This page lists all recordings of Mon cœur est plein d'un noir soucis... Anges du Paradis (from Mireille), by Charles François Gounod (1818-93) on CD. Generally, more recent releases are listed first, but with priority given to those that are in stock. |
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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Alain Vanzo: French Arias
Alain Vanzo was born in Monaco in April 1928 and was apparently a gifted musician from an early age. From an inauspicious start, he was eventually heard by a singing teacher who recognised his talents, and from that point on, he was lucky enough to be integrated into the French music scene where he triumphed in various performances. He made his debut at the Pera and the Opera-Comique in 1957, going on to sing the Duke of Mantua that same year. He became known and respected as a lyric tenor and matured towards a more robust tenor, culminating in him taking on Werther at aged 40 and Don Jose at aged 45. By the time he reached the age of 48, and after his performance of Faust in 1976 in the US, he had become a star and this disc shows exactly why he was so well respected. | 
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| |  | Arias by Gounod and Massenet
“This is mostly well-planned and executed recital mixes favourites with extracts from operas that have remained rarities, even with the increased interest in late 19th-century repertory. It begins with Rodrigue's great prayer, 'O souverain' from Act 3 of Le Cid. Rolando Villazón sings this with an attractive quiet introspection to start with, but then there is metal and passion in his voice for the climax. Of the other well-known Massenet items, it's good to hear Werther's 'Lorsque l'enfant' as well as the show-stopping 'Pourquoi me réveiller?'. In 'En fermant les yeux' from Manon, Natalie Dessay provides Manon's brief phrases, and Villazón makes a really sensitive dreamer. 'Ah, fuyez' goes well too, but it will be the arias from Roma, Grisélidis and Le Mage that will attract most listeners. In all Massenet's output is there a more seductive tune than the one that forms the centre of the Roma scene, 'Soir admirable'? This is done very well by Warren Mok in the complete recording, but Villazón outshines him.
Of the Gounod arias, Faust's 'Salut demeure' fares the best, but again it will be the extracts from Polyeucte and La Reine de Saba that will please immediately.
Villazón has established himself as one of the most promising among the new generation of tenors. His French has improved recently, butthere is the odd difficulty still with certain vowels.
Accompaniment, recording and presentation are first-rate.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Nicolai Gedda in OperaRecordings From 1952-1957
The recordings for this 2 CD set have been carefully selected to show to advantage the extraordinary control Gedda has over his vocal resources and also to demonstrate his remarkable gift for language. The French opera excerpts all display an appealing sense of style together with excellent musicianship, both traits so much admired in the 19th and early 20th centuries. His Russian scenes and arias have an authentic ring, his German highly romantic and his Italian arias although his voice does not possess that particular Mediterranean warmth, do nevertheless have a sense of morbidezza (tenderness) usually more associated with the Latin tenor. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Clara Clairbert (soprano) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Adam: | Un regard de ses yeux (from Si j’étais roi) | Audran: | Des courtisans qui passeront (from La mascotte) | Beydts: | Cette escarpolette a son histoire (from Moineau) L’amour, hélas, ça va, ça vient (from Moineau) | Bizet: | Je crois entendre encore (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles) | Boieldieu: | Viens, gentille dame (from La Dame blanche) | Delibes: | Fantaisie aux divins mensonges (Lakmé) | Donizetti: | Un ange, une femme inconnue (from La Favorite) La Maiˆtresse du Roi?