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Donizetti: Le Duc d’Albe

Angela Meade (Hélène d’Egmont), Michael Spyres (Henri de Bruges), Laurent Naouri (Le Duc d'Albe), Gianluca Buratto (Daniel Brauer), David Stout (Sandoval), Trystan Llyr Griffiths (Carlos), Robin Tritschler (Balbuena), Dawid Kimberg (Un Tavernier)

Hallé & Opera Rara Chorus, Sir Mark Elder

Imaginative casting brings together authoritative soprano Angela Meade, stylish tenor Michael Spyres and elegant French baritone Laurent Naouri.
Mark Elder conducts a cultivated performance... — Financial Times, 26th February 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 26th Feb 2016
Catalogue No: ORC54
Label: Opera Rara
Length: 93 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

26th February 2016
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Donizetti: Le Duc d’Albe

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Gianluca Buratto, Robin Tritschler, Laurent Naouri, Trystan Llŷr Griffiths, David Stout, Dawid Kimberg, Michael Spyres, Angela Meade, Angele Meade
Opera Rara Chrous, Hallé Orchestra, Opera Rara Chorus
Mark Elder

Prélude

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‘Espagne! Espagne! Espagne!’

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‘Par Saint-Jacques, messieurs’

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‘Voyez donc cette belle’

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‘C’est donc ici!!... Daniel...’

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‘Honneur à lui! Ce guerrier...’

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‘Pourquoi dans cette foule...’

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‘Au sein des mers...’

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‘Du courage, du courage’

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‘Cette fille noble et belle’

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‘Race faible et poltronne’

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‘Hélène! O ciel!... Henri...’

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‘Toi tu resteras!’

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‘Punis mon audace!’

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‘Je devrais te punir!’

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‘Non, non, point de grâce’

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‘Je suis libre et sur la terre’

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‘Liqueur traîtresse’

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‘Ici l’on travaille’

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‘Vive la bière’

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‘Mais j’entends battre la retraite’

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‘Es-tu seul?’

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‘Ton ombre murmure’

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‘Quoi! Déjà de retour?’

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‘Plus bas! plus bas!’

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‘Vous exposer encore!’

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‘Comment dans ma reconnaissance’

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'Ah! Oui, longtemps en silence’

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‘Malheureuse et proscrite...’

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‘Noble martyr de la patrie’

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‘Les derniers feux...’

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‘Amis! L’heure d’agir...’

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‘Marchons...’

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‘Liberté... chérie!’

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‘Ciel!’

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‘Liqueur traîtresse’

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‘Maître Daniel est seul...’

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‘Nous n’avons qu’un roi...’

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‘Oui, bravons le tyran...’

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‘O ciel, O surprise’

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Interview, Michael Spyres

30th March 2016

Katherine talks to the American tenor about his career to date and his role on Opera Rara's new recording of Donizetti's Le Duc d’Albe.

Recording of the Week, Mark Elder conducts Donizetti's Le Duc d'Albe

26th February 2016

Katherine enjoys Donizetti's Flanders-set epic Le Duc d'Albe, conducted by Mark Elder.

Le Duc d’Albe stars the glorious American soprano Angela Meade, making her debut recording for Opera Rara. Joining Angela, and returning to Opera Rara following his astonishing performance on the label’s award-winning recording of Donizetti’s Les Martyrs, is tenor Michael Spyres, as well as Laurent Naouri, who recently sang on our recording of Gounod’s La Colombe.

Reviews

26th February 2016

Imaginative casting brings together authoritative soprano Angela Meade, stylish tenor Michael Spyres and elegant French baritone Laurent Naouri.
Mark Elder conducts a cultivated performance with the Hallé.

April 2016

Opera Rara has decided here only to record what is largely Donizetti’s own music, which means just the first two acts…so what we have is but a torso, tantalising and inevitably positing several major what-ifs. And it’s all the more tantalising since the first two acts are dispatched with all the style and élan we’ve come to expect from Mark Elder in this music, here with the Hallé. He brings conviction, stylistic nous and a wonderful airy clarity to the score.

May 2016

Elder's complete command of Donizettian atmosphere...and pacing...makes it clear that the essential grand opera conflict...stimulated the composer to even greater directness and iommediacy...than are apparent at the start of Les Martyrs...[Spyres] produces a peerless combination of eloquent French utterance. fearless musicianship and unfailingly beautiful tone.

26th February 2016

the score’s so involving and appealing, and the performance so gripping that I won’t pretend I wasn’t dreaming of what Donizetti might have done with dramatic denouement...With a big, bright, mettlesome instrument that easily encompasses the role’s wide range, American soprano Angela Meade is formidable as Hélène...it’s hard not to be knocked sideways by the sheer vocal charisma of Michael Spyres.

6th March 2016

Certainly, this recording is worth hearing, above all for the thrilling male leads. Is there a better tenor today than Michael Spyres? He makes Henri’s fiendish music sound easy. Laurent Naouri as the Duke and Gianluca Buratto as the Flemish leader, Brauer, are superb, too.

3rd March 2016

under Mark Elder’s propulsive baton, the highlights keep coming...Spyres’s clarion tenor shines throughout as Henri. Angela Meade’s soprano is squally in Hélène’s act one rabble-rousing, but commanding in all the right ways in act two, and Laurent Naouri and David Stout are excellent as the Duke and his snarling henchman.

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