Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Céphale et Procris
Reinoud Van Mechelen
Classical - Released February 9, 2024 | Château de Versailles Spectacles
Psyché
Christophe Rousset
Classical - Released January 13, 2023 | Château de Versailles Spectacles
Gloire Immortelle !
Hervé Niquet
Classical - Released November 17, 2023 | Château de Versailles Spectacles
Æther
Sarah Aristidou
Classical - Released November 5, 2021 | Alpha Classics
Sibelius : Pelleas and Melisande Suite...
Turun Filharmoninen Orkesteri
Classical - Released July 31, 2015 | Naxos
The Naxos label has embarked on a series covering lesser-known works of Sibelius, performed by the little-known (outside Finland) but venerable Turku Philharmonic Orchestra under Sibelius veteran Leif Segerstam. They're well worth the time of Sibelius lovers, with clean, idiomatic performances that cover a side of the composer substantially lighter than that shown by his weighty symphonies. Many are associated with the theater, falling into genres like incidental music that really ought not to be forgotten inasmuch as they were the direct ancestors of today's soundtrack music. The music here is known to at least some listeners: Sibelius' incidental music for Maeterlinck's play Pelléas et Mélisande is performed often in a suite made by the composer, but recordings of the whole set of pieces are rare. The work makes an interesting counterpoint to Debussy's and Schoenberg's better-known sets of pieces, and if the listener can shake free of a linear view of music history, it stands up well to those. Sample the very sparse and powerful Mélisande's song (track 6), given a rich performance by soprano Pia Pajala; it's enough to make one wish Sibelius had been induced to apply his structural thinking to opera. The deep and unified final Andante from Act V could and should be performed more often as an independent work. After the Pélleas music is another piece of incidental music for an abortive project, a trio of waltzes (one vocal), and a little work from the end of Sibelius' career. There might be slightly cleaner versions of the Pélleas et Mélisande music out there, but probably not in a recording that gives the entire work. © TiVo
Cadmus & Hermione
Vincent Dumestre
Classical - Released May 1, 2021 | Château de Versailles Spectacles
Fauré le dramaturge
Takénori Némoto
Classical - Released May 27, 2022 | Klarthe Records
Debussy: Complete Orchestral Work
Jun Märkl
Classical - Released January 30, 2012 | Naxos
Atys
Christophe Rousset
Opera - Released January 5, 2024 | Château de Versailles Spectacles
Écho & Narcisse
Hervé Niquet
Classical - Released August 25, 2023 | Château de Versailles Spectacles
Debussy: La Damoiselle élue, Le martyre de Saint Sébastien & Nocturnes
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Classical - Released April 1, 2022 | Alpha Classics
Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine
Classical - Released September 23, 2022 | Bru Zane
Sibelius: Luonnotar, Tapiola, Spring Song, Rakastava & Suite from Pelléas och Mélisande
Edward Gardner
Symphonies - Released July 1, 2021 | Chandos
Lully: Armide
Les Talens Lyriques
Classical - Released March 24, 2017 | Aparté
Le lac des cygnes
Natalie Dessay
Stories and Nursery Rhymes - Released October 18, 2017 | Didier Jeunesse
Jean-Baptiste Lully : Amadis (Édition 5.1)
Christophe Rousset
Opera - Released September 22, 2014 | Aparté
Brunch Classical Music
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Classical Music: 50 of the Best, Claude Debussy, Edvard Grieg, Johannes Brahms, Johann Sebastian Bach,
Classical - Released March 10, 2020 | Armasi
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Désiré Emile Inghelbrecht
Opera - Released January 1, 1999 | naïve classique
Debussy: Études & Pour le piano
Steven Osborne
Solo Piano - Released November 3, 2023 | Hyperion
Pancrace Royer: Surprising Royer, Orchestral Suites
Les Talens Lyriques
Symphonic Music - Released May 5, 2023 | Aparté