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PUCCINI
Madama Butterfly (Highlights from the opera) Richard Cowan, Richard Troxell, Ying Huang / Paris Orchestra / James Conlon [ Sony Music / CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] "Chinese soprano Ying Huang doesn't rock the rafters with her vocal power; hers is a tender, delicately observed performance. Tenor Richard Troxell's self-seeking Pinkerton is well sung. Overall, this is a haunting cinematic treatment of an... |
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PORTER / LOPEZ / MANSARD / etc
C'est magnifique!: Songs of Luis Mariano Roberto Alagna (tenor) / Paris Symphonic Orchestra / Yvan Cassar [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 16/Dec/2005 ] Roberto Alagna pays tribute to Luis Mariano with a fresh and virtuosic take on the highlights of popular repertoire |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Don Carlos (Complete French version recorded in 1996) Theatre du Chatelet, Paris / Roberto Alagna, Thomas Hampson, Karita Mattila / Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Warner Music Vision DVD / DVD - released 18/Jan/2001 ] G - Libretto by Joseph Mery and Camille du Locle after Schiller's dramatic poem Don Carlos. The original French version in five acts by Ursula Gunther, revised after the original version by Ursula Gunther and Luciano Pelazzoni. |
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MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe (complete ballet) / La Valse Orchestre et Choeurs de L'Opera national de Paris, Philippe Jordan [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 1/May/2015 ] This new recording of Daphnis et Chloé, Ravel's most sumptuous score, marks a number of firsts as it evokes the heady days of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris in the early years of the 20th century. It grew from performances of the... |
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PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Iolanta (complete opera recorded in 1984) Galina Vishnevskaya, Nicolai Gedda, Walton Gronroos, Tom Krause / Groupe Vocal de France & Orchestre de Paris, Mstislav Rostropovich [ Warner Classics Erato Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] "Rostropovich's 1984 Paris concert performance [is] centred round Galina Vishnevskaya… singing warmly and strongly, with a fine Vaudemont from Nicolai Gedda." Gramophone |
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VIVALDI / DONIZETTI / ROSSINI / HANDEL / HASSE
Arias [3 CD set] Vivica Genaux (mezzo soprano) / Europa Galante, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Les Violons du Roy [ Erato / Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2015 ] "Mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux is superb. Her voice is perfectly suited to this type of repertoire, with the ability to tackle the stratospheric scales, arpeggios and trills, while remaining comfortable in the lower registers." (MusicWeb Feb 2010) |
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THIERRY ESCAICH
Escaich: Te Deum pour Notre-Dame Alain Altinoglu; Thierry Escaich; Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris; NFM Choir; Frankfurt Radio Symphony [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 31/Oct/2025 ] The French composer and organist Thierry Escaich composed his Te Deum pour Notre-Dame for the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris; a hymn to the Cathedral's resurrection, it is a large-scale work for children's choir, two mixed choirs and... |
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RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Le Coq d'Or [The Golden Cockerel] (complete opera recorded in 2002) Albert Schagidullin / Olga Trifonova / Yuri Maria Saenz / Ilya Levinsky / Orchestre de Paris / Kent Nagano [ ArtHaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] This Châtelet revival of Le Coq d'or brings to the stage once again the great Kabuki actor Ennosuke III's striking staging of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera first mounted in co-production with the San Francisco Opera in 1984. |
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CESAR FRANCK
Alfred Cortot - Franck: Symphonic Variations (rec 1934) with concertos by Saint-Saens and Ravel Alfred Cortot (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Landon Ronald / Paris Conservatoire Orchestra / Charles Munch [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 2/Jul/2001 ] "One of his precious few concerto recordings, this disc shows Cortot at his most beguiling. Mark Obert-Thorn's transfers are exceptional and all lovers of past but ever-present greatness will want this second and final Naxos volume of Cortot's sadly... |
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HENRY MADIN
Madin: Te Deum pour les Victoires de Louis XV Anne Magouet, Michiko Takahashi, Robert Getchell, Alban Dufourt, Alain Buet / Stradivaria & Les Cris de Paris, Daniel Cuiller [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2016 ] [Madin] writes vividly…[and] Daniel Cuiller is well in command of his forces in both pieces; worth investigating" (Gramophone) |
