En Solitaire [Original recording remastered] [Import]

1. Symphoman

2. Mamam Est Folle

3. Basket-Ball

4. Genève

5. Mots Qui Viennent Tout Bas

6. Miroirs Dans la Boue

7. Endroit Pour Vivre

8. Fier et Fou de Vous

9. Nicolas

10. Ho! J'Cours Tout Seul

11. Chanson Lente

12. Chanson Qui Te Ressemblerait

13. Filles de l'Aurore

14. Petit Comme un Caillou

15. Homme Heureux

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
L'original Series. Reissue of the Famous Album. Digitally Remastered. Digipack.

Tracks:

Un Bel Di Vedremo
O Mio Babbino Caro
Ebben? Ne Andro Lontana
Ecco: Respiro Appena. Io Son L'Umile Ancella
C'est Des Contrebandiers...Je Dis Que Rien Ne M'Epouvante
Pie Jesu
Et Incarnatus Est
Ave Maria
Sanctus
Panis Angelicus
Ave Maria
Inflammatus Et Accensus
Kaddish 2
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
Deep River
Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jericho
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Tracks:

Dans Un Bois Solitaire
Die Forelle
Gretchen Am Spinnrade
An Sylvia
Standchen
Lachen Und Weinen
Heidenroslein
Standchen
Wiegenlied
Morgen
Zueignung
Jeg Elsker Dig
Gruss
Apres Un Reve
Clair De Lune
I. C'est L'Extase Langoureuse
II. Il Pleure Dans Mon Coeur
L'Invitation Au Voyage
Les Filles De Cadix
Reverie
Le Rossignol Des Lilas
Si Mis Vers Avaient Des Ailes
Plaisir D'Amour
Vocalise En Forme De Habanera
Aria
Vilja-Lied

Album Description

Details TBA. EMI. 2005.

Average customer rating:

Heart-breakingly beautiful......
Great recording, fantastic performance
THE cd

En Solitaire
William Sheller
Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000084IR
Release Date: 1998-02-04

Tracks:

Symphoman
Maman Est Folle
Basket-Ball
Gen
Les Mots Qui Viennent Tout Bas
Les Miroirs Dans La Boue
Un Endroit Pour Vivre
Fier Et Fou De Vous
Nicolas
Oh! J' Cours Tout Seul
Chanson Lente
Une Chanson Qui Te Ressemblerait
Les Filles De L' Aurore
Petit Comme Un Caillou
Un Homme Heureux

Album Details

L'original Series. Reissue of the Famous Album. Digitally Remastered. Digipack.

Customer Reviews:

Heart-breakingly beautiful.............1999-02-18

Sheller at his best, warm and sad (often), but full of punch. As he puts it himself, "It's really simple, finally: / I'm not going to whine, / but I'll let everyone know I still love you / I love you most." ("J'me generai pas pour dire que j'taime encore") Lost love is his main topic, but he is always so witty, poetic, and original that his songs never feel syrupy and sentimental. A lot of songs also deal with adolescent love and that mysterious, fragile transition between childhood and adult age. His touch always remains wonderfully delicate, whatever topic he chooses, and the music is drop-dead gorgeous. Arguably the best CD of the decade.

Great recording, fantastic performance.......1999-02-11

A must have CD by one of the best (it's not too difficult as the competition is weak) French artist. If you like the piano, and if you love stereophile type recordings (i.e. clean, spacious, detailled, warm but not heavy sound) you can't go wrong with this one. Enjoy...

THE cd.......1998-10-01

well, what to say? it's one of the best records i've EVER heard. the french singer and his piano -- and of course his best songs. you like a mixture of "chanson" and classical music? just buy it!!!!!

