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Roberto Alagna - French Arias

	Release Date: 04/10/2001 Label: Emi Classics Catalog #: 57012 Spars Code: DDD Composer: François Bazin, Luigi Cherubini, Jacques Halévy, Ambroise Thomas, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Hector Berlioz, Christoph W. Gluck, Georges Bizet, Edouard Lalo, Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, Camille Saint-Saëns, Jules Massenet, Charles Gounod, André Modeste Grétry, Alfred Bruneau Performer: Roberto Alagna Conductor: Bertrand De Billy Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra, London Voices Number of Discs: 1 Recorded in: Stereo Length: 1 Hours 12 Mins.	List Price: $16.99 ArkivCD $14.99 In Stock On sale!

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This new Roberto Alagna disc offers a welcome and enjoyable collection of popular and less-well-known French opera arias. Along with the more or less standard fare of Saint-Saëns' Samson et Dalila, Bizet's Pearl Fishers, Halévy's La Juive, Meyerbeer's L'Africaine, Thomas' Mignon, Berlioz's Faust, Gluck's Iphigénie, and Lalo's Le Roi d'Ys, there are arias (and some recitatives) from Méhul's Joseph, Gounod's Mireille, Grétry's L'Amant jaloux, Bazin's Maître Pathelin, Cherubini's Les Abencérages, and Bruneau's L'Attaque du Moulin. All are expertly performed by Alagna, with an accomplished technique that allows him to produce full-bodied sound in the loud passages and maintain tonal solidity even in the softest pianissimos (no easy feat!). This lends dynamic excitement to the dramatic passages in "Rachel, quand du Seigneur" and "Vois ma misère, hélas". In these and others, Alagna's emotional and dramatic identification with the protagonists makes for highly involving mini-portrayals. That said, about half-way into this album I started to feel a bit of ear-fatigue. Alagna's voice doesn't have the kind of ringing resonance characteristic of Pavarotti or the shining warmth of Björling--qualities that make you ever eager for the next selection and sorry when the program is over. So, as with most collections of this type, I rarely play the whole thing (72 minutes) at one sitting. Still, it's great to have this delightful repertoire beautifully sung by one of today's leading tenors, persuasively accompanied by Betrand de Billy and the Covent Garden orchestra. EMI's recording is well balanced, though the hard reverberation relays the sound of an empty hall. --Victor Carr Jr., ClassicsToday.com


Works on This Recording			Back to Top

1.	Maître Pathelin: Je pense a vous by François Bazin
	Performer: Roberto Alagna (Tenor) Conductor: Bertrand De Billy Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1856; France	Date of Recording: 1999-2000 Venue: Lyndhurst Hall, Air Studios, London Length: 2 Minutes 49 Secs. Language: French


2.	Les abencérages: Suspendez à ces murs by Luigi Cherubini
	Performer: Roberto Alagna (Tenor) Conductor: Bertrand De Billy Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: by 1813; France	Date of Recording: 1999-2000 Venue: Lyndhurst Hall, Air Studios, London Length: 4 Minutes 36 Secs. Language: French


3.	La juive: Rachel, quand du Seigneur by Jacques Halévy
	Performer: Roberto Alagna (Tenor) Conductor: Bertrand De Billy Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1835; Paris, France	Date of Recording: 1999-2000 Venue: Lyndhurst Hall, Air Studios, London Length: 6 Minutes 35 Secs. Language: French


4.	Mignon: Elle ne croyait pas by Ambroise Thomas
	Performer: Roberto Alagna (Tenor) Conductor: Bertrand De Billy Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1866; France	Date of Recording: 1999-2000 Venue: Lyndhurst Hall, Air Studios, London Length: 4 Minutes 34 Secs. Language: French


5.	L'Africaine: O paradis sorti de l'onde by Giacomo Meyerbeer
	Performer: Roberto Alagna (Tenor) Conductor: Bertrand De Billy Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1865; Germany	Date of Recording: 1999-2000 Venue: Lyndhurst Hall, Air Studios, London Length: 3 Minutes 33 Secs. Language: French

	Notes: This selection begins with "Pays merveilleux..."


