Charpentier: Médée [Excerpts] [Import]

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (Composer), Claudio Monteverdi (Composer), Nadia Boulanger (Conductor), Flora Wend (Performer), Nadine Sautereau (Performer), Paul Derenne (Performer), Irma Kolassi (Performer), Doda Conrad (Performer), Hugues Cuénod (Performer), Irene Kedroff (Performer), Nathalie Kedroff (Performer), L. Rauh (Performer), Marie-Blanche Polignac (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Flora Wend, Nadine Sautereau, Paul Derenne, Irma Kolassi, Doda Conrad, et al.
• Conductor: Nadia Boulanger
• Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Claudio Monteverdi
• Audio CD (July 25, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Idi [Ital Disc Inst]
• ASIN: B000GGSM6M
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #615,406 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Médée, opera, H. 491: Prologue

2. Médée, opera, H. 491: Air de la Victoire et Choeur

3. Médée, opera, H. 491: Voir nos moutons

4. Médée, opera, H. 491: Passepied et Double

5. Médée, opera, H. 491: Reprise de l'Air de la Victoire et Choeur

6. Médée, opera, H. 491: Que je serais heureux

7. Médée, opera, H. 491: Disparaissez, inquiètes alarmes

8. Médée, opera, H. 491: Fanfare

9. Médée, opera, H. 491: Noires filles du Styx

10. Médée, opera, H. 491: L'enfer obéit à ta voix

11. Médée, opera, H. 491: Dieu du Cocyte

12. Médée, opera, H. 491: Non, non, les plus heureux amants

13. Médée, opera, H. 491: Prélude

14. Médée, opera, H. 491: Ah, que d'attraits

15. Médée, opera, H. 491: D'un amant qui veut plaire

16. Médée, opera, H. 491: Noires divinités

17. Médée, opera, H. 491: Prélude

18. Médée, opera, H. 491: Ah, funestes revers

19. Médée, opera, H. 491: Mort de Creuse

20. Médée, opera, H. 491: Adieu, Jason

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Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars Fine Charpentier/Overrated Monteverdi, May 3, 2010

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James S. Eisenberg - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Charpentier: Médée [Excerpts] (Audio CD)

The main interest here is a fine half hour suite of vocal and orchestral excerpts from Charpentier's MEDEE. One of the last recordings in beloved theorist, teacher and conductor Nadia Boulanger's very small commercial discography, she gets fine, lively performances from both singers and instrumentalists. (Although there are no real standout vocal performances.) The technicians from the Istituto Discografico Italiano have cleaned up the 1953 sound recording very nicely.
I have never really liked Boulanger's famous 1937 performances of Monteverdi madrigals that are the filler on this disc. Their fame seems to stem from the fact that they were the first extended run at the composer's music on recordings. The performances seem to lack lightness of touch, and simply lack the musical magic of recordings of these same works by the Deller Consort and other groups starting some twenty years later.
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