Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ, Op. 25

Yet having already recorded to excellent versions of this intimate, gently luminous masterpiece… what more can Davis add? Not improvement, perhaps, but a different approach. …here his reading... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2007, More…

Release Date: 6th Aug 2007
Catalogue No: LSO0606
Label: LSO Live
Length: 96 minutes

1:36:23

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Yann Beuron (soloist), Peter Rose (soloist), Matthew Rose (soloist), William Dazeley (soloist), Karen Cargill (soloist)
London Symphony Orchestra, Tenebrae Choir
Sir Colin Davis

Part I, Le Songe d'Hérode, Prologue - Dans la Crèche, en Ce Temps

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Part I, Le Songe d'Hérode, Scene 1 - Marche Nocturne

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Part I, Le Songe d'Hérode, Scenes 2 & 3 - Toujours Ce Rêve!

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Part I, Le Songe d'Hérode, Scene 4 - Les Sages de Judée

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Part I, Le Songe d'Hérode, Scene 4 - Les Devins Font Des Évolutions

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Part I, Le Songe d'Hérode, Scene 4 - la Voix Dit Vrai, Seigneur

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Part I, Le Songe d'Hérode, Scene 5 - O Mon Cher Fils

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Part I, Le Songe d'Hérode, Scene 6 - Joseph! Marie!

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Part II, La Fuite en Égypte, Ouverture

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Part II, La Fuite en Égypte, L'adieu Des Bergers a la Sainte Famille (The Shepherds' Farewell)

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Part II, La Fuite en Égypte, Le Repos de la Sainte Famille (The Holy Family At Rest)

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Part III, L'arrivée À Saïs, Depuis Trois Jours

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Part III, L'arrivée À Saïs, Scene 1 - Dans Cette Ville Immense

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Part III, L'arrivée À Saïs, Scene 2 - Entrez, Pauves Hébreux

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Part III, L'arrivée À Saïs, Scene 2 - Trio for Two Flutes and Harp

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Part III, L'arrivée À Saïs, Scene 2 - Vous Pleurez, Jeune Mère

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Part III, L'arrivée À Saïs, Epilogue - Ce Fut Ainsi Que Par un Infidèle

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Part III, L'arrivée À Saïs, Epilogue - O Mon Âme

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September 2007

Yet having already recorded to excellent versions of this intimate, gently luminous masterpiece… what more can Davis add? Not improvement, perhaps, but a different approach. …here his reading seems more measured and translucent, more classical. His soloists are mostly young, clear voices. Matthew Rose's Herod is striking... Karin Cargill... is a wonderfully delicate and simple St Mary alongside Dazeley's restrained Joseph and Peter Rose's benevolently resonant Ishmaelite. Beuron, probably today's finest French lyric tenor, gives the performance an essential idiomatic core in his Narration.

October 2007

Davis phrases Berlioz's lines with all their latent anxiety and sadness, and with that curious sense of regret that David Cairns's essay suggests gives an added sharpness to the telling as the agnostic Berlioz "remembers what is was like to have faith".

[Davis's] revisitation of this truly classic score is utterly and totally compelling.

Davis worked his magic with Berlioz yet again...a fine cast of soloists...and choirs and orchestra sing and play superlatively

under Davis’s loving direction, the spirit is wonderfully right, and all the soloists, the fine Tenebrae Choir and the hypersensitive LSO combine in an interpretation of extraordinary tenderness.

life-enhancing...The Narrator’s strengths leap out immediately...he’s French: an obvious boon in a language where inflection means so much. Here, the chamber choir Tenebrae excel themselves: wonder radiates from every securely focused, cleanly voiced chord.

Classics Today

This set is instantly recommendable for Yann Beuron's Narrator. He is quintessentially French and sings with a directness and innocence that suit the story perfectly...Davis' understanding of Berlioz's layering of sounds remains unsurpassed...The Tenebrae Choir sings brilliantly at all dynamic levels and with absolute clarity.

The Independent on Sunday

If ever a conductor lived the works of a composer, it’s Davis with Berlioz. The London Symphony Orchestra play with delicacy, the Tenebrae Choir are immaculate, and there’s an impeccable set of soloists’.

Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ, Op. 25

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