Debussy, Claude > Mezzo Soprano

Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien / Isabelle Huppert, Sophie Marin-Degor, Kate Aldrich, Christine Knorren

1 CD / RCO Live / 2012-06-12

Works: Claude Debussy: Le martyre de Saint Sébastien, incidental music for soloists, chorus & orchestra, L. 124
Performers: Aldrich, Kate; Knorren, Christine; Marin-Degor, Sophie
Conductors: Gatti, Daniele
Ensemble: Orchestre National de France

Claude Debussy's Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien is a five-act musical mystery play that was produced in collaboration with poet and dramatist Gabriele d'Annunzio and...continue...

Frederica von Stade in Duets, Arias, Scenes & Songs

4 CD / Newton Classics / 2012-05-29

Works: Robert Schumann: Botschaft ("Nelken wind ich und Jasmin"), for soprano voice, alto voice & piano (Spanisches Liedersp; Das Glück (" Vöglein vom Zweig"), song for voice & piano (Lieder-Album...
Performers: Blegen, Judith [Soprano Vocals]; Brehm, Alvin; de Peyer, Gervase; Glickman, Loren; Katz, Martin; Kavafian, Ani; Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Lesser, Laurence; Maria, Joel Del; Phillips, Daniel; Schwarz, G...
Conductors: Bernardi, Mario; Davis, Andrew

Born in 1945, Frederica von Stade - who auditioned for the Met on a $50 bet - is considered one of the world's most accomplished...continue...
Recording information: Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York, NY (08/1977/07/1978); National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Canada (08/1977/07/1978); Studio No. 1, Abbey Road, London (08/1977/07/1978); Columbia...continue...

Album Debussy: The composer and his interpreters / Historic recordings from 1904 - 1955

3 CD / Aeon / 2012-05-08

Works: Claude Debussy: Ariettes oubliées; Mandoline; Fêtes galantes; Trois Ballades de Villon; Cinq Poèmes de Charles Baudelaire; Chansons (3) de Bilitis; Estampes; Images; Children's Corner;...
Performers: Bathori, Jane; Bonneau, Jacqueline; Brothier, Yvonne; Cloez, Gustave; Croiza, Claire; Debussy, Claude; Dufranne, Hector; Garden, Mary; Joachim, Irene; Meedintiano, Ivana; Meyer, Marcelle; Moiseiwitsc...
Conductors: Chevillard, Camille; Toscanini, Arturo; Straram, Walther; Desomiere, Roger; Monteux, Pierre; Truc, Georges; Coppola, Piero; Cloez, Gustave; Beydts, Louis; Lindenberg, Edouard

The "Debussy, Music and the Arts" exhibition, organized by Paris's Musée d'Orsay, proposes to evoke the musician's major encounters with contemporary artists and poets. Paintings,...continue...

The Debussy Edition [18 CDs]

18 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2012-05-01

Works: Claude Debussy: Nocturnes (3) for Orchestra; Première Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Orchestra; Jeux; La mer; Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; Images for Orchestra; Printemps,...
Performers: Argerich, Martha [Piano]; Badings, Vera; Borkh, Inge; Cassard, Philippe; Christ, Wolfram [Viola]; Cohen, Franklin; Danco, Suzanne; Dietschy, Veronique; Dumay, Augustin [Violin]; Ericourt, Daniel; Ewi...
Conductors: Boulez, Pierre; Gibson, Alexander, Sir; Haitink, Bernard; Beinum, Eduard Van; Chailly, Riccardo; Tetu, Bernard; Abbado, Claudio; Ansermet, Ernest; Gardiner, John Eliot; Lindenberg, Edouard; Fistoular...

Following our successful Mahler and Chopin editions, this is a joint Deutsche Grammophon/Decca Classics unlimited edition with benchmark Deutsche Grammophon and Decca Classics recordings....continue...

Debussy: Clair de lune / Natalie Dessay, Philippe Cassard

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-03-13

Works: Claude Debussy: Nuit d'étoiles ("Nuit d'étoiles, sous tes voiles"), song for voice & piano, L. 4; Quatre chansons de jeunesse - 1. Pantomime (Debussy); Clair de lune; Pierrot; Apparition; E...
Performers: Cassard, Philippe; Deshayes, Karine; Dessay, Natalie; Michel, Catherine [Harp]

Clair de Lune, the new album from leading soprano Natalie Dessay, celebrates the 150th anniversary of Claude Debussy's birth with a brilliant survey of his...continue...
Recording information: Salle Colonne, Paris (2011-11-12_2011-11-13&2011-)....continue...

