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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer

and Dietsch: Le Vaisseau Fantôme

Evgeny Nikitin (Der Holländer), Ingela Brimberg (Senta), Eric Cutler (Georg), Mika Kares (Donald), Bernard Richter (Der Steuermann), Helene Schneiderman (Mary), Russell Braun (Troïl), Sally Matthews (Minna), Bernard Richter (Magnus), Ugo Rabec (Barlow) & Eric Cutler (Éric)

Les Musiciens...

Minkowski and his players give Dietsch all the vitality they can. The cast sings with conviction...Dietsch by turns sounds like Auber, Meyerbeer, even Gounod: elegant, lyrical but never distinctive..... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Oct 2013
Catalogue No: V5349
Label: Naive
Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Gramophone Awards

2014

Finalist - Opera
Opera

February 2014

Recording of the Month

Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer

Work length2:09:45

Album only

$47.25

Evgeny Nikitin (bass-baritone), Ingela Brimberg (soprano), Eric Cutler (tenor), Mika Kares (bass), Bernard Richter (tenor), Helene Schneiderman (mezzo-soprano)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Musiciens du Louvre, Les
Marc Minkowski
Recorded: May 2013
Recording Venue: MC2, Grenoble, France

Ouverture

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Act I: Hojohe! Hallojo! Hojoha! Ho!

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Act I: Aria: Die Frist ist um

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Act I: He! Holla! Steuermann!

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Act II: Summ und brumm, du gutes Radchen

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Act II: Johohoe!

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Act II: Bleib, Senta! Bleib nur einen Augenblick!

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Act II: Mein Kind, du siehst mich auf der Schwelle

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Act II: Wie aus der Ferne langst vergang'ner Zeiten

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Act II: Verzeiht! Mein Volk halt draussen sich nicht mehr

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Act III: Steuermann, lass die Wacht!

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Act III: Was musst' ich horen

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Dietsch: Le vaisseau fantome (Le maudit des mers)

Work length1:45:12

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Russell Braun (baritone), Sally Matthews (soprano), Bernard Richter (tenor), Ugo Rabec (bass), Eric Cutler (tenor), Mika Kares (bass)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Musiciens du Louvre, Les
Marc Minkowski
Recorded: May 2013
Recording Venue: MC2, Grenoble, France

Overture

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Act I Tableau 1: Scene 1: Sur cette terre - Vous ne savez pas tout (Eric, Minna, Magnus, Chorus)

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Act I Tableau 1: Scene 3: Pourquoi, Magnus, seul avec moi (Magnus, Minna)

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Act I Tableau 1: Scene 4: Il fait nuit (Minna)

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Act I Tableau 1: Scene 5: Votre pere, Minna! (Minna, Eric)

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Act I Tableau 2: Scene 1: La plus belle de nos filles (Minna, Barlow, Chorus)

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Act I Tableau 2: Scene 1: Ces doux talismans que j'aime (Barlow)

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Act I Tableau 2: Scene 2: Buvez avec nous, camarades! - Silence! (Eric, Scriften, Troil, Minna, Chorus)

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Act I Tableau 2: Scene 4: Quel que soit le courroux de mon pere - Par les vents promenees (Troil, Minna)

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Act I Tableau 2: Scene 5: Ensemble, ils s'aiment (Troil, Minna, Barlow, Magnus, Eric, Chorus)

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Act II: Entracte

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Act II Tableau 3: Scene 1: De la grandeur divine - Dans ce port, a l'abri des tempetes humaines (Magnus, Troil, Chorus)

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Act II Tableau 3: Scene 3: Ici, seule avant l'heure, je vais prier (Minna, Magnus)

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Act II Tableau 3: Scene 3: Desormais plus de plainte - Minna, du nom d'epouse (Magnus, Troil, Minna)

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Act II Tableau 3: Scene 5: Quel secret en ce jour (Troil, Minna)

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Act II Tableau 3: Scene 6: Minna, de cet epoux donne, par votre pere (Troil, Minna, Barlow, Magnus, Chorus)

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23rd December 2013

Schubert from the Pavel Haas Quartet, Pierre-Louis Dietsch’s opera on The Flying Dutchman, two Turnage premieres, and masses by Cipriano de Rore.

