Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien
Heidi Grant Murphy (soprano), Dagmar Pecková (mezzo), Nathalie Stutzmann (alto), Dörte Lyssewski (speaker)
Collegium Vocale Gent & SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Sylvain Cambreling
...this is an excellent performance, notable for radiant choral sopranos, sensitive tenors, and an attention to details of colour and line that does credit to all concerned...the impact here...
Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien
Heidi Grant Murphy (soprano), Dagmar Pecková (mezzo), Nathalie Stutzmann (alto), Dörte Lyssewski (speaker)
Collegium Vocale Gent & SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Sylvain Cambreling
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...this is an excellent performance, notable for radiant choral sopranos, sensitive tenors, and an attention to details of colour and line that does credit to all concerned...the impact here...
About
This work has a dramatic mix of opera, oratorio, ballet and spoken theatre. It was first performed in 1911 and originally almost 4 hours long. The original text was by Gabriele d’Annuncio and in 2005 Cambreling commissioned Mosebach to write a new version.
Recorded Konzerthaus Freiburg on 19th & 20th January 2005Contents and tracklist
- Heidi Grant Murphy (soprano), Dorte Lyssewski (narrator), Dagmar Peckova (mezzo-soprano), Nathalie Stutzmann (alto)
- Collegium Vocale Gent, South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden
- Sylvain Cambreling
Act I: La cour de lys: Assez anime - Soufflez de pres, soufflez de pres (God, Twins, Chorus)
Track length7:11
Act III: Le concile des faux dieux: Die klagten die Richter bei Diokletianus (Narrator)
Track length0:38
Act III: Le concile des faux dieux: Paian, Lyre-d'or, Arc-d'argent, "The Hymn" (Die Kitharoiden)
Track length0:49
Act III: Le concile des faux dieux: Avez-vous vu delui que j'aime? (God, Chorus, Voz Sola)
Track length8:14
Act III: Le concile des faux dieux: Adonis, du bist eine menschliche Blume (Narrator)
Track length0:58
Act IV: Le laurier blesse: Die Heiligen bezwangen in der Kraft des Glaubens Konigreiche (Narrator)
Track length1:23
Awards and reviews
June 2010
...this is an excellent performance, notable for radiant choral sopranos, sensitive tenors, and an attention to details of colour and line that does credit to all concerned...the impact here is of a composer working at full stretch, despite all his pantheistic pronouncements elsewhere.
