The long promised commercial recording of Herold's "Le Pré Aux Clercs" is scheduled to be released on October 17, 2016 on the Ediciones Singulares label (ES 1025). It will be their standard 2 CD book format set with a complete French/English libretto and the following cast: Marie-Eve Munger, Marie Lenormand, Jeanne Crousaud, Michael Spyres, Eric Huchet & Christian Helmer, with the Chorus and Gulbenkian Symphony Orchestra of Lisbon, Paul McCreesh conducting. It will be performed in the original French Opéra Comique version with spoken dialogue. More information can be found at the following website:
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/louis-joseph-ferdinand-herold-le-pre-aux-clercs/hnum/4898991
(https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/louis-joseph-ferdinand-herold-le-pre-aux-clercs/hnum/4898991)
Sounds like French Rossini to me. No?
Pretty much, but that's not a bad thing. I do hope that the dialogue is separately tracked.
Sounds like it from the excerpts at jpc.
Indeed. Ediciones Singulares usually get things right.