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Debussy, Dutoit, Montréal Symphony Orchestra
Pelleas Et Melsiande
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (20) - Disc #1
1. Act One, Scene 1: Je ne pourrai plus sortir de cette foret - Gilles Cachemaille
2. Act One, Scene 1: Pourquoi pleures-tu? - Gilles Cachemaille
3. Act One, Scene 1: Je suis perdu aussi - Gilles Cachemaille
4. Act One, Scene 2: Voici ce qu'il ecrit a son Frere Pelleas - Claudine Carlson
5. Act One, Scene 2: Qu'en dites-vouus? - Claudine Carlson
6. Act One, Scene 2: Interlude - Orch Sym de Montreal/Dutoit
7. Act One, Scene 3: Il fait sombre dans les jardins - Colette Alliot-Lugaz
8. Act One, Scene 3: Hoe! Hisse Hoe! - Choeurs de I'OSM/Edwards
9. Act Two, Scene 1: Vous ne savez pas ou je vous ai menee? - Didier Henry
10. Act Two, Scene 1: C'est au bord d'une fontaine - Didier Henry
11. Act Two, Scene 1: Interlude - Orch Sym de Montreal/Dutoit
12. Act Two, Scene 2: Ah! Ah! Tout va bien - Gilles Cachemaille
13. Act Two, Scene 2: Voyons, donne-moi ta main - Gilles Cachemaille
14. Act Two, Scene 2: Interlude - Orch Sym de Montreal/Dutoit
15. Act Two, Scene 3: Oui, c'est ici, nous y sommes - Didier Henry
16. Act Three, Scene 1: Mes longs cheveux - Colette Alliot-Lugaz
17. Act Three, Scene 1: Je les tiens dans les mains - Didier Henry
18. Act Three, Scene 1: Que faites-vous ici? - Gilles Cachemaille
19. Act Three, Scene 2: Prenez garde: par ici, par ici - Gilles Cachemaille
20. Act Three, Scene 3: Ah! je respire enfin - Didier Henry
Track Listings (20) - Disc #2
1. Act Three, Scene 3: Interlude - Orch Sym de Montreal/Dutoit
2. Act Three, Scene 4: Viens, nous allons nous asseoir ici - Gilles Cachemaille
3. Act Three, Scene 4: Qu'ils s'embrassent, petit pere? - Francoise Golfier
4. Act Four, Scene 1: Ou vas-tu? - Didier Henry
5. Act Four, Scene 2: Maintenant que le pere de Pelleas - Pierre Thau
6. Act Four, Scene 2: Pelleas part ce soir - Gilles Cachemaille
7. Act Four, Scene 2: Ne mettez pas ainsi votre main a la gorge - Gilles Cachemaille
8. Act Four, Scene 2: Interlude - Orch Sym de Montreal/Dutoit
9. Act Four, Scene 3: Oh! Cette pierre est lourde - Francoise Golfier
10. Act Four, Scene 4: C'est le dernier soir - Didier Henry
11. Act Four, Scene 4: Nous sommes venus ici il y a bien longtemps - Colette Alliot-Lugaz
12. Act Four, Scene 4: On dirait que ta voix - Didier Henry
13. Act Four, Scene 4: Quel est ce bruit? - Didier Henry
14. Act Five: Ce n'est pas de cette petite blessure - Phillip Ens
15. Act Five: Attention; je crois qu'elle s'eveille - Pierre Thau
16. Act Five: Melisande, as-tu pitie de moi - Gilles Cachemaille
17. Act Five: Non, non, nous n'avons pas ete coupables - Colette Alliot-Lugaz
18. Act Five: Qu'avez-vous fait - Pierre Thau
19. Act Five: Qu'y a-t-il? - Gilles Cachemaille
20. Act Five: Attention...attention. - Pierre Thau

CD Details

All Artists: Debussy, Dutoit, Montréal Symphony Orchestra
Title: Pelleas Et Melsiande
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Polygram Records
Release Date: 4/5/1991
Genre: Classical
Style: Opera & Classical Vocal
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 028943050227

Synopsis

Amazon.com essential recording

Among modern recordings of the opera, this one is a safe bet, assuming you want a safe version of this opera. Unlike Herbert von Karajan's oppressively string-heavy reading with the Berlin Philharmonic on EMI, this is a balanced, idiomatic account of the score, given a special luster by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra's coloristic instincts and the warm recording acoustic at St. Eustache Church. Conductor Charles Dutoit has a fine instinctive feel for Debussy in general and this score in particular. The singers in the title roles--Didier Henry and Colette Alloit-Lugaz--have both come to terms with the opera's enigmatic dramaturgy. However, it's very much a symphonic rather than operatic performance, clearly a product of the recording studio rather than of the stage. Nobody completely inhabits the score, though with Debussy, even the sparkling surface is a vehicle of dramatic truth. Thus, any well-meant performance (of which this is certainly one) can never be superficial. --David Patrick Stearns

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CD Reviews

What's Everyone's Issue With This Gem

Christian Matjias | Ann Arbor, MI | 02/28/2010

(4 out of 5 stars)

"As I own nine recordings of this opera, and clearly have my biases as to interpretation and appropriateness of style, I have always been perplexed by the bad rap this recording elicits from listeners. I will admit to loving the Karajan/EMI, Ansermet/OLSR (Stereo), and Boulez DVD recordings; and will pay due tribute and awe to the wartime mono recording with Desormiere. I've also found the Abbado recording somewhat lacking vocally, and the orchestral playing on Jordan and Baudo recordings to be either uneven or poorly captured in the studio. THe Haitink recording, I found quite similar to the later Boulez reading in terms of subtlety and restrained tension. But this Dutoit recording I feel is a lost gem. Yes, it reads more as an orchestral work than an opera, but the singing is fresh and unaffected, and for a generation who may come to opera not through the stage, but through recording, this reading is one of the finest examples of the work. Each character reads so clearly, and when Dutoit and Montreal were on, they were sublime. Not since the Munch / BSO years has this repertoire read so beautifully, and in this recording, Dutiot and cast carry listeners across the rich landscape of Debussy / Maeterlinck's masterpiece as if in a dream. Though 'stronger' vocalists have taken various of these roles over the decades, I feel this cast comes across as a true ensemble (something lacking in the Abbado and Jordan recordings), which makes the experience all the richer. This recording resides in or out of print, depending on the year, so if you find it, I can only recommend that you not let this experience pass you by."