Franz Ignaz Beck: L’Isle deserte: Opéra comique in one acte

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[Beck] He knows how to use his orchestra to its best and most colorful advantage, perhaps a legacy of both his Italian and Mannheim training. He is also careful in his vocal characterizations,... — Fanfare, July/August 2022 More…

Release Date: 1st Oct 2021
Catalogue No: 555336-2
Label: CPO
Length: 55 minutes

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Beck, F I: L'isle déserte

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Samantha Gaul, Theodore Browne, Fabian Kelly, Ana Maria Labin
La Stagione Frankfurt
Michael Schneider

Overture. Allegro con brio

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Une épouse infortunée

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Mon toutou, mon bijou

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Ah cesse de t'affliger

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L'amour éprouve mon âme

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Tout de la reconnaissance nous presente le miroir

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Épargne á ma misère les pleurs de l'amitiè

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Pour toi, j'ai l'âme atteinte

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Je ne puis définir ce qui m'agite

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Le temps partvient à tout détruire - Vivre ainsi c'est mourir sans cesse

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Je sens palpiter, tressaillir

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Franz Ignaz Beck is one of the most fascinating composers of the eighteenth century, a musical visionary as well as a 'genuine European' with roots in Mannheim. His opera L’isle déserte, long regarded as lost, has resurfaced in a score manuscript in France and now is celebrating its recording premiere with La Stagione Frankfurt. Magnificent music and a magnificent text! Beck’s L’isle déserte is particularly interesting in the context of music history: first, because it is by a composer who continued to await discovery; second, because a composer active in France availed himself of an Italian libretto – which continued to be an exception before 1780, especially when Metastasio was the librettist. Beck’s L’isle déserte is thus a model example of a material and text-historical adaptation and even more so of a transfer to the music theater. In other words, in Beck’s version of 'The Deserted Island' Italian libretto artistry and French music theater meet, while special appeal is generated by this composer from Germany, an émigré, so to speak, who was not operating with French as his genuinely native language.

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July/August 2022

[Beck] He knows how to use his orchestra to its best and most colorful advantage, perhaps a legacy of both his Italian and Mannheim training. He is also careful in his vocal characterizations, imbuing them with considerable emotion. Beck is a fine composer writing very interesting and, for the time, modern music, which is performed here excellently. Well worth obtaining.

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