…Ange si pur” (from La Favorite) | Drigo: | Un soir, tout vibrant d’espoir (from Les millions d’Arlequin) | Flégier: | Le beau rêve | Frings: | Premier rondel Deuxième rondel Troisième rondel Quatrième rondel Joujou | Gounod: | La brise est douce et parfumée (from Mireille) Le jour se lève (from Mireille) Mon cœur est plein d'un noir soucis... Anges du Paradis (from Mireille) | Hérold: | Ô ma tendre amie (from Le Pré-aux-clercs) | Lehár: | Patiently smiling from The Land of Smiles sung in French as 'Toujours sourire' You are my heart's delight from The Land of Smiles sung in French as 'Je t’ai donné mon cœur' Frasquita (highlights) sung in French | Maillart: | Ne parle pas, Ros e, je t'en supplie (from Les Dragons de Villars) | Massenet: | Instant charmant … En fermant les yeux (from Manon) Ce monde que je vois ... Ah, qu'il est loin, mon pays (from Sapho) Je suis l'oiseau (from Grisélidis) Ô liberté, ma mie (from Le jongleur de Notre-Dame) | Messager: | Je suis très tendre (from Fortunio) J’aimais la vieille maison grise (from Fortunio) Si vous croyez que je vais dire (from Fortunio) Une angoisse exquise et mortelle (from Fortunio) | Offenbach: | Le jugement de Pâris - Au Mont Ida (from La Belle Hélène) | Planquette: | Va, petit mousse (from Les cloches de Corneville) Je regardais en l’air (from Les cloches de Corneville) | Rimsky Korsakov: | Song of the Hindu Guest (from Sadko) sung in French as 'Les diamants, chez nous, sont innombrables' | Rossini: | Ecco, ridente in cielo (from Il Barbiere di Siviglia) sung in French as 'Doux rayons de l’aurore' | Thomas, Ambroise: | Adieu, Mignon! Courage! (Mignon) | Varney: | Il serait vrai que ce fut un songe (from Les mousquetaires au couvent) | Verdi: | Questa o quella (from Rigoletto) sung in French as 'Qu’une belle' |
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| |  | Nicolai Gedda: Lyric Poet of the Tenor Voice85th Birthday
Adam: | Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire (from Le Postillon de Lonjumeau) | Auber: | Du pauvre seul ami fidèle (from La Muette de Portici) | Bach, J S: | Cantata BWV189 'Meine Seele ruhmt und preist' Cantata BWV55 'Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht' Cantata BWV160 'Ich weiß, daß mein Erloeser lebt' St Matthew Passion, BWV244: Geduld, Geduld Mass in B minor: Benedictus | Beethoven: | Christus am Ölberge: Jehova, du mein Vater...Meine Seele ist erschüttert Adelaide, Op. 46 An die ferne Geliebte (To the distant beloved), Op. 98 | Bellini: | Prendi l'anel ti dono (from La Sonnambula) | Berlioz: | Une heure encore (from Benvenuto Cellini) Seul pour lutter, seul avec mon courage (from Benvenuto Cellini) | Bizet: | Au fond du temple saint (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles) A cette voix quel trouble… Je crois entendre encore (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles) La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (from Carmen) | Cilea: | È la solita storia 'Lamento di Federico' (from L'Arlesiana) | Delibes: | Lakmé! Lakmé! Ah! Viens dans la forêt profonde (from Lakmé) | Donizetti: | Quanto è bella, quanto è cara! (from L'Elisir d'amore) Una furtiva lagrima (from L'elisir d'amore) Tombe degl'avi miei … Fra poco a me ricovero...Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali (from Lucia di Lammermoor) Povero Ernesto...cercherò lontano terra (from Don Pasquale) Com'é gentil…Tornami a dir (from Don Pasquale) Spirto gentil ne' sogni miei (from La Favorita) | Flotow: | Jungfrau Maria (from Alessandro Stradella) Ach, so fromm (from Martha) | Glinka: | A Life for the Tsar: Bratsï! V metel', v nevedomoy glushi | Gluck: | Alceste : Air d'Admete 'Bannis la crainte et les alarmes Unis des la plus tendre enfance (from Iphigénie en Tauride) Divinité des grandes âmes (from Iphigénie en Tauride) Che puro ciel (Orfeo ed Euridice) French version J'ai perdu mon Eurydice (from Orphée et Eurydice) | Goldmark: | Magische Töne, berauschender Duft (from Die Königin von Saba) | Gounod: | Quel trouble inconnu me pénètre… Salut! Demeure chaste et pure (from Faust) Mon cœur est plein d'un noir soucis... Anges du Paradis (from Mireille) L'amour, l'amour... Ah, lève-toi soleil (from Roméo et Juliette) | Kalman: | Tanzen Möcht' ich (from Die Csárdásfürstin) Wenn