Album info
Album-Release:
2017
HRA-Release:
27.10.2017
Label: Ediciones Singulares
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Artist: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester & Ulf Schirmer
Composer: Benjamin Godard (1849-1895)
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
- Benjamin Godard (1849-1895): Le Dante, Op. 111, Act I:
- 1 Malheur à vous 03:52
- 2 Guelfes ou Gibelins, qu'importe (Dante, Chorus) 03:29
- 3 Il a raison (Chorus) 02:42
- 4 Ah! puisse la voix populaire (Dante, Bardi) 06:27
- 5 Ah! de tous mes espoirs (Dante) 04:06
- 6 Courage, Béatrice (Béatrice, Gemma) 06:01
- 7 Le peuple a rendu sa sentence (Béatrice, Gemma, Dante, Bardi, Chorus) 03:26
- 8 Quand ils vont aux dangers (Béatrice, Gemma, Dante, Bardi, Chorus) 01:52
- 9 Voici notre drapeau (Béatrice, Gemma, Dante, Bardi, Chorus) 02:15
- Act II:
- 10 Nos généreux espoirs (Bardi) 05:08
- 11 Gemma! (Gemma, Bardi) 02:57
- 12 À lui, dès son enfance (Gemma, Bardi) 04:53
- 13 Paroles de haine (Béatrice) 04:02
- 14 C'est lui! (Béatrice, Dante) 04:52
- 15 Cher Gonfalonier de justice (Béatrice, Dante, Bardi, Chorus) 03:59
- 16 C'en est fait! (Béatrice, Dante, Bardi, Chorus) 01:57
- 17 Maintenant, vous pouvez remettre (Béatrice, Dante, Bardi, Hérault, Chorus) 03:58
- Act III:
- 18 Tarentelle 04:32
- 19 Allons, amis (Hérault, Chorus) 01:47
- 20 Ô maître (School Boy, Chorus) 04:54
- 21 Encore un jour qui tombe (Dante) 05:24
- 22 C'est chose bien fragile (Dante, Hérault) 03:03
- 23 La nuit! (Dante) 02:12
- 24 Toujours! (Dante, Hérault, Chorus) 02:58
- 25 Ah! (Dante, Hérault, Chorus) 03:25
- 26 Deux êtres vont là-bas (Dante, Chorus) 03:18
- 27 Gloire à celui qui rayonne (Béatrice, Dante, Chorus) 02:27
- 28 Je vais dans l'azur sans voiles (Béatrice, Dante, Chorus) 03:26
- 29 Entr'acte 01:55
- Act IV:
- 30 Ah! (Dante, Bardi, Chorus) 03:30
- 31 Pardonnez-moi! (Dante, Bardi) 04:12
- 32 Prélude 03:30
- 33 Elle se rend à la chapelle (Gemma) 01:48
- 34 Au milieu de vous (Gemma) 03:12
- 35 Je viens te retrouver (Béatrice, Gemma) 01:33
- 36 Ah! que tu me fais mal (Béatrice, Gemma) 02:10
- 37 C'est moi que l'on appelle (Béatrice, Gemma) 00:56
- 38 De l'éternel sommeil (Béatrice) 04:19
- 39 Je n'ose lui parler (Béatrice, Gemma, Dante) 02:00
- 40 Ô l'ineffable et pure ivresse (Béatrice, Gemma, Dante) 01:33
- 41 Nous allons partir tous deux (Béatrice, Dante) 02:14
- 42 Partons (Béatrice, Gemma, Dante, Bardi) 04:45
Info for Godard: Dante
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.
Veronique Gens, soprano (Béatrice)
Rachel Frenkel, mezzo-soprano (Gemma)
Diana Axentii, mezzo-soprano (Un Ecolier)
Edgaras Montvidas, tenor (Dante)
Andrew Lepri Meyer, tenor (Un Héraut)
Andrew Foster-Williams, bass baritone (Virgils Schatten / Alter Mann)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Ulf Schirmer, direction
No biography found.
Booklet for Godard: Dante