Albert Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane, Op. 43 (Complete) / Le festin de l'araignée (The Spider's Banquet), Op. 17 (Complete) - Yan Pascal Tortelier / BBC Philharmonic

Average customer rating:

Two Great Ballets

Albert Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane, Op. 43 (Complete) / Le festin de l'araignée (The Spider's Banquet), Op. 17 (Complete) - Yan Pascal Tortelier / BBC Philharmonic
Albert Roussel , Yan Pascal Tortelier , and BBC Philharmonic
Manufacturer: Chandos
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000B04
Release Date: 1996-07-23

Tracks:

Bacchus et Ariane, Op.43: Act 1: Introduction
Bacchus et Ariane, Op.43: Act 1: Youths And Maidens At Play
Bacchus et Ariane, Op.43: Act 1: Labyrinthine Dance
Bacchus et Ariane, Op.43: Act 1: Bacchus Appears Disguised. The Dance Is Interrupted
Bacchus et Ariane, Op.43: Act 1: Bacchus Envelops Araine In His Balck Cloak. Ariadne Faints
Bacchus et Ariane, Op.43: Act 1: Theseus And His Companions Rush At Bacchus. He Reveals Himself To Them And With An Imperious Gesture Shows Them The Way To The Sea
Bacchus et Ariane, Op.43: Act 1: The Clouds Gather In The Sky
Bacchus et Ariane, Op.43: Act 1: The Sun Reappears
Bacchus et Ariane, Op.43: Act 1: Danse de Bacchus
Bacchus et Ariane, Op.43: Act 1: Ariadne, Still Asleep, Dances With Bacchus
Bacchus et Ariane, Op.43: Act 1: Bacchus Lays Ariadne On The Rock
Bacchus et Ariane, Op.43: Act 2: Ariadne Sleeps
Bacchus et Ariane, Op.43: Act 2: Ariadne Awakes. She Looks About Her And Believing She Has Been Abandoned, Tries To Through Herself Into The Waves
Bacchus et Ariane, Op.43: Act 2: She Falls Into The Arms Of Bacchus. They Relive Their Dream Dance, Ariadne Now Awake
Bacchus et Ariane, Op.43: Act 2: Bacchus Dances Alone
Bacchus et Ariane, Op.43: Act 2: The Kiss
Bacchus et Ariane, Op.43: Act 2: The Dionysian Spell
Bacchus et Ariane, Op.43: Act 2: The Worshippers Of Bacchus Process
Bacchus et Ariane, Op.43: Act 2: Danse d'Ariane
Bacchus et Ariane, Op.43: Act 2: Danse d'Ariane et de Bacchus
Bacchus et Ariane, Op.43: Act 2: Bacchanale
Bacchus et Ariane, Op.43: Act 2: The Coronation Of Ariadne
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: Prelude
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: A Garden. The Spider Sits In Her Web. She Surveys Her Surroundings
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: Entrance Of The Ants. They Find A Rose Petal
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: With Great Effort They Lift The Petal And Carry It Away
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: The Spider Daydreams And Watches The Garden
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: The Spider Mends Her Web
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: Entrance Of The Dung-Beetles
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: The Ants Return... A Butterfly Appears
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: Dance Of The Butterfly
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: The Spider Invites The Butterfly To Dance Close To Her Web
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: The Butterfly Is Caught In The Web And Struggles. Death Of The Butterfly
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: The Spider Rejoices. The Spider Frees The Butterfly From Her Web And Takes It To Her Larder
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: The Spider Dances
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: Suddenly Fruits Come Crashing Down
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: Entrance Of The Fruit Worms
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: Warlike Entrance Of The Two Praying Mantises
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: The Ants Circle
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: The Mantises Challenge Each Other To A Duel. The Mantises Fight.
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: The Mantises Become Caught In The Web. The Spider Dances
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: Hatching Of The Mayfly
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: The Dance Of The Mayfly
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: The Mayfly Stops, Exhausted. The Insects Pay Their Respects. He Rejects Their Advances
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: The Ants Leave
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: The Worms Come Out Of The Fruit
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: Dance Of The Mayfly And The Fruit Worms
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: Death Of The Mayfly
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: The Spider Prepares To Begin Her Feast, But One Of The Mantises, Freed From The Web, Slips Behind The Spider And Kills Her
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: Death Throes Of The Spider
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: Funeral Of The Mayfly
Le festin de l'araignee, Op.17: The Funeral Cotege Sets Off And Disappears Into The Distance. Night Falls On The Deserted Garden.

