Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24 / La mort de Cleopatre
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24 / La mort de Cleopatre
Janet Baker, Nicolai Gedda, Gabriel Bacquier / Chœurs de 'Opera de Paris, Orchestre de Paris & LSO / Georges Pretre & Alexander Gibson
[ EMI Gemini / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 1 May 2007
"Prêtre's "Damnation de Faust"...does have some of the finest singers of the day. Nicolai Gedda and Gabriel Bacquier both turn in excellent professional performances. Dame Janet Baker was evidently determined to stretch herself no matter what the others did. I was prepared to find her too "regal", even matronly, for Marguerite, but I needn't have worried. Having recently made the transition from contralto to mezzo-soprano she was now displaying her upper register in all its early refulgence."
(MusicWeb July 2007)
Tracks:
La Damnation de Faust
(Janet Baker, Nicolai Gedda, Gabriel Bacquier, Opera Paris, Gorges Petre)
La Mort de Cleopatre
(Janet Baker, London Symphony orchestra. Andre Previn)
