Maurice Ravel: L'Heure Espagnole

L' heure espagnole, opera in 1 act
Composed by Maurice Ravel
Performed by Orchestra National de la R.T.F.
with Jose Van Dam, Jane Berbie, Gabriel Bacquier, Michel Senechal, Jean Giraudeau
Conducted by Lorin Maazel

Maurice Ravel: L'Heure Espagnole,José Van Dam,Maurice Ravel,Lorin Maazel,Orchestre National de la R.T.F.,Jean Giraudeau,Michel Sénéchal,Gabriel Bacquier,Jane Berbie,Polygram Records,Classical,Classical Music,French 20th/21st Century Opera,Opera

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Un repertorio nuevo para Magdalena Kozena
Pure!

French Arias

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Ah! Quelle Nuit!... Flamme Vengeresse
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Having dazzled us with her coloratura ability in arias by Mozart, Gluck, and her fellow Czech, Myslivecek, this luscious young mezzo-soprano now offers us a generous program of French arias--15 of them, widely varied in tone, weight, dramatic intent, and style--and conquers and convinces in them all. Beginning again in coloratura territory, an aria from Auber's rare Le domino noir catches our attention with the heroine's opening words, "Je suis sauvée enfin!" ("I am safe at last!"), in which she paints the picture of our out-of-breath heroine immediately. Throughout the CD we meet the doomed, tragic Sappho in Gounod's opera; Dulcinée in the same composer's Don Quichotte, here presented first as lamenting lover, then as spitfire, with Kozena reaching down into her most sultry chest voice; a dreamy Marguerite in Berlioz's La damnation de Faust; a Princess languorously singing of the night in an exquisite aria from Gounod's all-but-unknown Cinq-Mars; and many others, each of whom Kozena imbues with her individual stamp, flawless technique, musicality, and beautiful tone. Almost as a bonus, the CD ends with Carmen's Gypsy Song - a real razzle-dazzler. Kozena is a great singer and this is a great recital CD--a must. --Robert Levine

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Un repertorio nuevo para Magdalena Kozena.......2005-07-13

MAGDALENA KOZENA es una mezzosoprano basicamente ligada al barroco, y particularmente a Bach y Haendel. Sorprende por tanto la aparición de este cd dodne interpreta un variado abanico de arias francesas, roles que no ha debutado en teatro y que se alejan de su estilo habitual.
Aun así, Kozena canta estas arias divinamente con estilo propio: impone un timbre seductor, claro y mórbido y un dominio absoluto del canto, aunque el registro agudo no es siempre todo lo homogeneo que sería deseable. Con todo, su interpretación de estas páginas es notable y sorprendente.
Otra baza del disco es el repertorio, que incluye arias de óperas más bien desconocidas, como 'Cleopatre' de Massenet, 'Le Cincq-Mars', 'La dame Blanche', 'Don Quixote', 'Sapho', 'Le domino Noir'....junto a otras más habituales del repertorio como 'Carmen' (aunque no está la popular habanera), 'Don Carlos' (en su versión francesa) o 'La Hora Española', además de un aria para Niclausse de 'Los Cuentos de Hoffmann' que suele cortarse en la mayoría de las representaciones. La selección es acertada y gratificante.
La orquesta, al mano de un MARK MINKOWSKI que siempre se ha interesado mucho por este repertorio, suena a las mil maravillas, y es complemento perfecto para la mezzo. Lo mismo puede decirse del coro y de las más que correctas voces escogidas para algunas partes solistas de arias puntuales.
En conclusión, este 'French Opera Arias' de Kozena es un cd muy recomendable, complemento perfecto a los recientes registros del mismo título de Natalie Dessay y Rolando Villazón (ambos en Virgin Classics)

Pure!.......2004-02-12

this mzzo-soprano is great... she is a lighter and lyric mezzo. In this album... she sung the french arias with phrasing in detail... especially in the "Nuit Resplendissante". The balance between head vioce and chest voice in her singing is good. Her singing can really touches my heart...
it is worthy to buy this album... especially than you are tired in listening to the darker or dramatic mezzo-sopranos.

