, as are the costumes. Dorothea Roeschmann as Pamina is outstanding" (Giv Cornfield) |
PROKOFIEV
Romeo & Juliet (Complete Ballet recorded in 1995. Choreography by Rudolf Nureyev) BLU-RAY Paris Opera Ballet / Monique Loudieres, Manuel Legris, Charles Jude / Vello Pahn (cond) [ Kultur / Warners / Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Apr/2014 ] "this is an often scintillating performance, and should be seen by any lover of ballet wanting to experience Nureyev's own idiosyncratic take on one of the most iconic ballets in the 20th century repertoire." - Jeffrey Kauffman, Blu-Ray.com |
RAMEAU
Hippolyte et Aricie (complete opera recorded in 2012) Paris Opera Palais Garnier / Topi Lehtipuu, Anne-Catherine Gillet, Stéphane Degoutad, Sarah Connolly / Emmanuelle Haim [ Erato / Warner Classics DVD / 2 DVD - released 28/Nov/2014 ] Recorded live at the Paris Opera Palais Garnier, Haïm is joined by the orchestra of Le Concert d'Astrée, as well stellar cast including Sarah Connolly as Phèdre, Stéphane Degout as Thésée, Anne-Catherine Gillet as Aricie and Topi Lehtipuu as Hippolyt |
RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Symphony No 3 / Caprice Bohemien / Vocalise / etc Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Jarvi (conductor) [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2015 ] That theatrical thrill is captured in this 2-CD set of live recordings of works by Rachmaninoff, made in 2011 and 2013 at the Salle Pleyel, the Orchestre de Paris's home until its move in early 2015 to the French capital's new Philharmonie. |
