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Bizet: Carmen by André Cluytens

André Cluytens

Opera - Released August 25, 2022 | Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording

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Bizet: Carmen & L'arlésienne Suites

Pablo Gonzalez

Classical - Released October 13, 2017 | Naxos

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The two suites adapted from Georges Bizet's opera Carmen and the two derived from his incidental music for Alphonse Daudet's play L'Arlésienne are concert staples, and they owe their enduring popularity to their unforgettable melodies and appealing orchestration. This 2017 Naxos CD presents Bizet's own L'Arlésienne Suite No. 1, which he assembled after the play failed, and it became one of his earliest successes; the remaining suites were arranged by Bizet's friend Ernest Guiraud, who composed the recitatives for Carmen and was instrumental in promoting Bizet's music after his death in 1875. Pablo González leads the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra in these engaging performances, and the liveliness of the playing and the vividness of the recorded sound make the CD a delight to hear. Sample track eight to hear the infectious Habanera, one of the most famous tunes from Carmen, and try track 20 for the Farandole, perhaps the best-known excerpt from L'Arlésienne.© TiVo
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Bizet: Carmen, WD 31

Adriana Maliponte

Classical - Released April 1, 1973 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Bizet: Carmen Suites Nos. 1 & 2 - Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 & 2

Leonard Bernstein

Classical - Released December 22, 2017 | Sony Classical

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Carmen - L'Arlésienne

Marc Minkowski

Classical - Released March 17, 2008 | naïve classique

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Bizet: Carmen Suites 1 & 2; L'Arlésienne Suites 1 & 2

Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal

Classical - Released January 1, 1988 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Bizet: Carmen, WD 31

Herbert von Karajan

Classical - Released January 1, 1964 | Sony Classical

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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Suite & Bizet/Shchedrin: Carmen Suite

Rachmaninoff International Orchestra

Classical - Released March 15, 2024 | EuroArts Music International

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Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 1 & Symphony No. 1 - Gounod: Petite Symphonie

François Leleux

Classical - Released March 13, 2020 | Linn Records

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Weill, Brecht & Hauptmann: L'opéra de quat'sous

Le Balcon

Classical - Released September 22, 2023 | Alpha Classics

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L'opéra de quat'sous ("The Four Penny Opera") is nothing more or less than Die Dreigroschenoper ("The Threepenny Opera") of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. The Threepenny Opera was a hit from the beginning and was almost immediately translated into French, among other languages (even Hungarian), after its 1928 premiere, but here, it is sung in a new translation by Alexandre Pateau. To these imperfectly francophone ears, the translation seems fluent and sharp. The original opera, of course, was based on an English original and featured some adapted French poetry, so a translation into French is less of an experiment than one might think. This was a live recording from the summer of 2023, and although the production featured English and German supertitles, there are no translations in the booklet here. In other ways, too, the production might have fared better live than it does on a recording. The singers are mostly untrained stage actors who ham up the characters in a way that probably worked in person but doesn't come across in audio. (The exceptions here are Claïna Clavaron, who turns in an arresting Mack the Knife at the beginning, Véronique Vella's Celia Peachum, and Marie Oppert as Polly Peachum.) The most important thing to note for listeners who think they are getting simply a French Dreigroschenoper is that the music and text are reinterpreted and reworked. There are some cuts, some added material, spoken descriptions, and, from director Thomas Ostermeier and conductor Maxime Pascal, a percussion-heavy setting that emphasizes every bit of popular-music influence in the score. None of this is necessarily untrue to the spirit of the work, but listeners should sample well and see whether their minds fill in the various blanks here. Alpha's live recording is clear and not marred by stage and production noises.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Bizet: L'arlésienne, Op. 23, WD 28

Orfeon Donostiarra

Classical - Released February 9, 2024 | SOMM Recordings

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Camille Saint-Saëns: La princesse jaune

Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse

Classical - Released August 27, 2021 | Bru Zane

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That globetrotting composer Camille Saint-Saëns wrote La Princesse jaune in 1872, exemplifying the current craze for all things Japanese. Kornélis, played by the tenor Mathias Vidal, dreams only of the Land of the Rising Sun. Under the influence of a hallucinogenic potion, he becomes infatuated with Ming, a fantasy princess. His cousin Léna – the soprano Judith van Wanroij – despairs of this passion and does not dare to confess her own feelings to Kornélis, who eventually comes to his senses. The running time of this opera enables us to offer a coupling in the shape of a previously unrecorded version of Saint-Saëns’s six Mélodies persanes, thus extending the guiding thread of a yearning for exotic horizons in another direction. Leo Hussain conducts the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse in both works. © Bru Zane
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Trumpet Spectacular

Doc Severinsen

Classical - Released March 1, 1990 | Telarc

Though listed as an Erich Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops album, the focal point of attention is jazzman Doc Severinsen trying his hand at some classical repertoire. Severinsen's virtuosity and musicality frequently were overlooked when he was still riding high as leader of the Tonight Show Orchestra, so this was a potent reminder of his versatility. Here Severinsen proves to be a disciplined classical player, able to scale even such technical minefields as "The Flight of the Bumble Bee" (if just barely!) with assurance, and he keeps his showmanlike instincts under wraps most of the time. But there are passages in pieces like "Napoli," the lengthy "Carmen Fantasy," and, perhaps inappropriately, J.S. Bach's "Chaconne" where he cuts just a bit loose and listeners sense the flamboyant Severinsen of TV fame. As is often the case when a trumpeter meets the symphony, all but two of the works heard here are arrangements or transcriptions of pieces for other instruments -- including well-known operatic excerpts by Rossini, Bizet, and Puccini. One of the two trumpet/orchestra pieces, Jeremiah Clarke's famous "The Prince of Denmark March" (or "Trumpet Voluntary"), is heard in a big orchestra/organ arrangement, leaving Leroy Anderson's lovable, durable "A Trumpeter's Lullaby" as the only completely original work for trumpet and orchestra on the disc. Kunzel himself contributes the functionary charts to Rossini's "Largo Al Factotum" and "La Danza," Schumann's "Traumerei," and Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring." The music here might be difficult for the trumpeter, but not for the "pops" audience, who should easily lap up the pretty tunes and occasional bravura.© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
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Bizet: Carmen Suites and L' Arlésienne Suites

Georges Bizet

Classical - Released October 28, 2013 | Past Classics

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Bizet: L'Arlésienne Suites Nos.1 & 2 / Carmen Suite No.1

London Symphony Orchestra

Classical - Released January 1, 1988 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Shortly before Deutsche Grammophon issued this 2007 coupling of Claudio Abbado and the London Symphony Orchestra's 1977 recording of both L'Arlésienne Suites together with their 1980 recording of the Carmen Suite, it issued a coupling of Abbado's 1977 L'Arlésienne Suites but with Jean Martinon and the Orchestre National de l'ORTF recording Bizet's Jeux d'enfants and Symphony in C major instead. Proving that context is everything, this disc admirably succeeds where the previous disc fails. On this disc, Abbado and the LSO sound light, witty, warm, colorful, and deep beneath the skin of the music, making the L'Arlésienne Suites ring all the changes from its swaggering March to its sultry Minuet and from its ardent Pastorale to its tragic Farandole, and the Carmen Suite sing, stamp, soar, and sizzle like Dorothy Dandridge in a flowing red skirt. Here, DG's late stereo sound is crisp, clean, deep, and vibrant. Here, in short, is a soupçon of Bizet for all ages, sexes, and tastes that only the hardest of critical hearts could not embrace with open arms.© TiVo
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Saint-Saëns : Symphonie No. 3 - Œuvres de Chabrier, Bizet & Lalo (Diapason n°586)

Orchestre Symphonique de Détroit

Symphonic Music - Released October 25, 2009 | Les Indispensables de Diapason

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Bizet: Suites from L'Arlésienne & Carmen

Herbert von Karajan

Classical - Released April 12, 2019 | Warner Classics