Bizet: The Pearl Fishers (highlights)

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Au fond du temple saint' has long been a favourite in the recording studio. Barry Banks and Simon Keenlyside, singing the aria in English… do Bizet proud. Banks and Rebecca Evans as the priestess... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2008, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Sep 2008
Catalogue No: CHAN3156
Label: Chandos
Series: Opera in English
Length: 78 minutes

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Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, GB 4, WD 13, Act I

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Brad Cohen, London Philharmonic Orchestra

Prelude

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Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, GB 4, WD 13, Act I Scene 1

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Brad Cohen, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Simon Keenlyside, Barry Banks

Introduction. At the break of day with the waves at play (Chorus)

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My friends, you must delay your dances (Zurga, Nadir, Chorus)

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Stay here and live with us, Nadir (Zurga, Nadir, Chorus)

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Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, GB 4, WD 13, Act I Scene 2

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Brad Cohen, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Keenlyside, Barry Banks

At last I have found you again! (Zurga, Nadir)

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Then from the holy shrine (Nadir, Zurga)

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Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, GB 4, WD 13, Act I Scene 4

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Brad Cohen, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Barry Banks, Rebecca Evans, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir

Hearing her voice my soul is a cauldron of passion! (Nadir)

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Again her voice will haunt me (Leïla, Nadir, Chorus)

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Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, GB 4, WD 13, Act I Scene 5

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Brad Cohen, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rebecca Evans, Barry Banks, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir

Brahma the god, sovereign of the world (Leïla, Nadir, Chorus)

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Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, GB 4, WD 13, Act II Scene 7

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Brad Cohen, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rebecca Evans

I am alone here in the night (Leïla)

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Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, GB 4, WD 13, Act II Scene 8

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Brad Cohen, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rebecca Evans, Barry Banks

My love was weeping while she was sleeping (Nadir, Leïla)

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Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, GB 4, WD 13, Act II Scene 9

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Brad Cohen, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rebecca Evans, Barry Banks

Leïla! Leïla! (Nadir, Leïla)

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Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, GB 4, WD 13, Act III Scene 11

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Brad Cohen, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Keenlyside

The storm has run its course (Zurga)

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Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, GB 4, WD 13, Act III Scene 12

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Brad Cohen, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Keenlyside, Rebecca Evans, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir

She is here! My heart…is pounding… (Zurga, Leïla)

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I would speak, but I cannot (Leïla, Zurga, Chorus)

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Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, GB 4, WD 13, Act III Scene 14

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Brad Cohen, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rebecca Evans, Barry Banks, Alastair Miles, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir

Spirits of dreadful night (Nourabad, Nadir, Leïla, Chorus)

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Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, GB 4, WD 13, Act III Scene 15

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Brad Cohen, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rebecca Evans, Barry Banks, Simon Keenlyside

Sacred light of being (Leïla, Nadir, Zurga)

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Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, GB 4, WD 13, Act I Scene 2

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Brad Cohen, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Keenlyside, Barry Banks

Then from the holy shrine (Nadir, Zurga)

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Bizet’s exotic opera The Pearl Fishers is now released on the Chandos Opera in English label. Although not as well-known as Bizet’s Carmen, The Pearl Fishers contains a wealth of attractive music, including the well-known duet ‘Au fond du Temple saint’, one of the UK’s ‘favourite tunes’. There is surely no better way of discovering the jewels of this romantic work than listening to the superb voices of Rebecca Evans, Barry Banks, Simon Keenlyside, and Alastair Miles.

A leading interpreter of the bel-canto repertoire, internationally renowned for his conducting of operas of Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini, the Australian Brad Cohen here makes his debut on Chandos. He first came to public attention when, a year after winning the 1994 Leeds Conductor’s Competition, he conducted the world premiere of Thomas Adès’s Powder Her Face. Since that promising beginning he has conducted a wide-ranging repertoire at English National Opera, Opera Australia and Opera North, to name but a few. This recording is the first to use Cohen’s own edition of The Pearl Fishers. Cohen was able to secure the original conductor’s score from 1863 and has created a new version, published by Peters Edition, that is arguably much closer to Bizet’s intentions.

The soprano Rebecca Evans takes the role of Leila. Her previous appearances on OiE include the role of Gretel in the Grammy-Award-winning Hansel and Gretel. ‘It was Rebecca Evans’s Gretel who took the honours. Spinning out radiant lines of delicious purity, she made it hard to see how the role could be sung better’, wrote The Times.

The baritone Simon Keenlyside, who takes the role of Zurga, has previously appeared on Chandos’s The Magic Flute. Both Barry Banks and Alastair Miles have recorded discs of arias for Chandos and here take the roles of Nadir and Nourabad, respectively.

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September 2008

Au fond du temple saint' has long been a favourite in the recording studio. Barry Banks and Simon Keenlyside, singing the aria in English… do Bizet proud. Banks and Rebecca Evans as the priestess Leïla make the most of their seductive Act II number 'Leïla! Leïla!'. And when Leïla begs Zurga to spare his rival's life Keenlyside makes 'I would speak but I cannot' into a genuine feast.

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