Bizet - Les Pecheurs de Perles | Pentatone PTC5186685

Bizet - Les Pecheurs de Perles

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Label: Pentatone

Cat No: PTC5186685

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 18th May 2018

Contents

Artists

Julie Fuchs
Cyrille Dubois
Florian Sempey
Luc Bertin-Hugault
Les Cris de Paris
Orchestre National de Lille

Conductor

Alexandre Bloch

Works

Bizet, Georges

Les Pecheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers)

Artists

Julie Fuchs
Cyrille Dubois
Florian Sempey
Luc Bertin-Hugault
Les Cris de Paris
Orchestre National de Lille

Conductor

Alexandre Bloch

About

Les Pêcheurs de Perles is best known for its glorious duet, but Georges Bizet’s opera has much more to offer. This live recording more than ever brings out the brilliance of this oriental story about love, duty and friendship. In the last 150 years, Bizet’s piece has mainly been heard in editions that stray from the composer’s original composition. This album – on the contrary - offers the first recording in history of the 1863 premiere version, reconstructed and published by Bärenreiter in 2015. Les Pêcheurs de perles contains a quintessentially French blend of lyricism, exoticism and drama, and the four soloists (Julie Fuchs as Leïla, Cyrille Dubois as Nadir, Florian Sempey as Zurga and Luc Bertin-Hugault as Nourabad) belong to today’s best performers for this specialist repertoire. Their vocal excellence is matched by the choral contributions of Les Cris de Paris. The rich sound palette of Les Pêcheurs is fully brought to life by the inspired playing of the Orchestre National de Lille under the baton of its new Music Director Alexandre Bloch.

Reviews

Alexandre Bloch conducts the Orchestre National de Lille in a vivid account of the score, with muscular playing driving the faster music (a terrific storm) and the exotic dance numbers, while finding the necessary delicacy for the opera’s heady lyricism. ... it’s the casting of the central trio of characters where this recording triumphs, with no grit in the musical oyster. Pearl Fishers hasn’t fared especially well on disc and there are very few that stand up well to scrutiny. ... it’s as fine a cast as has been assembled for a recording of Les pêcheurs de perles and immediately claims top spot on my shelves.  Mark Pullinger (Recording of the Month)
Gramophone August 2018
Gramophone Editor's Choice

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