Rimsky-Korsakov, Ravel & Stravinsky: Orchestral Works

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Wonderful recording of a wonderful show
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Tracks:

L'Heure espagnole: Introduction
L'Heure espagnole: Scene I: Senor Torquemada, horloger de Tolede?
L'Heure espagnole: Scene II: Totor!
L'Heure espagnole: Scene III: II reste, viola bien ma chance!
L'Heure espagnole: Scene IV: II etait temps, voici Gonzalve!
L'Heure espagnole: Scene V: C'est fait, I'horloge est a sa place
L'Heure espagnole: Scene VI: Maintenant pas de temps a perdre!
L'Heure espagnole: Scene VII: Salut a la belle horogere!
L'Heure espagnole: Scene VIII: Voila!...Et maintenant a l'autre!
L'Heure espagnole: Scene IX: Evidemment, elle me congedie
L'Heure espagnole: Scene X: Voila ce que j'appelle une femme charmante
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XI: Monsieur, ah! Monsieur!
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XII: Enfin, il part!
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XIII: Voila l'objet!
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XIV: Ah! vous, n'est-ce pas, preste! leste!
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XV: En depit de cette inhumaine
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XVI: Voila ce que j'appelle une femme charmante!
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XVII: Oh! la pitoyable aventure!
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XVIII: Voila!...Et Maintenant, Senora
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XIX: Mon oeil anxieux interroge
L'Heure espagnole: Adieu, cellule, adieu, donjon!
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XX: II n'est, pour l'horloger
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XXI: Pardieu, demenageur, vous venez a propos!
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XXI: Un financier...Et un poete
Capriccio espagnol: Alborada: Vivo e strepitoso - attacca
Capriccio espagnol: Variazioni: Andante con moto - attacca
Capriccio espagnol: Alborada: Vivo e strepitoso
Capriccio espagnol: Scene e canto gitano: Allegretto - Attacca
Capriccio espagnol: Fandango asturiano

Tracks:

L'Enfant et les sortileges: J'ai pas envie de faire ma page
L'Enfant et les sortileges: Bebe a ete sage?
L'Enfant et les sortileges: Ca m'est egal!
L'Enfant et les sortileges: Votre serviteur humble, Bergere
L'Enfant et les sortileges: Ding, ding, ding, ding
L'Enfant et les sortileges: How's Your Mug?
L'Enfant et les sortileges: Keng-ca-fou, Mah-jong
L'Enfant et les sortileges: Oh! Ma belle tasse chinoise!
L'Enfant et les sortileges: Arriere! Je rechauffe les bons
L'Enfant et les sortileges: Adieu, pastourelles!
L'Enfant et les sortileges: Ah! C'est Elle! C'est Elle!
L'Enfant et les sortileges: Toi, le coeur de la rose
L'Enfant et les sortileges: Deux robinets coulent dans un reservoir!
L'Enfant et les sortileges: Oh! ma tete
L'Enfant et les sortileges: Duo miaule
L'Enfant et les sortileges: Musique d'insectes, de rainettes, etc.
L'Enfant et les sortileges: Ah! Quelle joie de te retrouver, Jardin!
L'Enfant et les sortileges: Ou es tu? Je te cherche
L'Enfant et les sortileges: Ronde des Chauves-Souris - Rends-la moi...tsk, tsk...
L'Enfant et les sortileges: Danse des rainettes
L'Enfant et les sortileges: Sauve-toi, sotte! Et la cage? La cage?
L'Enfant et les sortileges: La cage, c'etait pour mieux voir ta prestesse
L'Enfant et les sortileges: Ah! C'est L'Enfant au couteau!
L'Enfant et les sortileges: II a panse la plaie...
L'Enfant et les sortileges: II est bon, L'Enfant, il est sage
Le Chant du Rossignol: Presto - Andantino - Tempo I
Le Chant du Rossignol: Marche chinoise
Le Chant du Rossignol: Chant du rossignol
Le Chant du Rossignol: Jeu du rossignol mecanique

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one of my top 50 classical albums.......2006-08-25

This album has a place on my top fifty list; it's one that deserves a place in any and every collection once you've gotten through the first round of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven must-haves. The Ravel operettas are marvelous, and unlike anything else in the repertoire, and the two orchestral suites are required listening. All of this is music that came out of Paris in the early 20th century, when Paris was the artistic capital of the world; it's a welcome change, then, to (as the French have so quaintly put it) leave out the "sauerkraut" -- as the large majority of first-rate classical music has been so distinctly Teutonic -- and immerse yourself in Gallic styles and forms.

