L?opold Simoneau: Opera Arias & Duets
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Composer: Georges BizetComposer: Francesco Cilea
Composer: Domenico Cimarosa
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
Composer: Charles Gounod
Composer: Fromental Halevy
Composer: Jules Massenet
Composer: Etienne-Nicolas Mehul
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Composer: Ambroise Thomas
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Lee Schaenen
Conductor: Paul Strauss
Orchestra: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Pierrette Alarie
Performer: L?opold Simoneau
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-02-13
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
- Il matrimonio segreto: Cara non dubitar
- L'arlesiana: E la solita storia del pastore
- La Boheme: O soave fanciulla
- TOSCA: E lucevan le stelle
- Faust: Il se fait tard adieu
- La Juive: Rachel quand du Seigneur
- Manon: J'ai marque l'heure du depart
- Les pecheurs de perles: A cette voix quel trouble
- Joseph en Egypte: Champs paternels
- Mignon: Adieu Mignon
- Mignon: Elle ne croyait pas
- Manon: Instant charmant
- Manon: Je suis seul! Ah fuyez douce image
- L'Elisir d'Amore: Una furtiva lagrima
- La Traviata: Lunge da lei - De' miei bollenti spiriti
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Free Music Review: Tenor-lovers Alert!
Hit: 5 Stars
For some of the most beautiful lyric tenor singing available on a disc, please sample this recent release on DGG.Mr. Simoneau's recording are few and this one is particularly fine in its aria selection and the singing is simply above reproach.
This is a lyric tenor voice in the style of Schipa. Should you have doubts, listen closely to the aria "Una furtiva lagrima" from Donizetti's opera L'elisir d'amore. The pitch is perfect, the line is firm and the voice is beautiful in it tonal quality. The duet from Faust is sung lovingly and phrased to perfecton by this husband and wife vocal team, a feast of simple lyric beauty.
There are no fillers on this disc. Every duet and aria is a winner and I should perhaps note that since Mr. Simoneau's French diction is flawless, the arias from operas by Mehul and Halevy are particularly welcome. As a footnote, I should like to add that if you are able, find a copy of Simoneau's recording of the "Sanctus" from the Berlioz Requiem with Munch and the Boston Symphony. It makes all recorded competition sound amateurish.
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