Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites

Oehms: OC931

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Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites

Label:

Oehms

Catalogue No:

OC931

Discs:

2

Release date:

19th March 2012

Barcode:

4260034869318

Length:

2 hours 25 minutes

Medium:

CD (download also available)
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Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites


Sally Matthews (Blanche), Yann Beuron (Le Chevalier de la Force), Jean-Philippe Lafont (Le Marquis de la Force), Deborah Polaski (Madame de Croissy), Heidi Brunner (Madame Lidoine), Michelle Breedt (Mère Marie), Hendrickje van Kerckhove (Soeur Constance), Magdalena Anna Hofmann (Mere Jeanne), Christa Ratzenbock (Soeur Mathilde)

ORF Radio Symphonieorchester Wien & Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Bertrand de Billy

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This opera was premiered in La Scala, Milan in 1957 and is currently enjoying a renaissance in many important opera houses. This is a live recording of the celebrated production from the Theater an der Wien and combines performances from 2008 and 2011.

Francis Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmelites, FP 159

playAct I Scene 1: Ou est Blanche? (Le Chevalier, Le Marquis)

playAct I Scene 1: Les soldats surviennent a temps (Le Chevalier, Le Marquis)

playAct I Scene 1: Blanche, votre frere aviat grand'hate de vous revoir (Le Marquis, Blanche, Le Chevalier)

playAct I Scene 1: Son imagination va toujours d'un extreme a l'autre (Le Marquis, Le Chevalier, Blanche, Thierry)

playAct I Scene 1: Je vois qu'il n'y a heuresement rien de grave (Le Marquis, Blanche)

playAct I Scene 1: Mon enfant cherie (Le Marquis, Blanche)

playAct I Scene 2: Prelude

playAct I Scene 2: N'allez pas croire que ce fauteuil (La Prieure, Blanche)

playAct I Scene 2: Je vous que les severites de notre regle (La Prieure, Blanche)

playAct I Scene 2: Ma fille, les bonnes gens se demandent (La Prieure, Blanche)

playAct I Scene 2: Vous pleurez? (La Prieure, Blanche)

playAct I Scene 3: Prelude

playAct I Scene 3: Encore ces maudites feves! (Constance, Blanche)

playAct I Scene 3: Vous n'avez pas honte de parler ainsi (Constance, Blanche)

playAct I Scene 3: Oh! Soeur Blanche (Constance, Blanche)

playAct I Scene 4: Prelude

playAct I Scene 4: Ayez la bonte de relever ce coussin (La Prieure, Mere Marie)

playAct I Scene 4: Je trouve que Blanche de la Force tarde beaucoup (La Prieure, Mere Marie)

playAct I Scene 4: Relevez-vous, ma fille (La Prieure)

playAct I Scene 4: Dieu se glorifie dans ses saints (La Prieure, Blanche)

playAct I Scene 4: Monsieur Javelinot, je vous prie de me donner (La Prieure, M. Javelinot, Mere Marie)

playAct I Scene 4: Mere Marie de l'Incarnation! (La Prieure, Mere Marie)

playAct I Scene 4: La Reverende Mere veut que vous approchiez (Mere Marie, La Prieure, Blanche)

playAct II Scene 1: Qui Lazarum resuscitasti a monumento foetidum (Constance, Blanche)

playAct II Scene I: Que faites-vous? (Mere Marie, Blanche)

playAct II: Interlude: Soeur Blanche, je trouve notre croix (Constance, Blanche)

playAct II: Interlude: Pensez a la mort de notre chere Mere (Constance, Blanche)

playAct II Scene 2: Mes cheres filles (La Nouvelle Prieure)

playAct II Scene 2: Mes Soeurs, sa Reverence vient de nous dire (Mere Marie, Les Carmelites, La Nouvelle Prieure)

playAct II: Interlude: Que se passe-t'il? (La Prieure, Constance, Mere Marie)

playAct II Scene 3: Prelude

playAct II Scene 3: Pourquoi vous tenez-vous ainsi? (Le Chevalier, Blanche)

playAct II Scene 3: Dans des temps comme ceux-ci (Le Chevalier, Blanche)

playAct II Scene 3: Oh! ne me quittez pas sur un adieu de facherie! (Le Chevalier, Blanche)

playAct II Scene 2: Remettez-vous, Soeur Blanche (Mere Marie, Blanche)

playAct II Scene 4: Prelude

playAct II Scene 4: Mes cheres filles (L'Aumonier, Les Carmelites)

playAct II Scene 4: Qu'allez-vous devenir? (Blanche, L'Aumonier, Constance, Mathilde, La Prieure, Mere Marie)

playAct II Scene 4: On a tire la clochette! (Constance, Mathilde, La Foule, L'Aumonier, Les Carmelites, Mere Marie)

playAct II Scene 4: Ou sont les religieuses? (Premier commissaire, Mere Marie, Deuxieme commissaire)

playAct II Scene 4: Mes Soeurs, notre Reverende Mere viendra bientot (Mere Jeanne, Blanche, Mere Marie, La Foule)

playAct III Scene 1: Prelude - Parlez-leur, mon Pere (Mere Marie, L'Aumonier, Mere Jeanne, Mathilde)

playAct III Scene 1: Il y a une seule opposition (Mere Marie, Mathilde, Constance, L'Aumonier)

playAct III: Interlude: Citoyennes, nous vous felicitons (L'Officier)

playAct III: Interlude: Soeur Gerald, il faut absolument prevenir le pretre (La Prieure, Mere Marie)

playAct III Scene 2: Prelude

playAct III Scene 2: C'est vous (Blanche, Mere Marie)

playAct III Scene 2: Soeur Blanche de l'Agonie du Christ! (Mere Marie, Blanche, La voic d'une femme)

playAct III Scene 2: Interlude

playAct III Scene 3: Mes filles, voila que s'acheve (La Prieure, Mere Jeanne, Constance, Mathilde)

playAct III Scene 3: Le Tribunal revolutionnaire (Le Geolier)

playAct III Scene 3: Mes filles, j'ai desire de tout mon coeur (La Prieure)

playAct III: Interlude: Elles sont condamnees a mort (L'Aumonier, Mere Marie)

playAct III Scene 4: Prelude

playAct III Scene 4: Salve Regina (La Foule, Les Carmelites, Constance, Blanche)

International Record Review

May 2012

“The finest singing in this performance comes from its protagonist. Sally Matthews's vocal command exceeds that of any Blanche currently on CD (even EMI's legendary Denise Duval). Her lyric soprano takes on an exciting edge in Blanche's dramatic outbursts, but Matthews also boasts luminous floated pianissimos...[Michelle Breedt] certainly possesses the most beautiful voice of any recorded Marie”

BBC Music Magazine

June 2012

***

“The most successful singers are mezzo-soprano Michelle Breedt who brings the right tone of sympathy to the role of Mere Marie, and soprano Hendricke van Kerckhove whose Soeur Contsnace is delightfully scatty, though also wise beyond her years...The Viennese ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra plays with spirit, even if the string section lacks that essentially French bite and implacability.”

Gramophone Magazine

September 2012

“No neutral restraint (or Brechtian distance) here but an earthy, folky quality...The conductor's pacing and range of tempi here contribute totally to the stage's mounting tension. The recording is effective, straightforward, quite close.”

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