Denise Boursin, Berthe Monmart, Claudine Collart
Description
This is the first recording of this rare opera of Louis Ferdinand Herold which has recently been revived at the Palais Garnier in Paris - Le Pré Aux Clercs.
It is a comic opera in three acts with music by Louis-Ferdinand Hérold, words by Planard, written during the reign of Charles IX de Mérimée.
Louis-Ferdinand Hérold was born in 1791 and died in 1833. His father, a composer and pupil of C.P.E. Bach and piano teacher, did everything he could to prevent him launching into a musical career, but after the death of his father, the
young Louis-Ferdinand enrolled at the Paris Conservatoire.
His first opera La gioventu di Enrico Quinto was first performed in Naples and on his return to Paris, he completed Boieldieu's opera Charles de France. There followed a number of successful works culminating in the triumph of Zampa which placed Hérold in the first rank of French
composers. The last work published in his lifetime was Le Pré aux Clercs.
This double disc presents a complete performance from Paris 13/06/59, coupled with extracts taken from a performance from 1962.
Tracklisting
Boursin/Vanzo/Savignol/Disney/Levasseur/Siderer...
Aarden/Cambon/Radio Netherlands Orchestra & Chorus
Poncet;Boue;Legros;Gianotti, Henri Gui
Annick Simon; Fanely Revoil; Aime Doniat; Rene Lenoty
Regine Crespin
Genevieve Moizan
Tony Poncet
MICHEL CADIOU
Thomas Sanderling, Orchester des Nationaltheaters Mannheim
Malcolm Sargent, Mary Lewis, Tudor Davies, Maggie Teyte, Clive Carey, Marie Howes, Harry Plunket Greene, James Johnstone
Maria Callas
Soloists; Eroica Berlin; Jakob Lehmann
Luigi De Donato; Collegium 1704; Vaclav Luks
Anna Moffo; Cesare Valletti; Fernando Corena; Erich Leinsdorf
Soloists; Orchestre classique de Montreal; Alain Trudel
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi, Natalia Rubis, Pawel Konik, Krzysztof Baczyk, Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Choir