Amazon.com

These two ballet masterpieces belong with the works of Ravel and Stravinsky at the pinnacle of French dance music from the interwar period. They are very different sounding. The Spider's Feast, as befits an "insect" piece, is a delicate impressionist tone poem painted in musical watercolors. Bacchus, by contrast, is a symphonically constructed epic told in pungent melodies and clear-cut, stamping rhythms. The second half of the ballet, also known as Suite No. 2, has long been popular at orchestral concerts, and builds up to a smashing ending. Yan Pascal Tortelier's performances of both works are the best available, both as interpretations and sound. --David Hurwitz

Customer Reviews:

Two Great Ballets.......2002-03-06

Bacchus and Ariane (Ariadne), like his Third Symphony, is a late work. Albert Roussel was at the height of his powers when he wrote this ballet for a lavish production at the Paris Opera. It was a gala affair with sets designed by Giorgio de Chirico and choreography by Sergei Lifar.

The story concerns the adventures of Ariadne on the island of Naxos after she fled Crete with the hero Theseus, having outwitted the Minotaur. The ballet is in two acts and is characterized by spiraling melodies of great beauty and energy. The second act was performed as a concert piece and was very popular.

The other work on this disc, The Spider's Feast, is a ballet from 1913. The scene is set in the corner of a garden and depicts the goings on of the insect life. Roussel loved the natural world and his inspiration shows in this work. The insects are meant to represent human emotions with the spider, with an insatiable appetite, done in by his own excesses. The music is very charming and impressionistic in its writing, sounding as if influenced by Debussy.

Yan Pascal Tortelier and the BBC Philharmonic are superb in these pieces. The disc is a good introduction to Roussel's music and has been a favorite of mine for several years.

Lully - Phaëton / Crook, Smith, Yakar, Gens, Théruel, Fouchécourt, Naouri, Huttenlocher, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Minkowski
Average customer rating:

Phaeton is Great!

Sonorous tranport to the Versailles of Louis XIV

Lully - Phaëton / Crook, Smith, Yakar, Gens, Théruel, Fouchécourt, Naouri, Huttenlocher, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Minkowski
Jean-Baptiste Lully , Marc Minkowski , Howard Crook , Rachel Yakar , Jennifer Smith , Les Musiciens du Louvre , Véronique Gens , Gérard Theruel , Jean-Paul Fouchécourt , Philippe Huttenlocher , Laurent Naouri , Jérôme Varnier , Florence Couderc , Michel Laplénie , Eric Bellocq , Virginie Pochon , Béatrice Di Carlo , and Ensemble Vocal Sagittarius
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
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ASIN: B000005EAR
Release Date: 1994-06-07

Tracks:

