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Italian label IDIS, or "Istituto Discografico Italiano," combines in its Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Médée. Boulanger two sets of pioneering Baroque music recordings by renowned pedagogue Nadia Boulanger, her abridged 1952 recording of Charpentier's opera Médée, and a selection of Monteverdi madrigals recorded in 1937. It is a full-price disc, and apparently there is no attempt to undercut the competition, as this is heralded as the "World Première on CD" (sic) for the sake of Médée. It is, by virtue of IDIS getting this out a little ahead of French EMI's Les Introuvables des Nadia Boulanger. Holding out for the EMI set will win you Boulanger's previously unreleased account of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cantata No. 4, "Christ lag in Todesbanden," and the album of Rameau extracts that she made at about the same time as Médée. The Monteverdi madrigals featured here as filler have already been reissued in several different forms, perhaps in none better than Cascavelle's Hommage á Nadia Boulanger: Enrégistrements 1930-1949, which includes all of her 78 rpm-era recordings.
There are plenty of reasons to want this material apart from the obvious notion that Boulanger is who she is, and that these are some of the oldest recordings of Baroque music that attempt a kind of period performance style. In the latter respect, they are not very successful by current-day standards, as practically all of these pieces are played on modern instruments and are arranged to some degree -- though there is a certain campy charm to hearing Zefiro Torna sung by reedy French baritones and accompanied with a piano. The main benefit of having Boulanger's Médée on disc is that it affords a rare recorded glimpse of soprano Irma Kolassi, Maria Callas' teacher, in the title role, in addition to a splendid outing by bass baritone and Boulanger Ensemble regular Doda Conrad in the role of Créon. But don't waste your money on this IDIS release, which suffers from audio artifacts, cramped sound, and uneven pitching in the Médée; the "Introuvables" is the way to go.
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Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Doda Conrad, baritone - Flore Wend, mezzo-soprano - Nadine Sautereau, soprano - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Paul Derenne, tenor
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Flore Wend, mezzo-soprano - Paul Derenne, tenor - Doda Conrad, baritone - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Nadine Sautereau, soprano
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Paul Derenne, tenor - Nadine Sautereau, soprano - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Flore Wend, mezzo-soprano - Doda Conrad, baritone
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Flore Wend, mezzo-soprano - Nadine Sautereau, soprano - Doda Conrad, baritone - Paul Derenne, tenor
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Paul Derenne, tenor - Nadine Sautereau, soprano - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Flore Wend, mezzo-soprano - Doda Conrad, baritone
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Nadine Sautereau, soprano - Paul Derenne, tenor - Flore Wend, mezzo-soprano - Doda Conrad, baritone
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Nadine Sautereau, soprano - Doda Conrad, baritone - Flore Wend, mezzo-soprano - Paul Derenne, tenor
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Flore Wend, mezzo-soprano - Doda Conrad, baritone - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Paul Derenne, tenor - Nadine Sautereau, soprano
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Flore Wend, mezzo-soprano - Paul Derenne, tenor - Nadine Sautereau, soprano - Doda Conrad, baritone - Studio ensemble, Ensemble
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Nadine Sautereau, soprano - Doda Conrad, baritone - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Paul Derenne, tenor - Flore Wend, mezzo-soprano - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Paul Derenne, tenor - Nadine Sautereau, soprano - Doda Conrad, baritone - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Flore Wend, mezzo-soprano - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Nadine Sautereau, soprano - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Flore Wend, mezzo-soprano - Doda Conrad, baritone - Paul Derenne, tenor
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Flore Wend, mezzo-soprano - Paul Derenne, tenor - Nadine Sautereau, soprano - Doda Conrad, baritone - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Studio ensemble, Ensemble
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Flore Wend, mezzo-soprano - Paul Derenne, tenor - Nadine Sautereau, soprano - Doda Conrad, baritone - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Nadine Sautereau, soprano - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Doda Conrad, baritone - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Flore Wend, mezzo-soprano - Paul Derenne, tenor
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Flore Wend, mezzo-soprano - Paul Derenne, tenor - Doda Conrad, baritone - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Nadine Sautereau, soprano
