Delibes - Lakm? / Dessay, Kunde, van Dam, Petibon, Haidan, Konsek, Legu?rinel, Plasson
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Composer: L?o DelibesConductor: Michel Plasson
Orchestra: Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
Performer: Natalie Dessay
Performer: Gregory Kunde
Performer: Jos? van Dam
Performer: Patricia Petibon
Performer: Charles Burles
Performer: Franck Legu?rinel
Performer: Delphine Haidan
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-10-20
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Prelude
- Act I: N? 1 Introduction: A l'heure accoutum?e
- Act I: Pri?re: Blanche Dourga
- Act I: N? 1 bis - Sc?ne: Lakm?, c'est toi qui nous prot?ges!
- Act I: N? 2: Viens, Mallika
- Act I: Sc?ne: Miss Rose, Miss Ellen
- Act I: N? 3: Quand une femme est si jolie
- Act I: R?citatif: Nous commettons un sacril?ge
- Act I: N? 4 - Air: Prendre le dessin d'un bijou
- Act I: N? 4 bis - Sc?ne: Non! Je ne veux pas toucher
- Act I: N? 5 - R?citatif & strophes; Les fleurs me paraissent plus belles
- Act I: N? 5 bis - R?citatif: Ah! Mallika! Mallika!
- Act I: N? 6: D'o? viens-tu? Que veux-tu?
- Act I: N? 6 bis - Sc?ne: Viens! l?! l?!
- Act I: Entr'acte
- Act II - First Scene - N? 7: Allons, avant que midi sonne
- Act II - First Scene - N? 7 bis - R?citatif: Enfin! Nous aurons du silence!/N? 8 - Airs de danse
- Act II - First Scene: Introduction
- Act II - First Scene: Ter?na
- Act II - First Scene: Rektah
- Act II - First Scene: Persian
- Act II - First Scene: Coda avec chours: Ah! Ah! Par nos yeux charm?s
- Act II - First Scene: Sortie
- Act II - First Scene: R?citatif: Voyez donc ce vieillard
- Act II - First Scene - N? 9 - Sc?ne & Stances: Ah! Ce vieillard encor!
- Act II - First Scene - N? 9 bis - R?citatif: Ah! c'est de ta douleur
- Act II - First Scene - N? 10 - Sc?ne & l?gende de la fille du Paria (Air des clochettes): Ah!... P
- Act II - First Scene - N? 11 - Sc?ne: La rage me d?vore
- Act II - First Scene - N? 12 - Sc?ne & chour: Au milieu des chants d'all?gresse
- Act II - First Scene - N? 12 bis - R?citatif: Le maitre ne pense qu'? sa vengeance
- Act II - First Scene - N? 13: Lakm?! Lakm?! C'est toi!
- Act II - First Scene - N? 14 - Finale: O Dourga, toi qui renais
- Act II - First Scene: Entr'acte
- Act III - N? 15 - Berceuse: Sous le ciel tout ?toile
- Act III - N? 15 bis - R?citatif: Quel vague souvenir alourdit ma pens?e?
- Act III - N? 16 - Cantil?ne: Lakm?! Lakm?! Ah! viens dans la for?t profonde
- Act III - N? 17 - Sc?ne & chour: L?, je pourrai t'entendre
- Act III - N? 18 - Sc?ne: Vivant!
- Act III - N? 20 - Finale: C'est lui! C'est lui!
Music reviews of Delibes - Lakm? / Dessay, Kunde, van Dam, Petibon, Haidan, Konsek, Legu?rinel, Plasson
Music Review: practically perfect
Rating: 5 Stars
I just finished listening to this Lakme recording for the first time. I am mesmerized by both the cast and the music. [...].
The beauty of this recording is that there are no weak links. Dessay, Kunde, and Van Dam, all turn in performances that are practically perfect. Dessay seems to have been born to sing this role to perfection. She gives a youthful believable Lakme; her voice... that brilliant coloratura soprano... is exquisite and well suited to this role.
[...]
It is the recommended recording in Ted Libby's The NPR Listener's Encyclopedia of Classical Music both for the opera, and for Delibes' work in general. Lakme has to be in the top 5 of French operas. If you are adding French opera to your collection, I would highly recommend this recording.
Description of Delibes - Lakm? / Dessay, Kunde, van Dam, Petibon, Haidan, Konsek, Legu?rinel, Plasson
For all its exotically tinged, trademark Orientalism, so fashionable in late-19th-century France, Delibe's opera Lakm? is at heart a simple story of tragically misplaced love. This marvelous and sensitively wrought interpretation renders the intensity of that love story with a surprising emotional credibility. Conductor Michel Plasson allows the music's arching melodies to breathe and unfold leisurely, like a lovingly cultivated floral display; he even discovers hidden nuances within the formulaic fluff that pads Delibe's score. And his vision is shared by the outstanding principals here. As the titular Hindu princess, Natalie Dessay gives a jewel-like performance, full of stunningly shaped phrases and tapered notes that sound like spun silk (and one that can favorably compare with Joan Sutherland's account on London). Yet she also offers substance where others are satisfied with mere vocal beauty, conveying both the fatal innocence of her character and an intense capacity to suffer. Gregory Kunde portrays the English interloper Gerald with moving tenderness, while he manages the high tessitura of the part with elegance and flexibility. There's a sense of shared vulnerability that the pair bring to their first duet, one of several unforgettable touches on this recording. The cast is filled out with rich characterizations, most notably Jos? Van Dam's imposingly authoritarian Nilakantha. The subtle intimacy of detail Plasson inspires throughout as well as the fine engineering makes this recording a winner. --Thomas MayGeneral CDs
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