Boesmans: Au Monde

Boesman's music is quite lush and essentially tonal, although harmonically it suggests a good ear for later 20th-century musical grammar...The two live performances edited down here present a... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2015 More…

Release Date: 7th Apr 2015
Catalogue No: CYP4643
Label: Cypres

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Boesmans: Au Monde

Patricia Petibon (soprano), Charlotte Hellekant (mezzo-soprano), Yann Beuron (tenor), Stèphane Degout (baritone), Werner Van Mechelen (bass-baritone), Frode Olsen (bass)
Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie
Patrick Davin

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The family of an influential yet weakened rich industrialist are awaiting the return of the younger son, Ory, for his father to transfer his empire to him. His arrival leads to the emergence of many tensions and disagreements among the family members – in addition to two sons, there are also three daughters, each with a very different personality, as well as the husband of the eldest daughter and a woman whom he brought into the household. What first seemed to be simple turns out to be a psychological knot of complex human relationships, and the question remains as to whether Ory will accept his responsibilities.

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August 2015

Boesman's music is quite lush and essentially tonal, although harmonically it suggests a good ear for later 20th-century musical grammar...The two live performances edited down here present a well-organised and comfortably recorded reading of the opera by the committed cast.

September 2019

To this disconcerting drama the music gives extraordinary life, making the libretto seem both apt and palpably human. Remarkably for a score so rich, active and present, the music is precise and economical, supporting, carrying, even (one often feels) enabling the singing voices. And its marvellously flighted, frequently exquisite lyrical lines and great diversities of colour, texture and mood unfold at a pace that enables the listener to ‘join’ with and be carried by it.

Boesmans: Au Monde

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