Phaeton: Overture
Phaeton: 'Cherchons al paix dans cet asile' (Troupe d' Astree)
Phaeton: 'Dans cette paisible Retraite' (Ritournelle - Astree)
Phaeton: 'Dans ces lieux, tout rit sans cesse' (Troupe d' Astree)
Phaeton: 'Que les mortels se rejouissent' (Choeur)
Phaeton: 'Un heros qui merite une gloire immortelle'
Phaeton: 'Suivons de Heros, suivez-nous'
Phaeton: Air pour les suivants de Saturne
Phaeton: 'Plaisirs venez sans crainte' (Bourree-Choeur)
Phaeton: 'On a vu ce Heros terrible dans al Guerre'
Phaeton: Reprise de l'overture
Phaeton: Act I, Scene 1: 'Heureuse une ame indifferente'
Phaeton: Act I, Scene 2: 'Je ne vous croyais pas dans ce lieu solitaire'
Phaeton: Act I, Scene 3: 'Vous passiez sans me voir'
Phaeton: Act I, Scene 4: 'Vous paraissez chagrin, mon Fils'
Phaeton: Act I, Scene 5: 'Heurex, qui peut voir du Rivage' (Protee es sa suite)
Phaeton: Act I, Scene 5: 'Prenez soin sur ces bords des troupeaux de Neptune'
Phaeton: Act I, Scene 6: 'Vous avec qui le sang me lie'
Phaeton: Act I, Scene 7: 'Que Protee avec nous partage'
Phaeton: Act I, Scene 7: 'Le Plaisir est necessaire'
Phaeton: Act I, Scene 7: 'Vos jeux ont des appas, je les quitte avec peine'
Phaeton: Act I, Scene 7: 'C'est un secret qu'il faut qu'on vous arrache'
Phaeton: Act I, Scene 8: 'Le sort de Phaeton se decouvre a mes yeux'
Phaeton: Act I, Scene 8: Reprise
Phaeton: Act II, Scene 1: 'Protee en a trop dit, je fremis du danger'
Phaeton: Act II, Scene 2: 'Il me fuit, I'inconstant!'
Phaeton: Act II, Scene 3: 'Que l'incertitude est un rigoreux tournment'
Phaeton: Act II, Scene 4: 'Quel Malheur'
Phaeton: Act II, Scene 4: 'Que mon sort serait doux'

Tracks:

Phaeton: Act II, Scene 5: 'Roys qui pour Souverain devez me reconnaitre'
Phaeton: Act II, Scene 5: 'Que de tous cotes on entende le nom de Phaeton'
Phaeton: Act II, Scene 5: Chaconne
Phaeton: Act II, Scene 5: Petit Air pour les mesmes
Phaeton: Act III, Scene 1: 'Ah Phaeton est-il possible...'
Phaeton: Act III, Scene 1: 'Pour regir l'Univers les Destins m'ont fait naitre'
Phaeton: Act III, Scene 2: 'Suivez-la, ma presence irrite ses douleurs'
Phaeton: Act III, Scene 3: 'Songez-vous qu'Isis est ma Mere?'
Phaeton: Act III, Scene 4: Marche
Phaeton: Act III, Scene 4: Air pour les mesmes
Phaeton: Act III, Scene 4: 'O vous pour qui l'Amour des plus beaux de ser noeuds'
Phaeton: Act III, Scene 4: 'Nous reverons votre puissance'
Phaeton: Act III, Scene 4: 'Vous qui servez Isis'
Phaeton: Act III, Scene 5: Entree des Furies
Phaeton: Act III, Scene 6: 'Le Ciel trouble votre bonheur'
Phaeton: Act III, Scene 6: 'Vous etes son Fils, je le jure'
Phaeton: Act III, Scene 6: 'Ce Dieu semble approuver le serment que je fais'
Phaeton: Act IV, Scene 1: 'Sans le Dieu qui vous eclaire'
Phaeton: Act IV, Scene 1: 'C'est par vous, o Soleil, que le Ciel s'illumine'
Phaeton: Act IV, Scene 1: 'Redoublez la Rejouissance'
Phaeton: Act IV, Scene 1: Air
Phaeton: Act IV, Scene 1: 'Dans ce Palais, bravez I'Envie' (Air, Choeur)
Phaeton: Act IV, Scene 2: 'Dans ce Palais, bravez l'Envie' (Air, Choeur)
Phaeton: Act IV, Scene 2: 'C' est toi que j'en atteste'
Phaeton: Act IV, Scene 2: 'Tous mes Tresors vous sont ouverts'
Phaeton: Act IV, Scene 2: 'Allez repandre la lumiere'n (Choeur)
Phaeton: Act V, Scene 1: 'Assemblez-vous, Habitants de ces lieux'
Phaeton: Act V, Scene 2: 'Dieu qui vous declarez mon Pere'
Phaeton: Act V, Scene 3: 'O rigoureux martyre'
Phaeton: Act V, Scene 3: 'Dieu! Epaphus!'
Phaeton: Act V, Scene 3: 'Helas, une chaine si belle'
Phaeton: Act V, Scene 4: 'Que l'on chante, que tout reponde'
Phaeton: Act V, Scene 4: Bourre - Premier Air
Phaeton: Act V, Scene 4: 'Ce beau jour ne permet qu'a l'Aurore'
Phaeton: Act V, Scene 5: 'Changer ces doux concerts en des plaintes funebres '
Phaeton: Act V, Scene 5: 'C' est votre secours que j'implore'
Phaeton: Act V, Scene 5: 'Dieu qui lancez le tomerre'

