Chabrier Une Education Manquée/Mélodies
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Composer or Director: (Alexis-)Emmanuel Chabrier
Genre:
Opera
Label: Le Chant du Monde
Magazine Review Date: 8/1992
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 55
Mastering:
Mono
ADD
Catalogue Number: LDC278 1068
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| (Une) Éducation manquée |
(Alexis-)Emmanuel Chabrier, Composer
(Alexis-)Emmanuel Chabrier, Composer (Anonymous) Orchestra Charles Bruck, Conductor Christiane Castelli, Gontran Claudine Collart, Helene, Soprano Xavier Depraz, Pausanias, Bass |
| (Le) Roi malgré lui |
(Alexis-)Emmanuel Chabrier, Composer
(Alexis-)Emmanuel Chabrier, Composer Ann Hood, Plaintiff, Mezzo soprano Kenneth Sandford, Shadbolt, Bass Thomas Round, Defendant, Tenor |
| Chanson pour Jeanne |
(Alexis-)Emmanuel Chabrier, Composer
(Alexis-)Emmanuel Chabrier, Composer Christiane Castelli, Soprano Clive Revill, Ko-Ko, Baritone Denis Dowling, Pooh-Bah, Baritone Hélène Boschi, Piano John Wakefield, Nanki-Poo, Tenor |
| (L')île heureuse |
(Alexis-)Emmanuel Chabrier, Composer
(Alexis-)Emmanuel Chabrier, Composer Christiane Castelli, Soprano Elisabeth Grümmer, Freia, Soprano Gustav Neidlinger, Alberich, Bass Hélène Boschi, Piano Lorenz Fehenberger, Froh, Tenor |
| Gwendoline |
(Alexis-)Emmanuel Chabrier, Composer
(Alexis-)Emmanuel Chabrier, Composer Jane Berbié, Gontran, Soprano Jean-Christoph Benoit, Pausanius, Baritone Michael Rippon, Louis, Baritone |
| Ballade des gros dindons |
(Alexis-)Emmanuel Chabrier, Composer
(Alexis-)Emmanuel Chabrier, Composer Christiane Castelli, Soprano Hélène Boschi, Piano Liselotte Maikl, Slave, Soprano Theodore Kirschbichler, Cappadocian, Bass Waldemar Kmentt, Narraboth, Tenor Waldemar Kmentt, Narraboth, Tenor Waldemar Kmentt, Narraboth, Tenor |
| Pastorale des cochons roses |
(Alexis-)Emmanuel Chabrier, Composer
(Alexis-)Emmanuel Chabrier, Composer Christiane Castelli, Soprano Hélène Boschi, Piano Plácido Domingo, Alfredo Germont, Tenor Sherrill Milnes, Giorgio Germont, Baritone Stefania Malagù, Flora, Mezzo soprano |
Author: Lionel Salter
Anyone who enjoyed Chabrier’s sparkling L’Etoile—and it would be a dismal Jimmy indeed who didn’t—will certainly relish this entertaining pocket opera that he produced 18 months later to entertain the Press. (Now there’s something for our Critics’ Circle to emulate!) Une education manquee (“A defective education”) is no more than a sketch, set in the time of Louis XVI, about two very young aristocrats who have just been married but are totally innocent of the facts of life: the tutor to whom the young Count turns for advice has spent his whole life amid books and out of the world and is equally ignorant; and it is only when the disappointed bride, frightened by a thunderstorm, seeks refuge in her husband’s arms that the problem solves itself. The libretto is witty—one buffo duet in which the tutor catalogues the subjects he has taught is a riot—and the music is not only fresh and charming but beautifully crafted and scored.
The three participants here act out their roles admirably—would that English singers handled dialogue with such ease and skill!—and the whole performance, given just the right amount of production, has a vivacity and forward impulse that sweeps the listener along with it. The orchestral sound is somewhat withdrawn, but the acoustics of the spoken and sung sections match up fairly well: no translation of the text is supplied, but the diction of all the singers is exemplary, and even those with no French should be able to follow the action easily.
To fill the disc, Christiane Castelli (whom I remember as a member of the Paris Opera in the 1950s, but who seems to have made almost no recordings) adds half a dozen varied Chabrier songs. Her bright, typically French voice has charm and poise why was nothing more heard of her?—and her enunciation is among the clearest I have ever encountered. She sounds completely at ease in all the songs’ moods except in the spinning song from Gwendoline, where, exceptionally, her high notes are less well placed. Both she and her very able pianist are closely recorded, and there is some tape background.'
The three participants here act out their roles admirably—would that English singers handled dialogue with such ease and skill!—and the whole performance, given just the right amount of production, has a vivacity and forward impulse that sweeps the listener along with it. The orchestral sound is somewhat withdrawn, but the acoustics of the spoken and sung sections match up fairly well: no translation of the text is supplied, but the diction of all the singers is exemplary, and even those with no French should be able to follow the action easily.
To fill the disc, Christiane Castelli (whom I remember as a member of the Paris Opera in the 1950s, but who seems to have made almost no recordings) adds half a dozen varied Chabrier songs. Her bright, typically French voice has charm and poise why was nothing more heard of her?—and her enunciation is among the clearest I have ever encountered. She sounds completely at ease in all the songs’ moods except in the spinning song from Gwendoline, where, exceptionally, her high notes are less well placed. Both she and her very able pianist are closely recorded, and there is some tape background.'
Chabrier Une Education Manquée/Mélodies
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