The one piece of these four that I do not find completely captivating is L'heure espagnole. I don't think this little operetta works very well on record: it strikes me as an opera of recitatives -- no arias, no big hummable tunes -- so that without seeing it staged you're missing so much of the content. The orchestral writing is subtle and colorful and the story is highly amusing, but again the music doesn't work so well on its own.

L'enfant et les sortilèges, on the other hand, is above criticism as performed here. I have an unreserved admiration for this opera. Quinessentially Ravelian melody and orchestral writing, wonderful characters, far-reaching thematic contrast and expressive range: this one has it all.

As for the orchestral pieces, Capriccio espagñol is a minor work next to L'enfant et les sortilèges and Chant du rossignol, but if you like Scheherezade you'll like Capriccio espagñol as well, and the Berlin Philharmonic's reading is first-rate. And this is easily my favorite performance of Stravinsky's Chant du rossignol. I know the Boulez/NYP recording, Oue/Minnesota, and Reiner/Chicago, but Maazel breathes fire and drive into the score that outdoes all of those.

Opera ?...who knew?.......2005-10-19

These must be the definitive versions of all 4 compositions. Recorded in 1958, 59, 61 and 65 they still remain the yardstick of every subsequent issue and in my humble opinion, have not been bettered yet. Oh when Maazel was a young man could he "flail and wail". Just listen to Le Chant du Rossignol and Capriccio Espagnole and you might find yourself conducting the orchestra from YOUR music room. Exciting, beguiling, subtle finesse and oh yeah DYNAMICS. I'm a Rock musician so I know Dynamics (Ya think?). DGs transfer to CD is impeccable. Transparent, spacious and electrifying. Boy is this good stuff...

Frighteningly Good!.......2004-04-07

When one comes across recordings like this there's always a risk of hyperbole. As simple as possible: these are exciting, inspiring, near-perfect performances of the Ravel operas. The engineering matches in quality. If you like Ravel, if you like opera, or if you're just curious about what a "near-perfect" performance sounds like then jump at this set. Also, the fillers are equally stunning. I've never heard (or even hoped for) a Capriccio Espagnol as striking as the one included. This collection, along with DG's release of Maazel's Firebird and El Amor Brujo (in this same series--and also great) has prompted a re-examination of earlier recordings by Lorin Maazel. Thanks DG and...Wow!

Wonderful recording of a wonderful show.......2001-11-24

I was in a production of 'L'enfant...' last year, and was unable to find the recording in any of our local music stores. I finally found it, and it was worth the wait, especially coupled with Ravel's other work.
It's my favorite opera by Ravel, who is in turn my favorite composer.
Good stuff.

Ravel at his most playful - a farce and a nightmare........2001-07-05

There aren't nearly enough farces in opera, and 'L'heure Espagnole' is one of the funniest, as well as one of the weirdest. It's been called Feydeauesque, but that's Feydeau rewritten by Hoffmann - instead of hiding in cupboards or running in and out of bedrooms, the various inadequate lovers conceal themselves in clocks carried up to the amative wife's bedroom by a dim, but brawny muleteer.

The music is a delight, Ravel revelling in his beloved Spanish idiom, and creating wonderful comic effects with a huge orchestra used with the lightness of a pencil. Most astonishing is the recreation of a clock shop, with its conflicting rhythms, parodying the necessity of time in music by creating an amiably arhythmic din. The opera is also a neat satire on the bourgeoisie, with an apparently hoodwinked clockmaker profiting from his wife's infidelities.

If 'L'heure' is a satiric farce, than 'L'enfant et les sortileges' is a fantasy and a nightmare. A sullen brat is grounded for not doing his homework. In a violent fit he vandalises his bedroom. Frighteningly, shards of the household gods come to life, taunting, abusing and inflicting dreadful violence on the boy. Colette's wonderfully playful libretto has been called a Disneyesque morality tale, but the sadistic relish with which the boy is made to learn his lesson has the cruelty of older, European traditions.