es Abendd … Grüß mir mein Wien (from Gräfin Mariza) Auch ich war einst ein feiner Csárdákavalier … Komm, Zigan (from Gräfin Mariza) Heut' Nacht hab' ich geträumt von Dir (from Das Veilchen von Montmartre) | Lalo: | Vainement, ma bien-aimée (from Le roi d’Ys) | Lehár: | Gern hab' ich die Frau'n geküßt (from Paganini) Allein, wieder allein (from Der Zarewitsch) Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (from Das Land des Lächelns) O Mädchen, mein Mädchen (from Friederike) | Lortzing: | Lebe wohl, mein flandrisch Mädchen (from Zar und Zimmermann) | Massenet: | Instant charmant … En fermant les yeux (from Manon) Je suis seul, seul enfin... Ah fuyez douce image (from Manon) Un autre est son époux! Traduire! (from Werther) | Mendelssohn: | Elijah: Ye people, rend your hearts Elijah: If with all your hearts | Meyerbeer: | Beauté Divine (from Les Huguenots) Ô Paradis (from L'Africaine) | Millöcker: | Ich hab' kein Geld, bin vogelfrei (from Der Bettelstudent) | Mozart: | Konstanze, Konstanze...O wie ängstlich (from Die Entführung aus dem Serail) In Mohrenland gefangen war (from Die Entführung aus dem Serail) Un'aura amorosa del nostro tesoro (from Così fan tutte) Se all' Impero (from La Clemenza di Tito) Per pieta, non ricercate KV 420 Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön (from Die Zauberflöte) Dalla sua pace (from Don Giovanni) Il mio tesoro intanto (from Don Giovanni) | Mussorgsky: | At midnight, in the garden, by the fountain (from Boris Godunov) That wily Jesuit has firmly seized me (from Boris Godunov) Why my sad heart? (from Sorochinsky Fair) | Nicolai, C O: | Horch, die Lerche singt im Hain! 'Romance' (from Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor) | Offenbach: | Va pour Kleinzach...Il était une fois à la cour (from Les Contes d'Hoffmann) | Ponchielli: | Cielo e mar! (from La Gioconda) | Puccini: | Donna non vidi mai (from Manon Lescaut) Che gelida manina (from La Bohème) Recondita armonia (from Tosca) E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca) Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malia (from Madama Butterfly) Nessun dorma (from Turandot) | Rimsky Korsakov: | Solynshko nizko, vecher uzh blisko (The sun is low, the evening is approaching) (from May Night) Kak tikho, kak prokhladno tut! (How peaceful, how fresh it is here!) (from May Night) Song of the Hindu Guest (from Sadko) | Rossini: | Asile héréditaire (from Guillaume Tell) Ecco, ridente in cielo (from Il Barbiere di Siviglia) | Rousseau, J-J: | Je vais revoir ma charmante maîtresse... Quand on sait (from Le Devin du Village) | Schubert: | Die schöne Müllerin, D795 | Straus, O: | Ich hab' mit Freuden angehört (from Ein Walzertraum) | Strauss, J, II: | Eine Nacht in Venedig: Komm in die Gondel Als flotter Geist (from Der Zigeunerbaron) | Tchaikovsky: | Kuda, Kuda 'Lensky's Aria' (from Eugene Onegin) Forgive me, loveliest of creatures (from Pique Dame) What is our life? A game! (from Pique Dame) | Thomas, Ambroise: | Adieu, Mignon! Courage! (Mignon) | Verdi: | Ella mi fu rapita! (from Rigoletto) Parmi veder le lagrime (from Rigoletto) La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto) Di' tu se fedele (from Un ballo in maschera) Forse la soglia attinse (from Un ballo in maschera) Se quel guerrier io fossi!…Celeste Aida (from Aida) Ingemisco (from Requiem) | Wagner: | In fernem Land (from Lohengrin) Mein lieber Schwan (from Lohengrin) | Weber: | Nein! länger trag' ich nicht die Qualen…Durch die Wälder (from Der Freischütz) Von Jugend auf in dem Kampfgefild (from Oberon) Vater! Hör' mich flehn zu dir! (from Oberon) |
and lieder by Faure, Poulenc, Debussy, Hahn, Mendelssohn, Strauss, Grieg, Alfven, Peterson-Berger, Sjöberg, Sibelius, Rachmaninoff, Veracini, Respighi, Turina, Curtis, Bixio, Rotter, Tauber, Stolz,
“Gedda's standard of vocalisation and his grasp of many styles are uniformly excellent...his humour is always special, as is the technique which sees quite a light voice safely through "Nessun Dorma" and the Butterfly duet.” Gramophone Magazine, June 2010 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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