6.	La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Nature immense by Hector Berlioz
	Performer: Roberto Alagna (Tenor) Conductor: Bertrand De Billy Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: France	Date of Recording: 1999-2000 Venue: Lyndhurst Hall, Air Studios, London Length: 3 Minutes 53 Secs. Language: French

	Notes: Composition written: France (1845 - 1846).


7.	Iphigénie en Tauride: Unis de la plus tendre enfance by Christoph W. Gluck
	Performer: Roberto Alagna (Tenor) Conductor: Bertrand De Billy Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra Period: Classical Written: 1778-1779; Vienna, Austria	Date of Recording: 1999-2000 Venue: Lyndhurst Hall, Air Studios, London Length: 5 Minutes 33 Secs. Language: French

	Notes: This selection begins with "Quel langage accablant..."


8.	Les pêcheurs de perles: Je crois entendre encore by Georges Bizet
	Performer: Roberto Alagna (Tenor) Conductor: Bertrand De Billy Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1863; France	Date of Recording: 1999-2000 Venue: Lyndhurst Hall, Air Studios, London Length: 5 Minutes 24 Secs. Language: French

	Notes: This selection begins with "A cette voix quel trouble agitait tout mon être..."


9.	Le Roi d'Ys: Vainement, ma bien-aimée [Aubade] by Edouard Lalo
	Performer: Roberto Alagna (Tenor) Conductor: Bertrand De Billy Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1875-1888; France	Date of Recording: 1999-2000 Venue: Lyndhurst Hall, Air Studios, London Length: 3 Minutes 40 Secs. Language: French

	Notes: This selection begins with "Puisqu'on ne peut fléchir..."


10.	Joseph: Vainement, Pharaon...Champs paternals by Etienne-Nicolas Méhul
	Performer: Roberto Alagna (Tenor) Conductor: Bertrand De Billy Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra Period: Classical Written: 1807; France	Date of Recording: 1999-2000 Venue: Lyndhurst Hall, Air Studios, London Length: 5 Minutes 49 Secs. Language: French


11.	Samson et Dalila, Op. 47: Vois ma misère by Camille Saint-Saëns
	Performer: Roberto Alagna (Tenor) Conductor: Bertrand De Billy Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra, London Voices Period: Romantic Written: 1877; France	Date of Recording: 1999-2000 Venue: Lyndhurst Hall, Air Studios, London Length: 8 Minutes 55 Secs. Language: French


12.	Le Cid: Ah! tout est bien fini...O Souverain, ô juge, ô père by Jules Massenet
	Performer: Roberto Alagna (Tenor) Conductor: Bertrand De Billy Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1885; France	Date of Recording: 1999-2000 Venue: Lyndhurst Hall, Air Studios, London Length: 5 Minutes 2 Secs. Language: French


13.	Mireille: Mon coeur ne peut changer by Charles Gounod
	Performer: Roberto Alagna (Tenor) Conductor: Bertrand De Billy Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1864; France	Date of Recording: 1999-2000 Venue: Lyndhurst Hall, Air Studios, London Length: 3 Minutes 31 Secs. Language: French


14.	L'amant jaloux: Sérénade by André Modeste Grétry
	Performer: Roberto Alagna (Tenor) Conductor: Bertrand De Billy Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra Period: Classical Written: by 1778; France	Date of Recording: 1999-2000 Venue: Lyndhurst Hall, Air Studios, London Length: 2 Minutes 49 Secs. Language: French


15.	L'attaque du moulin: Le jour tombe by Alfred Bruneau
	Performer: Roberto Alagna (Tenor) Conductor: Bertrand De Billy Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1892-1893; France	Date of Recording: 1999-2000 Venue: Lyndhurst Hall, Air Studios, London Length: 5 Minutes 35 Secs. Language: French

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