Customer Reviews:

Phaeton is Great!.......1999-12-11

This is a great opera. I think Phaeton is Lully's best opera. This one is exciting and fresh. The music and singing are very good. There are many memorable moments in Phaeton. Track 23 of disc 1 and track 24 of disc 2 prove that Lully is the baroque master. Baroque doesn't get any more powerful than those tracks! The opera's last track will have you remember the name Lully. The music is quite fitting for the time of King Louis XIV.

Sonorous tranport to the Versailles of Louis XIV.......1999-09-15

A musically balanced realisation of a classic Baroque opera on modern instruments. Lack of a visual focus always makes some of the interlude music seem superfluous. Notes in English and German expain the background to the work and the composer .

Tracks:

Les Pecheurs de perles, Acte I: C'est toi!... Au fond du temple saint
Le Roi de Lahore, Acte IV: Aux troupes du Sultan... Promesse de mon avenir
Cleopatre, Acte II: A-t-il dit vrai?... Solitaire sur ma terrasse
Le Roi d'Ys, Acte III: Puisqu' on ne peut flechir... Vainement ma bien-aimee
Manon, Acte II: En fermant les yeux
Sapho, Acte I: Ai-je devine?... Puis-je oublier, o ma Glycere
Le Songe d'une nuit d'ete, Acte II: Ou suis-je?
Hamlet, Acte II: O vin, dissipe la tristesse
La Favorite, Acte II: Leonor viens... Leonor, mon amour brave
La Muette di Portici, Acte I: Mais j apercois Pietro... Mieux vant mourir
Le Maitre de chapelle, Acte I: Ah! quel bonheur de pressentir... Pour imiter son seducteur
Le Legende de Joseph en Egypte, Acte I: Vainement Pharaon... Champs paternels
Moise et Pharaon, Acte II: Moment fatal

Customer Reviews:

Outstanding!.......2007-01-23

In an era when broadcast recitals are an increading rarity, listening to an album like this is a very special treat. Listening to Schade and Braun provides an exquisite evening's entertainment, what genuinely used to be called a "soiree" in the good old days. I can't say enough for this album; both their phrasing and their enthusiasm are infectious and highly enjoyable. A real treat!!

What sweet music!.......2000-08-28

This compilation of french classics is artistically priceless. Michael Schade and Russell Braun deliver charm and beauty mixed with subtle sadness on certain pieces, that only true musical genius can convey effectively. Michael Schade's crystal clear voice is pure, sweet and high, a gift that few possess and even fewer utilize. I would listen to Michael Schade over Pavarotti any day of the week! Russell Braun delivers an equally endearing baritone voice that conveys dramatic phrases as well as more expressive passages.

It is this type of quality music that makes me fiercely proud to be Canadian. I only wish that more Canadians would see the value of this art and push their elected representatives to keep it alive and make it thrive. To read more on this topic, read the article Richard Bradshaw has written on the Canadian Opera Company Web Page.