Gounod: La Colombe

One hero of this admirable Opera Rara release is Mark Elder, utterly committed to Gounod's score and coaxing elegant music-making from the Hallé. There's also some properly idiomatic singing,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2016, More…

Release Date: 30th Oct 2015
Catalogue No: ORC53
Label: Opera Rara
Length: 79 minutes

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Gounod: La Colombe

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Erin Morley, Javier Camarena, Michèle Losier, Laurent Naouri
Hallé Orchestra
Mark Elder

Introduction

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Sylvie, Sylvie! Venez-la ma mignonne!

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Voila qui est fait

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Qu'il garde son argent!

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Voyons, seigneur, ecoutez un moment la raison

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Les amoureux

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Allons retrouver madame la comtesse

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Je veux interroger ce jeune homme

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Ah! Les femmes! Les femmes

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Et ton maitre partage

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O vision enchanteresse!

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Bref, cher seigneur, je suis tout a fait ravie

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O douce joie!

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Entr'acte

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Le grand art de cuisine

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Les fournisseurs refusent

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Il faut d'abord dresser la table!

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Me voila retombee dans une etrange reverie!

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Que de reves charmants emportes sans retour!

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Je vous cherche depuis une heure

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Ces attraits que chacun admire

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La deesse aujourd'hui se nomme Amynte

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Mais non, quand nous aurons dine

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Helas, seigneur, pardonnez-moi

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Apaisez, blanche colombe

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Recording of the Week, Mark Elder conducts Gounod's La Colombe

30th October 2015

Katherine listens to Gounod's charming comic opera, with farce and avian nonsense aplenty.

Following his award-winning recording of Donizetti’s Les Martyrs, Sir Mark Elder’s second Opera Rara release of 2015 features an rare recording Gounod’s delightful opera La Colombe ("The Dove”). Sir Mark and the Halle Orchestra are joined by a wonderful cast, led by two of the most acclaimed young singers in the world today.

Since graduating from the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program in 2010, Erin Morley has risen to become one of today’s most most sought after coloratura sopranos. Alongside Erin is Mexican tenor Javier Camerena, one of only three singers in 70-years to sing an encore at the Metropolitan Opera during two consecutive performances of Rossini’s “la Cenerentola” (those two other encore singers were Juan Diego Florez and Luciano Pavarotti).

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February 2016

One hero of this admirable Opera Rara release is Mark Elder, utterly committed to Gounod's score and coaxing elegant music-making from the Hallé. There's also some properly idiomatic singing, as you'd expect from a veteran like Laurent Naouri…best of all is the young Mexican tenor Javier Camarena as Horace.

March 2016

Javier Camarena has made a mark principally in Italian bel canto roles but as Horace deals ably with Gounod’s lyrical demands, although the voice can turn metallic. Erin Morley offers a splendid portrayal of the capricious Sylvie which appealingly balances the countess’s assertive moments, including a brilliant waltz (a genre in which Miolan-Carvalho specialized), with some lovely expressive singing. All unfolds smoothly under Mark Elder’s affectionate leadership.

30th October 2015

Michèle Losier is marvellous in the trouser-role of Mazet, Horace’s misogynistic servant: his/her manic tirade against womanly wiles is a real highlight, but she also has great rapport with Camarena’s high tenor...Laurent Naouri is all haughty Gallic flair as Sylvie’s epicurean majordomo...But the palm goes to the American coloratura soprano Erin Morley, who’s an absolute knock-out as the spoilt girl-about-town Sylvie.

25th November 2015

La Colombe is clearly not a profound work, but it is well filled with the kind of ingratiating tunes that Gounod could turn out so effectively. Elder’s performance has just the right light touch too, always keeping its tongue ever so slightly in its cheek...Modest though it is, a rarity like this couldn’t be served much better by a recording.

Gounod: La Colombe

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Recording of the Week, Mark Elder conducts Gounod's La Colombe