Herold: Le pre aux clercs Orquestra Gulbenkian

• Louis-Ferdinand Herold (1791 - 1833): Le pre aux clercs:
• 1Ouverture05:44
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte I Scene 1:
• 2No. 1, Introduction Ah ! Quel beau jour de fete02:53
• Dialogue:
• 3Ah ! Reposons-nous01:58
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte I Scene 2:
• 4No. 2, Duo Les rendez-vous de noble compagnie06:29
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte I Scene 3:
• 5Dialogue Hola ! ho !01:16
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte I Scene 4:
• 6No. 3, Air Ce soir jarrive donc04:21
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte I Scene 5:
• 7Dialogue Ah les chiens !00:13
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte I Scenes 6, 7 & 8:
• 8No. 4, Morceau densemble Allons ! Dressons la table !05:15
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte I Scenes 9, 10 & 11:
• 9Dialogue Quelle rencontre inattendue !08:15
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte I Scene 12:
• 10No. 5, Final A la Navarre10:30
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte II Scene 1:
• 11No. 6, Entracte et air Jours de mon enfance10:27
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte II Scene 2
• 12Dialogue Mauvaises nouvelles03:20
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte II Scene 3:
• 13No. 7, Trio Vous me disiez sans cesse08:10
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte II Scenes 4 & 5:
• 14Dialogue Je sens les gouttes deau03:05
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte II Scenes 6 & 7:
• 15No. 8, Mascarade Ah ! Quel plaisir !05:44
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte II Scenes 9, 10, 11 & 12:
• 16No. 8, Mascarade (Suite) Lambassadeur de Navarre !04:56
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte II Scenes 13 & 14:
• 17Dialogue Le Roi les mander ensemble05:10
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte II Scenes 13 & 14:
• 18No. 9, Final Tout est dit03:32
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte II Scene 15:
• 19No. 9, Final (Suite) Je suis prisonniere04:00
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte III Scene 1:
• 20No. 10, Chur, morceau densemble Que jaime ces ombrages02:35
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte III Scene 1:
• 21No. 10 (Suite), Ronde A la fleur du bel age04:51
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte III Scene 2
• 22Dialogue Eh bien !01:55
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte III Scene 3:
• 23No. 11, Trio Cen est fait !02:08
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte III Scenes 4 & 5:
• 24Dialogue Ah ! les voila04:46
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte III Scenes 6, 7 & 8:
• 25No. 12, Final Je fremis !03:40
• Le pre aux clercs, Acte III Scene 9:
• 26No. 12 Final (Suite), Nargue de la folie06:41
• Total Runtime02:01:54

Info for Herold: Le pre aux clercs

With Le Pré aux clercs, premiered at the OpéraComique in 1832, Louis-Ferdinand Hérold wrote at once his biggest success and his last opera (he died three weeks after the first performance). From the Overture to the Act III finale, the simplicity of the vocal lines, the impact of the dramatic effects and the effectiveness of the choral writing testify to the flowering of Romanticism and the composer’s assimilation of Rossini, then the paragon of modernity. Following the July Revolution of 1830, it was time to exorcise unfortunate memories: as was its habit, the Paris operatic world did not treat the topic of politics directly but through the fratricidal conflict that began on St Bartholomew’s Day (25 August 1572). The basis for the libretto was a novel by Prosper Mérimée published in 1829, Chronique du règne de Charles IX. The immense success of the opera, virtually contemporary with Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots, shows that it was perfectly in tune with the preoccupations of the time – and with the new ambitions of a supposedly ‘light’ genre...

Marie Lenormand (Marguerite de Valois)
Marie-Eve Munger (Isabelle de Montal)
Jaël Azzaretti (Nicette)
Michael Spyres (Baron de Mergy)
Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (Marquis de Comminge)
Eric Huchet (Cantarelli)
Christian Helmer (Girot)
Coro Gulbenkian
Paul McCreesh, conductor

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