Highlights include the jazzy ire of a broken teapot, the harrowing fragmentation of a princess and her fairy tale, and a gloriously Ravelian recreation of a magical garden, full of wonder and violence. The music is a Miro painting come to life, all wit and colour, strange sounds and shapes: enigmatic, scary, delicious.

Tracks:

L'Heure espagnole: Introduction
L'Heure espagnole: Scene I: (Senor Torquemada, horloger de Tolede?)
L'Heure espagnole: Scene II: (Totor!)
L'Heure espagnole: Scene III: (Il reste, viola bien ma chance!)
L'Heure espagnole: SceneIV: (Il etart temps , voici Gonzalve!)
L'Heure espagnole: Scene V: (C'est fait, I'horloge est a sa place)
L'Heure espagnole: Scene VI: (Maintenant pas de temps a perdre!)
L'Heure espagnole: Scene VII: (Salut a la belle horlogere!)
L'Heure espagnole: Scene VII: (Viola !...Et Maintenant a l'autre!)
L'Heure espagnole: Scene IX: (Evidemment, elle me congedie)
L'Heure espagnole: Scene X: (Voila ce que j'appelle une femme charmente)
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XI: (Monsieur, ah! Monsieru!)
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XII: (Enfin, il part!)
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XIII: (Voila l'objet!)
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XIV: (Ah! vous, n'est-ce pas, preste! leste!)
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XV: (En depit de vette inhumaine)
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XVI: (Voila ce que j'applle une femme charmante!)
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XVII: (Oh! la pitoyable aventure!)
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XVIII: (Voila!...Et maintenant, Senora, je suis pret)
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XIX: (Mon ceil anxieux interroge)
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XIX: (Adieu, cellule, adieu, donhon!)
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XX: (Il n'est, pout l'horloger, de joie egale)
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XXI: (Pardieu, demenageur, vous venez a propos!)
L'Heure espagnole: Scene XXI: (Un finacier...-...Et un poete)
Rapsode espagnole: I. Prelude a la nuit: Tres modere
Rapsodie espagnole: II. malaguena: Assez vif
Ropsodie espagnole: III. Habanera: Assez lent et d'un rythme las
Ropsodie espagnole: IV. Feria. Assiz anime

Ravel: L'heure espagnole; L'enfant et les sortilèges

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Ravel: L'heure espagnole; L'enfant et les sortilèges
Maurice Ravel , Ernest Bour , Angelici , Krieger , and Dufranne
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Tracks:

L'heure Espagnole: Introduction - J. AUBERT
L'heure Espagnole: Senor Torquemada, Horloger De Tolede? - J. AUBERT
L'heure Espagnole: Hector! - J. AUBERT
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L'heure Espagnole: Ah! Ah! Ah! - J. AUBERT
L'heure Espagnole: C'est Faint, L'horloge De Tolede? - J. AUBERT
L'heure Espagnole: Maintenant Pas De Temps A Perdre! - J. AUBERT
L'heure Espagnole: Salut A La Belle Horlogere! - J. AUBERT
L'heure Espagnole: Voila!.... Et Maintenant A L'autre! - J. AUBERT
L'heure Espagnole: Evidemment, Elle Me Congredie - J. AUBERT
L'heure Espagnole: Voila Ce Que J'appelle Une Femme Charmante - J. AUBERT
L'heure Espagnole: Monsieur, Ah! Monsieur! - J. AUBERT
L'heure Espagnole: Enfin, Il Part! - J. AUBERT
L'heure Espagnole: Voila L'objet! Que Faut-il Que J'en Fasse? - J. AUBERT
L'heure Espagnole: Ah! Vous, N'est-ce Pas, Preste! - J. AUBERT
L'heure Espagnole: En Depit De Cette Inhumaine - J. AUBERT
L'heure Espagnole: Voila Ce Que J'appelle Une Femme Charmante - J. AUBERT
L'heure Espagnole: Oh! La Pitoyable Aventure! - J. AUBERT
L'heure Espagnole: Voila!... Et Maintenant, Senora, Je Suis Pret - J. AUBERT
L'heure Espagnole: Mon Oeil Anxieux Interroge - J. AUBERT
L'heure Espagnole: Il N'est, Pour L'horloger, De Joie Egale - J. AUBERT
L'heure Espagnole: Pardieu, Demenageur, Vous Venez A Propos! - J. AUBERT

