Grétry: Raoul Barbe Bleue

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They do Grétry proud, with the ensemble’s playing first-rate and conductor Martin Wåhlberg maintaining consistently dynamic tempos. This is essentially an ensemble piece, and a capable company... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 15th Nov 2019
Catalogue No: AP214
Label: Aparté
Length: 87 minutes

Gretry: Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28

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Orkester Nord (soloist), François Rougier (soloist), Matthieu Lécroart (soloist), Chantal Santo-Jeffery (soloist), Eugénie Lefebvre (soloist), Chantal Santon-Jeffery (soloist), Marine Lafdal-Franc (soloist), Enguerrand de Hys (soloist), Jérôme Boutillier (soloist), Manuel Nunez Camelino (soloist)
Martin Wåhlberg

Ouverture

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"Ils viennent vous remercier"

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Duo "Il m'enlevait"

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"J'aurais été bien curieuse de voir l'entreprise"

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Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28, Acte I, Scène 2: Duo "Vergy, jamais Isaure, jamais je ne peux être"

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Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28, Acte I, Scène 3: "Ils s'aiment, vous le voyez"

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Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28, Acte I, Scène 4: "Faites ici, mon frère, rassembler"

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Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28, Acte I, Scène 5: "Quoi ! tu hésites"

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Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28, Acte I, Scène 6: Air "Moi je serais infidèle à Vergy !"

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Marche

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"Venez régner en souveraine"

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"Sire Raoul, mes frères connaissent mes intentions"

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Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28, Acte I, Scène 8: "Non, le serment fait à Vergy" (Ariette)

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Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28, Acte I, Scène 9: "Ah ! Damoiselle Isaure"

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Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28, Acte I, Scène 10: "Ah, mes frères"

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Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28, Acte I, Scène 11: Duo "Ah, je vous rends, charmante Isaure, les serments"

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"Hé bien, ma sœur"

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"Vivent ces deux époux !"

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Marche

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Entracte

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"Eh bien ! Osman"

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Duo "Je te trouve bien pitoyable"

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"Votre réveil, Madame, a précédé le lever de l'aurore"

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Trio "Jurez-moi"

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Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28, Acte II, Scène 3: "Qu'est-ce que j'entends ?"

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Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28, Acte II, Scène 4: "Quelle grande et belle femme !"

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Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28, Acte II, Scène 5: "Ah, malheureux Vergy"

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Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28, Acte II, Scène 6: Air "Vergy, ton souvenir fera le malheur de ma vie"

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Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28, Acte II, Scène 7: "Quel effroi vous saisit ?"

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Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28, Acte II, Scène 8, 9: Air "Je me meurs" - "Non, jamais rien de plus horrible"

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Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28, Acte II, Scène 9: "Fuyons, Vergy, fuyons."

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"Osman, mon cher Osman"

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Danse

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Air "Il n'est plus de malheur"

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Andante "Ma chère Isaure"

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Danse finale

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Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28: Entracte

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Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28, Acte III, Scène 1: "Que veut dire ce signal ?"

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Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28, Acte III, Scène 2: Duo "Cher Vergy, sauvez vos jours"

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Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28, Acte III, Scène 3: "Voici Monseigneur."

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Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28, Acte III, Scène 4: "Votre sœur a le ton bien brusque"

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Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28, Acte III, Scène 5: Air "Perfide, tu l'as ouverte"

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Raoul Barbe-Bleue, Op. 28, Acte III, Scène 6: "Madame, vous avez bien tardé."

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"Quoi, Raoul, vous oseriez" - "Et cet indigne vêtement ! Et je n'ai point d'armes !"

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Trio "Vergy, ma sœur, ne vois-tu rien venir ?"

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"Hé, Seigneur Raoul"

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Symphonie

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Chœur général "Vit-on jamais de tels forfaits ?"

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A collaboration of the Norwegian Music Festival Barokkfest and the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles. Premiered just a few months before the French Revolution and fallen into oblivion since, Raoul Barbe-bleue is an unclassifiable opéra comique whose musical and dramatic implications are so remarkable

that it even inspired Offenbach.

Marvellous and medieval universes meet in this drama based on Perrault’s tale that announces, both through its writing and its inherent horror, the upcoming

musical romanticism. Indeed, far from being an archetype of the genre, Raoul Barbe-bleue depicts a cruel gentry from a quite political point of view, that it

even dares to mock by mingling tragical register and comic effects, from travesty to the figure of the scapegoat valet.

The mysterious atmosphere that emerges from the drama (and that recalls eventually Weber’s Singspiel) stems mostly from a musical writing that widely

supports the suspense and that cannot be compared to the naïve and simple early works of the composer. Indeed, Grétry’s musical refinement and elegance

serve the dramatic strength of his work and evokes Mozart’s Requiem introit.

Recorded in the beautiful theatre in Trondheim (Norway) with a brilliant cast under Martin Wahlberg’s direction, Raoul Barbe-bleue reveals a considerable

richness that will certainly strike both the neophyte and the specialist.

Reviews

March 2020

They do Grétry proud, with the ensemble’s playing first-rate and conductor Martin Wåhlberg maintaining consistently dynamic tempos. This is essentially an ensemble piece, and a capable company delivers it energetically – with no stars required.

February 2020

With a well-chosen, largely Francophone cast and trim playing from the Norwegian period band there is plenty of tension in the more dramatic numbers. Martin Wåhlberg has a sure feeling for pacing and makes the most of the score’s instrumental colours...Both in song and spoken dialogue all the singers sound at ease in opéra comique. Chantal Santon-Jeffery is a radiant Isaure, shaping her music gracefully while mustering ample dramatic intensity in extremis.

April 2020

Grétry’s music encompasses both the comic and darker elements of the piece with consummate skill…The recording…is chiefly notable for the committed direction and orchestral playing of the period-instrument Orkester Nord. Vocally the cast is dominated by the strong, authoritative Raul of the baritone Matthieu Lecroart, who manages to encompass the ambiguous complexity of the character while also letting out laughs a pantomime villain would be proud to own.

8th December 2019

Colourful, bold and often touching, the language absorbs elements of Rameau, Gluck, even Mozart, and Wahlberg’s performance here, with Chantal Santon Jeffery, François Rougier and Matthieu Lécroart in the roles of Isaure, Vergy and Raoul, does the piece proud.

Grétry: Raoul Barbe Bleue

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