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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: Alan Howe on Saturday 15 January 2022, 11:28

Title: Saint-Saëns Phryné
Post by: Alan Howe on Saturday 15 January 2022, 11:28
...forthcoming from Bru Zane:
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/phrygne/hnum/10831753
Title: Re: Saint-Saëns Phryné
Post by: Mark Thomas on Saturday 15 January 2022, 11:39
Just the job! Bru Zane's exploration of Saint-Saëns' operas has been a great revelation and especially appropriate now, 100 years on from his death.
Title: Re: Saint-Saëns Phryné
Post by: TerraEpon on Saturday 15 January 2022, 13:22
Another one? That's like, number four in five years...

Title: Re: Saint-Saëns Phryné
Post by: Mark Thomas on Saturday 15 January 2022, 13:30
Surely you're not complaining??
Title: Re: Saint-Saëns Phryné
Post by: Alan Howe on Saturday 15 January 2022, 16:59
QuoteAnother one? That's like, number four in five years...

We should be grateful, though, shouldn't we?
Title: Re: Saint-Saëns Phryné
Post by: TerraEpon on Sunday 16 January 2022, 01:22
No, it was more of an awed statement.
Title: Re: Saint-Saëns Phryné
Post by: Mark Thomas on Sunday 16 January 2022, 09:45
:)
Title: Re: Saint-Saëns Phryné
Post by: Alan Howe on Sunday 16 January 2022, 13:47
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Title: Re: Saint-Saëns Phryné
Post by: Alan Howe on Wednesday 19 January 2022, 11:22
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Title: Re: Saint-Saëns Phryné
Post by: Revilod on Wednesday 02 March 2022, 11:59
One of my particular interests is French opera. Has anyone heard this recording?  Is it worth £28 or so for a one act work on a single disc?
Title: Re: Saint-Saëns Phryné
Post by: eschiss1 on Thursday 03 March 2022, 18:23
In any event I'm glad to see there are multiple versions on YouTube to compare it with, one way or the other; not as unknown an opera as I'd thought...
Title: Re: Saint-Saëns Phryné
Post by: Revilod on Thursday 03 March 2022, 18:58
There are several uploads of "Phryné" on Youtube but I think they are all of the same performance....one dating from 1960 conducted by Jules Gressier. A good cast ( including Denise Duval, no less) should help to guarantee an authentic feel.
Title: Re: Saint-Saëns Phryné
Post by: Ebubu on Thursday 03 March 2022, 20:17
"There are several uploads of "Phryné" on Youtube but I think they are all of the same performance....one dating from 1960 conducted by Jules Gressier."

Indeed.  But I will upload soon an excellent version by Andrée ESPOSITO (Phryné), Nadine SAUTEREAU (Lampito), Louis MUSY (Dicéphile), Rémi CORAZZA (Nicias), Jacques MARS (Arogagine), Gérard FRIEDMANN (Cynalopex)
Ch.Orch.Radio-Lyr.RTF: Eugène BIGOT, which in my (humble) opinion, is better even than the Gressier (at least vocally !).
And Corazza is far better than the pale Cyrille Dubois in the recent PBZ recording.
Stay tuned....
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