Massenet: Manon

Massenet: Manon

Massenet: Manon
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Performer: Gabriel Bacquier
Performer: Gérard Souzay
Performer: Michel Trempont
Composer: Jules Massenet
Conductor: Julius Rudel
Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra
Performer: Beverly Sills
Performer: Nico Castel
Performer: Nicolai Gedda
Performer: Helia T'hezan
Performer: Michele Raynaud
Performer: Patricia Kern
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2004-05-11
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 1. Hors-d'oeuvre de choix!
  2. Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 1. Entendez-vous la cloche
  3. Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 1. Partez! On sonne!
  4. Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 1. Il vous parlait, Manon? - Regardez-moi bien dans les yeux!
  5. Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 1. Restons ici, puisqu'il le faut! - Voyons, Manon, plus de chimères!
  6. Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 1. Quelqu'un! Vite, à mon banc de pierre! / J'ai marqué l'heure du départ
  7. Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 2. (Introduction orchestrale) Manon! - On l'appelle Manon
  8. Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 2. Enfin, les amoureux
  9. Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 2. Allons! Il le faut! - Adieu, notre petite table
Music CD 2
  1. Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 3. Entracte. Menuet
  2. Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 3. Scene 1. Je marche sur tous les chemins
  3. Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 3. Scene 1. Et maintenant restez seul un instant
  4. Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 3. Scene 1. C'est elle? / Oui, c'est Manon!
  5. Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 3. Scene 2. Je suis seul! Seul enfin! - Ah! fuyez, douce image
  6. Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 3. Scene 2. Ces murs silencieux - Pardonnez-moi, Dieu de toute puissance
  7. Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 3. Scene 2. N'est-ce plus ma main que cette main presse?
Music CD 3
  1. Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 4. Faites vos jeux, Messieurs!
  2. Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 4. Mais qui donc nous arrive et fait tout ce tapage? / De ton coeur, des Grieux - Manon! Sphinx
  3. Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 4. Au jeu! Au jeu!
  4. Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 5. Manon! Pauvre Manon!

Music reviews of Massenet: Manon

Music Review: Finally on Cd!
Rating: 5 Stars

Finally this absolutely sublime "Manon" has been released on CD. The moment I saw it, I ordered it. I always loved Sills in French music, her "Les jeunes filles de Cadix" is ravishingly beautiful. The live Thais from the MET (Not available in the USA) is one of the most moving performances of this sensuos opera. This Manon is one of Sills' crowning achievements, along with her Pamira, Elisabetta (Devereux), early Lucia, Anna Bolena and (YES) her sublime Norma. There is a triple crown of Manons, de los Angeles and Sills in the past and young Fleming today. Cotrubas' performance is beautiful too but not as glorious. Sills' feminine, fragile sound is made for the young Manon, as she develops her character her voice grows darker but never lacks the vocal splendour above the passagio. Her "Adieu notre petite table" is as haunting as Callas' recording and certainly more steady, I treasure both of them highly. Listen how she spins those endless phrases without gaps and flawless legato! What a gorgeous Pianissimo she had, it's lovely! The gambling scene in all its intensity has never been recorded with such a thrill. Sills shows that she was willing to give it all, to surpass every limit. The final scene, IMHO preferable to Puccini's version shows Sills at her best. The agony, love and heavenly passion is absolutely stunning. Being partnered by one of the greatest tenors ever to sing Des Grieux, we have an operatic dream-couple par excellence. (Their live-Lucia is a treasure too!) Gedda sings elegantly, passionately and with a French equalling the great George Thill. Souzay is equally splendid, as is the stupendous, always underrated Baquier. (The most ravishing Athanael and a great Scarpia) Rudel conducts perfectly, him and Sills created so much magic together! (Buy the Devereux video!) This release has been awaited EAGERLY! Now please, PLEASE release Sills' Norma on CD. I have the live-recording with Woolf and I'm totally floored, she even surpasses Sutherland in the vocal department. RUN to buy this recording and beg, blackmail or steal for Sills' Norma! You won't be sorry!
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This recording has been unavailable for too long. Recorded in 1970, a solid year-or-so before Beverly Sills' voice began to show the damage caused by singing Elisabetta I in Donizetti's Roberto Devereux, this is the finest all-around recording of Manon on the market. Sills, in addition to being fresh-voiced, is so thoroughly in the part that we can chart Manon's downfall step by step; her girlish singing is as right on as her sassy, showy coloratura in the thirds act, and her St Sulpice scene is truly seductive. She's the perfect Manon. And Nicolai Gedda's Des Grieux, sung, as is Sills' Manon and the rest of the cast, in impeccable French, is passionate, madly in love, and ultimately tragic. Gabriel Bacquier's Count is imperious and authoritative and Gerard Souzay's Lescaut is smooth. Julius Rudel's leadership sparkles when it should and his sense of French suavity is unfailing. The score is given more than complete - as an appendix, there's an aria for Manon that Massenet added later. This is a desert island disc. --Robert Levine

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