MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Denyce Graves - French Opera Arias
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SAINT-SAENS / GOUNOD / BERLIOZ / MASSENET / THOMAS / LALO / BIZET / DONIZETTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Denyce Graves - French Opera Arias
Denyce Graves (mezzo-soprano) / Orchestre Philhamonique de Monte Carlo, Marc Soustrot
[ Virgin Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 28 February 2004
""Connais-tu le pays" from Mignon, taken very slowly, is sung with a ravishing legato and beautifully shaded tone. Dalila is one of Graves' signature roles and she delivers both arias impressively...Sound is excellent" ClassicsToday
"Denyce Graves has made the role of Dalila very much her own in recent years and the two arias from Saint-Saëns's opera are among the best things on her showcase recital, recorded in 1993. Two less familiar items are both winners. The ravishing aria from Bizet's Djamileh seems to suit Graves's voice and style exactly. In more dramatic mood, the extract from Lalo's seldom-heard Le roi d'Ys makes one curious to hear the rest." Gramophone
Note: Cover slick has a very slight crease
Tracks:
Saint-Saëns: Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix (from Samson et Dalila)
Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila: Printemps qui commence
Gounod: Sapho, Opera in 3 Acts: O ma lyre immortelle
Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust Op. 24, PART 1: D'amour l'ardente flamme
Massenet: Werther:
Werther, Werther, qui m'aurait dit ... Ces lettres! Ces lettres! [Air des lettres]
Va laisse couleur mes larmes [Air des larmes]
Thomas, Ambroise: Mignon: Connais-tu le pays?
Lalo: Le Roi d'Ys: De tous côtes j'aperçois
Bizet: Djamileh, Opera in 1 act: Nour Eddim roi de Lahore (Djamileh)
Donizetti: O mio Fernando (from La Favorita)
