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Bizet: Carmen - Norman, Freni, Shicoff, Estes [Ozawa] [3 CD]

Posted By: aibdescalzo
Bizet: Carmen - Norman, Freni, Shicoff, Estes [Ozawa] [3 CD]

Bizet - Carmen [Ozawa]
EAC Rip | Classical (opera) | 3 CD | FLAC + CUE + Logs | Scans 300 dpi | 655 mb | RS + SM | TT 02:39:17
Released: 7 Aug. 1989 | Label: Polygram Records | Recorded: Jul. 1988

Ghylaine Raphanel, Jessye Norman, Pierre Sebastian, Serge Coorsan, Simon Estes, Jean-Philippe Courtis, Neil Shicoff, Jean Rigby, Gerard Garino, Francois LeRoux, Nicolas Rivenq, Mirella Freni
Orchestre National de France, Seiji Ozawa (conductor)

This recording confirms the work as an outright masterpiece. Its strength lies in having a French orchestra and chorus, French singers in subsidiary roles, an edition that employs dialogue and, with one exception, makes a sensible choice from the Oeser revisions, and has Erik Smith as producer. There is no substitute for the sound of French artists singing and speaking their own language, few substitutes for French players tackling their country's music. Their conductor isn't French, but Ozawa, by and large, shows a fine feeling for the niceties of Bizet's scoring and rhythms. Erik Smith, as ever, places the singers in the forefront, avoiding the curse of recessed sound, and yet suggests the ambience of a real occasion.

So the frame is right for Jessye Norman's muchheralded Carmen. How does she fill it? With predictable intelligence, involvement and musicality. To start with, her French is idiomatic. She may be a shade too emphatic in some of the dialogue in an effort to create a 'character', but create one she does—mostly by dint of her singing. The "Habanera" is as smoky and alluring as Leontyne Price's on the Karajan/RCA set, the "Seguidille" suitably seductive. In both she lightens her tone effectively without damaging its quality. The "Chanson bohémiénne" has suitable fire, the duet with Jose a nice mixture of eroticism combined with irony— the repeat of José's phrase early on, one of the Oeser additions first heard on the Solti set, helps her here…

I like the sensual vibrato she brings to "Ah! je t'aime", and in the mortal encounter with José, Norman's Carmen rightly assumes tragic proportions, even if the style is again a shade grand for this piece. All in all it is a convincing well-thoughtthrough portrayal. If Norman isn't a 'natural' for the part as are, in their different ways, Berganza for Abbado (DG), Migenes for Maazel (Erato/RCA) and Troyanos for Solti (Decca), she is in her very different way as interesting as los Angeles (Beecham/EMI) and Callas (Prêtre—also EMI), and quite as individual in utterance as either.

– Gramophone [8/1989]


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Disc 1
1. Prelude
2. Act 1. 'Sur la place, chacun passe'
3. Act 1. 'Regardez donc cette petite'
4. Act 1. 'Avec la garde montante'
5. Act 1. 'Il y a une jolie fille'
6. Act 1. 'Et la garde descendante'
7. Act 1. 'Dites-moi, brigadier'
8. Act 1. 'La cloche a sonné'
9. Act 1. 'Dans l'air, nous suivons des yeux la fumée'
10. Act 1. 'Mais nous ne voyons pas la Carmencita'
11. Act 1. 'Quand je vous aimerai?'
12. Act 1. 'Carmen! sur tes pas nous pressons tous!'
13. Act 1. 'Qu'est-ce que ça veut dire'
14. Act 1. 'Parle-moi de ma mère'
15. Act 1. 'Ma mère, je la vois'
16. Act 1. 'Attends un peu maintenant'
17. Act 1. 'Au secours!'
18. Act 1. 'Voyons, brigadier…'
19. Act 1. 'Avez-vous quelque chose à répondre?'
20. Act 1. 'Où me conduirez-vous?'
21. Act 1. 'Près des remparts de Séville'
22. Act 1. 'Le lieutenant… Prenez garde!'

Disc 2
1. Entr'acte
2. Act 2. 'Les tringles des sistres tintaient'
3. Act 2. 'Vous avez quelque chose à nous dire'
4. Act 2. 'Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre'
5. Act 2. 'Messieurs les officiers, je vous en prie'
6. Act 2. 'Le Dancaïre et la Remendado ont à vous parler'
7. Act 2. 'Nous avons en tête une affaire!'
8. Act 2. 'En voilà assez'
9. Act 2. 'Je vais danser en votre honneur'
10. Act 2. 'Au quartier! pour l'appel!'
11. Act 2. 'La fleur que tu m'avais jetée'
12. Act 2. 'Non, tu ne m'aimes pas!'
13. Act 2. 'Holà! Carmen! Holà!'
14. Act 2. 'Bel officier'

Disc 3
1. Entr'acte
2. Act 3, scene 1. 'Écoute, compagnon, écoute!'
3. Act 3, scene 1. 'Halte! nous allons nous arrêter ici!'
4. Act 3, scene 1. 'Mêlons! Coupons!'
5. Act 3, scene 1. 'Carreau! Pique!… La mort!'
6. Act 3, scene 1. 'Eh! bien?'
7. Act 3, scene 1. 'Quant au douanier, c'est notre affaire!'
8. Act 3, scene 1. 'C'est ici'
9. Act 3, scene 1. 'Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante'
10. Act 3, scene 1. 'Mais… Je ne me trompe pas…'
11. Act 3, scene 1. 'Je suis Escamillo'
12. Act 3, scene 1. 'Holà! holà! José!'
13. Act 3, scene 1. Halte! quelqu'un est là
13. Entr'acte
14. Act 3, scene 2. 'A dos cuartos!'
15. Act 3, scene 2. 'Qu'avez-vous donc fait de la Carmencita?'
16. Act 3, scene 2. 'Les voici! voici la quadrille!'
17. Act 3, scene 2. 'S tu m'aimes, Carmen'
18. Act 3, scene 2. 'C'est toi! C'est moi!'

Thank you to my dear mother Patricia R. and her outstanding opera collection for making this contribution possible.

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