Music Painters [5 CDs]

7 CD / Naïve / 2012-01-31

Works: Maurice Ravel: Une barque sur l'océan, for orchestra; Rêves, song for voice & piano; Daphnis et Chloé Suite no 1; Deux mélodies hébraïques (Two Hebraic Melodies); Conc...
Performers: Armstrong, Louis; Ashkenazy, Vovka; Barreaux, Gerard; Berezovsky, Boris [Piano]; Blumenthal, Daniel; Bon, Maarten; Bostridge, Ian; Bruns, Peter; Cabasso, Laurent; Casals, Pablo; Cassard, Philippe; Ch...
Conductors: Krivine, Emmanuel; Robertson, David; Equilbey, Laurence; ; Grindenko, Anatoly; Yablonsky, Dmitry; Mihaylov, Zdravko; Von der Goltz, Gottfried; Spering, Christoph; Jean, Kenneth; Halász, Michael;...
Ensemble: ; Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars; Duo Campion-Vachon; Ensemble Kasbek; Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five; Rare Fruits Council; Tempo Jazz Men; Végh Quartet

Albéniz: The French Connection / Marisa Martins, mezzo-soprano; Mac McClure, piano

1 CD / Klassic Cat / 2011-10-11

Works: Isaac Albéniz: Il en est de l'amour, for voice & piano; Morceaux (2) de prose de Loti, for voice & piano; Chanson de Barberine, song for voice & piano; Melodías (4), for voice & piano; Maur...
Performers: Martins, Marisa; McClure, Mac

All of the music on this CD was written between 1895 and 1909, the year of Albeniz's death. It is a remarkable document, for it...continue...

Susan Graham Live at Verbier: French Songs / Malcom Martineau [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Juxtapositions / 2010-08-31

Works: Georges Bizet: Chanson d'avril; César Franck: Nocturne, M 85; Camille Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre; Emmanuel Chabrier: Mélodies (6), for voice and piano; Alfred Bachelet: Chère ...
Performers: Graham, Susan; Martineau, Malcolm

One reviewer of Susan Graham's Verbier Festival recital praised her 'radiant voice' and marveled at her ability to convey the subtle nuances of what seems...continue...
Run Time: 60 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
Subtitles: English, German, Fren...continue...

Claude Debussy: Music for the Prix de Rome

2 CD / Glossa / 2010-01-02

Works: Claude Debussy: Le gladiateur ("Mort aux Romains, tuez jusqu'au dernier"), cantata for 3 soloists & orchestra, L. 41; Invocation, cantata for male chorus & orchestra, L. 40; La Demoiselle élue...
Performers: Girard, Guylaine [Soprano]; Heisser, Jean-Francois; Jude, Marie-Josephe; Marilley, Sophie; Richter, Bernard [Tenor]
Conductors: Niquet, Hervé

Claude Debussy presented himself as a candidate for the Prix de Rome on three separate occasions during the 1880s, the most innovative decade in the...continue...

The Record of Singing Vol 5 - From the LP to the Digital Era

10 CD / EMI Classics / 2009-03-10

Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman; Tannhäuser; Lohengrin; Die Walküre; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90; Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Die tote Stadt (The...
Performers: Alagna, Roberto; Aler, John [Tenor Vocal]; Allen, Thomas; Alva, Luigi [Tenor Vocals]; Ameling, Elly [Soprano Vocals]; Anderson, June [Soprano Vocal]; Andre, Maurice; Angelici, Martha; Argenta, Nancy;...
Conductors: Ludwig, Leopold; Konwitschny, Franz; Dobroven, Issay; Weigert, Herman; Prêtre, Georges; Cluytens, André; Furtwängler, Wilhelm; Karajan, Herbert von; Kempe, Rudolf; Susskind, Walter; Bl...
Ensemble: ; Collegium Vocale (Ghent); Consort of Musicke; Ensemble Artaserse; Ensemble Orchestral de Paris; Fretwork; Hespèrion XX ; Il Complesso Barocco; Il Seminario Musicale; La Grande Écurie et ...

EMI Classics is proud to present two 10-CD boxed sets of 'The Record of Singing'. Together this collection offers a breath-taking overview of the past...continue...