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Paul Derenne, tenor - Nadine Sautereau, soprano - Flore Wend, mezzo-soprano - Doda Conrad, baritone - Studio ensemble, Ensemble
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Paul Derenne, tenor - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Flore Wend, mezzo-soprano - Doda Conrad, baritone - Nadine Sautereau, soprano
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Flore Wend, mezzo-soprano - Doda Conrad, baritone - Paul Derenne, tenor - Nadine Sautereau, soprano
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Flore Wend, mezzo-soprano - Paul Derenne, tenor - Doda Conrad, baritone - Nadine Sautereau, soprano - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Doda Conrad, baritone - Lucia Rauh, soprano - Hugues Cuenod, tenor - Irene Kedroff, alto - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Paul Derenne, tenor - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Nathalie Kedroff, soprano
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Hugues Cuenod, tenor - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Doda Conrad, baritone - Irene Kedroff, alto - Nathalie Kedroff, soprano - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Paul Derenne, tenor - Lucia Rauh, soprano
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Hugues Cuenod, tenor - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Doda Conrad, baritone - Irene Kedroff, alto - Lucia Rauh, soprano - Nathalie Kedroff, soprano - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Paul Derenne, tenor
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Paul Derenne, tenor - Nathalie Kedroff, soprano - Doda Conrad, baritone - Lucia Rauh, soprano - Irene Kedroff, alto - Hugues Cuenod, tenor - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Paul Derenne, tenor - Nathalie Kedroff, soprano - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Irene Kedroff, alto - Hugues Cuenod, tenor - Lucia Rauh, soprano - Doda Conrad, baritone
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Paul Derenne, tenor - Nathalie Kedroff, soprano - Doda Conrad, baritone - Lucia Rauh, soprano - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Hugues Cuenod, tenor - Irene Kedroff, alto
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Irene Kedroff, alto - Nathalie Kedroff, soprano - Hugues Cuenod, tenor - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Doda Conrad, baritone - Paul Derenne, tenor - Lucia Rauh, soprano
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Doda Conrad, baritone - Lucia Rauh, soprano - Nathalie Kedroff, soprano - Hugues Cuenod, tenor - Paul Derenne, tenor - Irene Kedroff, alto
Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Nadia Boulanger, Conductor - Studio ensemble, Ensemble - Paul Derenne, tenor - Lucia Rauh, soprano - Hugues Cuenod, tenor - Nathalie Kedroff, soprano - Doda Conrad, baritone - Irene Kedroff, alto
Album review
Italian label IDIS, or "Istituto Discografico Italiano," combines in its Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Médée. Boulanger two sets of pioneering Baroque music recordings by renowned pedagogue Nadia Boulanger, her abridged 1952 recording of Charpentier's opera Médée, and a selection of Monteverdi madrigals recorded in 1937. It is a full-price disc, and apparently there is no attempt to undercut the competition, as this is heralded as the "World Première on CD" (sic) for the sake of Médée. It is, by virtue of IDIS getting this out a little ahead of French EMI's Les Introuvables des Nadia Boulanger. Holding out for the EMI set will win you Boulanger's previously unreleased account of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cantata No. 4, "Christ lag in Todesbanden," and the album of Rameau extracts that she made at about the same time as Médée. The Monteverdi madrigals featured here as filler have already been reissued in several different forms, perhaps in none better than Cascavelle's Hommage á Nadia Boulanger: Enrégistrements 1930-1949, which includes all of her 78 rpm-era recordings.
There are plenty of reasons to want this material apart from the obvious notion that Boulanger is who she is, and that these are some of the oldest recordings of Baroque music that attempt a kind of period performance style. In the latter respect, they are not very successful by current-day standards, as practically all of these pieces are played on modern instruments and are arranged to some degree -- though there is a certain campy charm to hearing Zefiro Torna sung by reedy French baritones and accompanied with a piano. The main benefit of having Boulanger's Médée on disc is that it affords a rare recorded glimpse of soprano Irma Kolassi, Maria Callas' teacher, in the title role, in addition to a splendid outing by bass baritone and Boulanger Ensemble regular Doda Conrad in the role of Créon. But don't waste your money on this IDIS release, which suffers from audio artifacts, cramped sound, and uneven pitching in the Médée; the "Introuvables" is the way to go.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 29 track(s)
- Total length: 01:17:46
- Main artist: Nadia Boulanger
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: IDIS
- Genre: Classical
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