Tracks:

L'enfant Et Les Sortileges: Part 1 - La Maison: Part 1 - Martha Angelici
L'enfant Et Les Sortileges: Part 1 - La Maison: Part 2 - Martha Angelici
L'enfant Et Les Sortileges: Part 1 - La Maison: Part 3 - Martha Angelici
L'enfant Et Les Sortileges: Part 1 - La Maison: Part 4 - Martha Angelici
L'enfant Et Les Sortileges: Part 1 - La Maison: Part 5 - Martha Angelici
L'enfant Et Les Sortileges: Part 1 - La Maison: Part 6 - Martha Angelici
L'enfant Et Les Sortileges: Part 1 - La Maison: Part 7 - Martha Angelici
L'enfant Et Les Sortileges: Part 2 - Le Jardin: Part 1 - Martha Angelici
L'enfant Et Les Sortileges: Part 2 - Le Jardin: Part 2 - Martha Angelici
L'enfant Et Les Sortileges: Part 2 - Le Jardin: Part 3 - Martha Angelici
L'enfant Et Les Sortileges: Part 2 - Le Jardin: Part 4 - Martha Angelici
L'enfant Et Les Sortileges: Part 2 - Le Jardin: Part 5 - Martha Angelici

The Last Dance: Music for a Vanishing Era (The Music Heard on the Fateful Voyage of the Titanic)

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An excellent recording.

The Last Dance: Music for a Vanishing Era (The Music Heard on the Fateful Voyage of the Titanic)

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Petite Marche Viennoise
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Customer Reviews:

An excellent recording........1999-03-22

I cannot think of anything better to say than the caption on the album itself: "A tender soiree, a romantic tete-a-tete, the anticipation of a jour fixe are what come to mind when listening to this album of fond reminiscences from a vanished but perhaps more colourful and intimate era. As an expression of a quite definite spirit of an epoch, the music on this recording is romantic without being sentimental, colourful but never flamboyant, and intimate whilst avoiding excessive stylisation."

Tracks:

Vois Sous L'archet Fremissant
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Customer Reviews:

Lovely Work.......2004-06-07

This is simply a lovely album, full of many pleasant surprises as far as the material goes, not simply the usual suspects. Larmore has never sounded better. I hope the fact that it took two years to be released is not indicative of a lack of Teldec's commitment to this supremely talented singer.

A True Star.......2004-02-28

Another great CD from the star mezzo! The Massenet selections are very exciting (full recording of Werther should be in order) but it's Sapho (Gounod) that is the highlight. Stunning. Great conducting by de Billy. Thank you Jennifer!

Absolutely hilarious and very special CD.......2003-12-20

Jennifer larmore is one of worlds leading sopranos. this Cd has
astounding absolutely fantastic collection of french arias.
the best is ``O ma lyre immortelle`` from Gounod``s rarely
performed masterpiece ``Sappho``.This is really well performed.
the rest lacks a little of emotional activity, stays vague and
a bit obscure- ``Enfin je suis ici`` sounds like she were not
arriving, though the text of the aria should reassure us.
peeter Hollberg, jennifer larmore fan from rocca al Mare suburbia , tallinn, Estonia

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Ravel's other chamber opera, done to perfection

Maurice Ravel: L'Heure Espagnole

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Customer Reviews:

Ravel's other chamber opera, done to perfection.......2005-09-25

This work and its companion "L'engant et les sortileges," can be got on a double CD in DG's Originals series, but many people might already have the second opera, since it is so much more famous. If you want "L'heure espagnole" by itself, this recording is a total delight--witty, perfectly sung by an exemplary French-speaking cast that includes the young Jose van Dam, stylish, and in great sound. It was recorded in 1965 under Maazel with the same verve he brough to his equaly delightful "L'enfant." A must-have for anyone who loves Ravel.

Ravel: L'Heure Espagnole/Don Quichotte A Dulcinee-Jordan

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Ravel: L'Heure Espagnole/Don Quichotte A Dulcinee-Jordan
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