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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: Alan Howe on Tuesday 27 February 2024, 21:22

Title: Saint-Saëns: Déjanire
Post by: Alan Howe on Tuesday 27 February 2024, 21:22
...forthcoming from Bru Zane:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9607252--saint-saens-dejanire
Title: Re: Saint-Saëns: Déjanire
Post by: Christopher on Wednesday 28 February 2024, 14:49
Hurray!
Title: Re: Saint-Saëns: Déjanire
Post by: Alan Howe on Saturday 13 April 2024, 19:13
I'm listening to CD1 as I type and I confess I'm vaguely disappointed. I had been expecting something along the lines of Samson et Dalila - but no, this is spare, almost severe; quite unlike anything else I've heard by the composer. Of course, this is late Saint-Saëns, having been composed in 1909-10 when he was in his mid-seventies. I suppose it'd be like expecting Verdi's Falstaff to be like Aida.

It's decently sung here - not spectacularly, but more than well enough, given that we just don't have many great voices in the romantic repertoire these days.

Déjanire will probably never catch on, but it may fascinate...

4,000 copies have been produced. Mine is no. 3597 (whatever that means).