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CHARLES LECOCQ
Lecocq: La fille de Madame Angot (complete operetta) Anne-Catherine Gillet; Véronique Gens; Mathias Vidal / Orchestre de chambre de Paris; Sébastien Rouland; Chœur du Concert Spirituel, Sébastien Rouland [ Bru Zane / 2 CD Box Set - released 22/Oct/2021 ] La Fille de Madame Angot, an opéra-comique in three acts, was premiered at the Théâtre des Fantaisies-Parisiennes in Brussels on 4 December 1872 before scoring a similar triumph in France on 21 February 1873. |
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PIERRE de la RUE
De La Rue: Mass of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Ars Antiqua de Paris, Michel Sanvoisin [ Naxos Early Music / CD - released 3/Jul/2000 ] "The 'deserve-to-be-better-known' group of composers is a large one, populated by countless rather tiresome strugglers. But Pierre de la Rue (d 1518) is a genuine exception. His breathtaking music was mainly composed for a string of... |
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SCHNEITZHOEFFER
La Sylphide (complete ballet recorded in 2004) Aurélie Dupont / Mathieu Ganio / Mélanie Hurel / Le Corps De Ballet And Opéra National De Paris / Ermanno Fl [ Arthaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 12/May/2011 ] Arthaus presents Pierre Lacotte's landmark reconstruction of the Romantic Ballet La Sylphide, long regarded as a classic in its own right. |
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STRAVINSKY / FAURE / TCHAIKOVSKY
Jewels (ballet by George Balanchine) Ballet de L'Opera National de Paris / George Balanchine / Christian Lacroix [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 19/Jun/2006 ] G :- 'Jewels', a work first performed by the New York City Ballet in 1967. This alluring, abstract ballet, a triptych in which each piece sparkles with the brilliance of a precious stone, is a lyric tribute to women and to the capital cities of... |
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STRAVINSKY / FAURE / TCHAIKOVSKY
Jewels [ballet by George Balanchine] (recorded in 2005) BLU-RAY Ballet de L'Opera National de Paris / Aurelie Dupont, Marie-Agnes Gillot, Agnes Letestu, Clairemarie Osta [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Dec/2008 ] DVD Blu-Ray - Jewels, a work first performed by the New York City Ballet in 1967. This alluring, abstract ballet, a triptych in which each piece sparkles with the brilliance of a precious stone, is a lyric tribute to women and to the capital cities... |
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Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris, Hugo Marchand, Amandine Albisson, Matthias Heymann, Mathieu Ganio, Léonore Baulac, Germain Louvet, Dorothée Gilbert, Paul
Opéra de Paris: A Very Special Season (a Film By Priscilla Pizzato) BLU-RAY [ BelAir classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 27/May/2022 ] The Paris Opera Ballet is one of the most active dance companies in the world. The dancers, used to practicing 5 to 7 hours a day, develop themselves by working with coaches and choreographers. |
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BEETHOVEN / DEBUSSY / FAURE / SAINT-SAENS / etc
Proust, or How The Heart Skips A Beat (complete ballet recorded in 2007) Choreography by Roland Petit Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris / Stéphanie Romberg / Eleonora Abbagnato / Manuel Legris / Koen Kessels (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques / Harmonia Mundi Distibution / DVD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] G - In 1974, Roland Petit, probably the greatest and certainly one of the most prolific of 20th century French choreographers he was the first person to create a work based on Proust's novel, A la recherche du temps perdu, completed in 1922, the... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: The Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol. 7 Orgelbüchlein, Bwv 599-644 (with Choir) Benjamin Alard (harpsichord & clavichord), Ensemble Vocal Bergamasque, Marine Fribourg, Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] 'The effect, both individually and collectively, is stunning.' Gramophone Award Finalist 2023 - Instrumental |
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TCHAIKOVSKY / BORODIN / MUSSORGSKY / GLINKA
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5 & Russian Orchestral Works Berliner Philharmoniker, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ] "Solti's hurricane-like Tchaikovsky Serenade has to be heard to be believed - the finale almost flies off with the gale" (Penguin Guide) |
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BERG / MOZART / ELGAR / SCHUBERT / RODRIGO / BERLIOZ / etc
Daniel Barenboim: A Retrospective - complete Sony recordings [43 CDs + 3 DVDs] English Chamber Orchestrea, Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Orchestre de Paris, Daniel Barenboim [ Sony Classical / 46 CD/DVD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2017 ] Celebrating Pianist, Conductor and Ambassador of music...Daniel Barenboim. The first ever collection of Daniel Barenboim's complete recordings as conductor and pianist for RCA and Sony Classical in an original-jackets collection. |