When he arrived in Paris on 17 September 1839, the young Richard Wagner aspired to one single ambition: to have his music performed on the stage of the Opéra, for the French capital was, for an operatic composer, the sole temple of posterity. Inspired by reading a novella by Heine he began composing 'Der fliegende Holländer'. Unfortunately, Léon Pillet, the director of the Opéra who took up his post during the summer of 1840, shattered Wagner’s hopes at a stroke. He proposed merely to buy from Wagner his ‘idea’, which he found appealing. To meet an urgent need for funds, Wagner sold the subject of the work to the new management for 500 francs. More precisely, he submitted a synopsis in broken French summarising an operatic adaptation of the story of the Flying Dutchman.

Entrusted to Paul Foucher and Bénédict-Henri Révoil in the summer of 1841, Wagner’s synopsis soon assumed the form of a French libretto, enriched with new influences: Walter Scott’s 'The Pirate', the writings of James Fenimore Cooper, and especially 'The Phantom Ship' by Frederick Marryat (translated into French in 1839 under the title of 'Le Vaisseau fantôme'). Once it had been set to verse by Foucher, it was handed over to the composer Pierre-Louis Dietsch, Léon Pillet's friend and protegée, newly-appointed chorusmaster at the Opéra. Wagner’s missed opportunity with the Paris operatic stage (the first in a long series) therefore gave rise to two distinct works: Dietsch’s 'Le Vaisseau fantôme', performed for the first time at the Paris Opéra on 9 November 1842, and Wagner’s 'Der fliegende Holländer', premiered in Dresden on 2 January 1843.

Founded in 1982 by Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble breathes new life into the Baroque, Classical and Romantic repertoires, performed on period instruments. Recent operatic successes include a Mozart gala for the orchestra’s 30th anniversary and Offenbach’s 'Les Contes d’Hoffmann' (Salle Pleyel); Wagner’s 'Der fliegende Höllander' (Opéra de Versailles, MC2 Grenoble, Theater an der Wien, Palau de la Música in Barcelona); and Mozart’s 'Lucio Silla' at the Salzburg Mozartwoche and Festival, and at the Musikfest Bremen where it has appeared regularly since 1995. The orchestra’s recordings for naïve include the complete ‘London’ Symphonies of Haydn in 2010 and the Schubert symphonies in 2012, bestsellers on the naïve label.

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Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble, Marc Minkowski

Reviews

February 2014

Minkowski and his players give Dietsch all the vitality they can. The cast sings with conviction...Dietsch by turns sounds like Auber, Meyerbeer, even Gounod: elegant, lyrical but never distinctive.. Minkowski's Hollander, though, is an excellent performance, sweeping, vital and atmospheric, carried along by Evgeny Nikitin's dark, resentful Dutchman

April 2014

The matching of Minkowski and his regular orchestra to this repertoire...is an genius...he achieves a clever integration of slow tempi within a basically swift framework. Sally Matthews's Minna has excellent French and well-studied ramatic projection of the role. Evgeny Nikitin's Holländer ideally balances neurosis with mystery.

May 2014

Minkowski casts Wagner's opera with what might be described as 'Meyerbeer' voices...Cutler's high, flexible, French-sounding tenor...sounds more comfortable at the top of his role than heftier Heldentenors. Nikitin's Dutchman, too, is a success...Minkowski gets vivid playing from his Musiciens du Louvre and there is a palpable sense of the dramatic impact the opera must have had in the 1840s.

23rd December 2013

The Dietsch is great fun...Matthews steals the show in the florid but highly dramatic role of Minna. The Wagner’s a revelation too: the period sonorities of Minkowski’s Louvre forces underline just how ‘early’ and Weberish this work feels in comparison to Wagner’s mature style

Opera Now

The Wagner is conducted by Marc Minkowski and played with passion by Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble, the Dietsch with affection. Dietsch’s work is generic but skilfully written...it’s enjoyable and colourful if you think of it as Meyerbeer-lite.

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