Godard, B: Dante

There is much that is strong and much that is beautiful…Edgaras Montvidas and Véronique Gens make a fine pair of lovers, their ardent duet in Act 2 being one of the high spots…There’s excellent... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2018 More…

Release Date: 20th Oct 2017
Catalogue No: ES10298RSK
Label: Bru Zane
Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

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Godard, B: Le Dante, Op. 111

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Andrew Lepri Meyer (tenor), Diana Axentii (soprano), Edgaras Montvidas (tenor), Jean-François Lapointe (baritone), Véronique Gens (soprano), Rachel Frenkel (mezzo-soprano)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ulf Schirmer
Recorded: 29-31 January 2016
Recording Venue: Prinzregententheater, Munich, Germany

Act I: Malheur à vous

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Act I: Guelfes ou Gibelins, qu'importe (Dante, Chorus)

3:29

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Act I: Il a raison (Chorus)

2:42

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Act I: Ah! puisse la voix populaire (Dante, Bardi)

6:27

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Act I: Ah! de tous mes espoirs (Dante)

4:06

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Act I: Courage, Béatrice (Béatrice, Gemma)

6:01

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Act I: Le peuple a rendu sa sentence (Béatrice, Gemma, Dante, Bardi, Chorus)

3:26

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Act I: Quand ils vont aux dangers (Béatrice, Gemma, Dante, Bardi, Chorus)

1:52

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Act I: Voici notre drapeau (Béatrice, Gemma, Dante, Bardi, Chorus)

2:20

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Act II: Nos généreux espoirs (Bardi)

5:08

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Act II: Gemma! (Gemma, Bardi)

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Act II: À lui, dès son enfance (Gemma, Bardi)

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Act II: Paroles de haine (Béatrice)

4:02

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Act II: C'est lui! (Béatrice, Dante)

4:52

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Act II: Cher Gonfalonier de justice (Béatrice, Dante, Bardi, Chorus)

3:39

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Act II: C'en est fait! (Béatrice, Dante, Bardi, Chorus)

1:57

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Act II: Maintenant, vous pouvez remettre (Béatrice, Dante, Bardi, Hérault, Chorus)

3:56

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Act III: Tarentelle

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Act III: Allons, amis (Hérault, Chorus)

1:47

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Act III: Ô maître (School Boy, Chorus)

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Act III: Encore un jour qui tombe (Dante)

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Act III: C'est chose bien fragile (Dante, Hérault)

3:03

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Act III: La nuit! (Dante)

2:12

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Act III: Toujours! (Dante, Hérault, Chorus)

2:58

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Act III: Ah! (Dante, Hérault, Chorus)

3:25

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Act III: Deux êtres vont là-bas (Dante, Chorus)

3:18

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Act III: Gloire à celui qui rayonne (Béatrice, Dante, Chorus)

2:27

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Act III: Je vais dans l'azur sans voiles (Béatrice, Dante, Chorus)

3:31

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Act III: Entr'acte

1:55

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Act IV: Ah! (Dante, Bardi, Chorus)

3:30

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Act IV: Pardonnez-moi! (Dante, Bardi)

4:12

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Act IV: Prélude

3:30

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Act IV: Elle se rend à la chapelle (Gemma)

1:48

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Act IV: Au milieu de vous (Gemma)

3:12

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Act IV: Je viens te retrouver (Béatrice, Gemma)

1:33

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Act IV: Ah! que tu me fais mal (Béatrice, Gemma)

2:10

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Act IV: C'est moi que l'on appelle (Béatrice, Gemma)

0:56

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Act IV: De l'éternel sommeil (Béatrice)

4:19

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Act IV: Je n'ose lui parler (Béatrice, Gemma, Dante)

2:00

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Act IV: Ô l'ineffable et pure ivresse (Béatrice, Gemma, Dante)

1:33

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Act IV: Nous allons partir tous deux (Béatrice, Dante)

2:14

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Act IV: Partons (Béatrice, Gemma, Dante, Bardi)

4:43

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Dante Alighieri, born in Florence in 1265, was at once a poet and an important political figure of his time. His celebrated Divine Comedy relates his supposed descent to Hell and slow ascent to Paradise. Godard’s operatic treatment of his life (1890) skilfully juxtaposes the political milieu – crowd scenes in Florence and the quarrel between Guelfs and Ghibellines – with the expression of the courtly love he feels for Beatrice, betrothed to his friend Bardi.

The most remarkable element of the opera is the integration of a ‘Vision’ that is nothing less than a synthesis of the Divine Comedy set to music. Its third act is built around a fantasy ‘Hell’ and ‘Paradise’, featuring an Apparition of Virgil, Chorus of the Damned, Infernal Whirlwind, Divine Radiance and Apotheosis of Beatrice. Godard is here at the peak of his melodic inspiration and compositional mastery, in a style that brings Gounod up to date and need not fear comparison with Massenet.

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January 2018

There is much that is strong and much that is beautiful…Edgaras Montvidas and Véronique Gens make a fine pair of lovers, their ardent duet in Act 2 being one of the high spots…There’s excellent support from Rachel Frenkel and Andrew Foster-Williams, and Ulf Schirmer directs his Bavarian forces with the zeal of a missionary.

March 2018

Godard's score is certainly grand and expansive, with long melodic structures and some rousing climaxes, particularly at the end of the opera's four acts. [Véronique Gens] she seems effortlessly to breathe her role rather than sing it, the words emerging with firmness and clarity while embedded evenly in her limpid tone. Hers is a performance of astonishing beauty.

Godard, B: Dante

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