Recital at Ravinia - Brahms, Handel, Debussy, Mozart, etc / Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Peter Serkin, et al

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2009-02-10

Works: Johannes Brahms: Songs (8) for voice & piano, Op. 57; Die schöne Magelone, Op. 33; Songs (4) for voice & piano, Op. 46; George Frederick Handel: MEDLEY; Giulio Cesare; Claude Debussy: Chansons (...
Performers: Hunt Lieberson, Lorraine; Minter, Drew [Counter Tenor Vocals]; Serkin, Peter [Piano]

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson displays her own special sense of drama in a program on the theme of love, ranging over several centuries and covering every...continue...

Schumann: Frauenliebe und leben, etc; Brahms: Songs Op. 57 / Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Julius Drake

1 CD / Wigmore Hall Live / 2008-11-11

Works: Johannes Brahms: Songs (5) for voice & piano, Op. 106; Robert Schumann: Lieder aus Wilhelm Meister, Op. 98a; Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42; Claude Debussy: Fantoches; George Frederick Handel: Theodora
Performers: Drake, Julius [Piano]; Hunt Lieberson, Lorraine

"The stillness achieved in the song which deals with the coming of the couple's child, 'Sußer Freund', is spellbinding, and the profundity of the expression...continue...

Marilyn Horne - The Complete Decca Recitals

11 CD / Decca / 2008-04-15

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Otello; Tancredi; Semiramide; L'italiana in Algeri; La Cenerentola; L'assedio di Corinto; La donna del lago; Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi, op...
Performers: Ellis, Osian; Horne, Marilyn; Katz, Martin
Conductors: Lewis, Henry; ; Mehta, Zubin; Davis, Carl
Ensemble: Ambrosian Opera Chorus; English Chamber Orchestra; Geneva Grand Theatre Chorus; Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Suisse Rom...

"Each of the 11 CDs comes in a slip case with the original cover art, but no texts or translations are provided. At the price...continue...

Courbet - les musiques - Chopin, etc / Sokolov, et al

2 CD / Naïve / 2008-02-26

Works: Frédéric Chopin: Prelude for piano no 14 in E flat minor, Op. 28/14, CT. 179; Prelude for piano no 4 in E minor, Op. 28/4, CT. 169; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Hector Berlioz: Symphoni...
Performers: Berezovsky, Boris [Piano]; Blumenthal, Daniel; Cabasso, Laurent; Engerer, Brigitte; Gastinel, Anne; Guy, François-Frederic; Heisser, Jean-François; Holzmair, Wolfgang; Hurel, Juliette; ...
Conductors: Halász, Michael; Eschenbach, Christoph; Svetlanov, Evgeny; Lombard, Alain; Haitink, Bernard
Ensemble: ; Bordeaux Aquitaine Orchestra; French National Orchestra; Orchestre de Paris; ORTF National Orchestra

Courbet's output displays an astonishing range of subjects, styles, and formats. It conveys a well-nigh revolutionary creative force which may recall that of the great...continue...

Christa Ludwig: Live Recordings, 1955-1994

3 CD / Orfeo / 2008-02-26

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Così fan tutte, K 588; Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos, Op 60; Die Frau ohne Schatten, Op. 65; Capriccio, ...
Performers: Behrens, Hildegard; Beirer, Hans; Berry, Walter; Bonisolli, Franco; Casa, Lisa della; Cathy Berns-Rund; Chauvet, Guy; Donch, Karl; Fassbaender, Brigitte [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]; Flossman, Gilels; Gall...
Conductors: Böhm, Karl; Krips, Josef; Erede, Alberto; Karajan, Herbert von; Ludwig, Leopold; Prêtre, Georges; Heger, Robert; Maazel, Lorin; Bernstein, Leonard; Stein, Horst; Albrecht, Gerd; Mehta, Zubi...

Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande / Cluytens, Souzay, et al

3 CD / Testament / 2007-04-10

Works: Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Performers: Collard, Jeanine; de los Angeles, Victoria; Froumenty, Pierre; Jansen, Jacques; Souzay, Gerard; Vieuille, Jean
Conductors: Cluytens, André

Gramophone says of Andre Cluytens' Pelleas et Melisande, "Reactions to this recording will not be lukewarm." Many opera lovers prefer a more symphonic approach to...continue...

Sketches of Greece

1 CD / Coviello / 2007-02-04

Works: Franz Schubert: Die Götter Griechenlands ("Schöne Welt, wo bist du"), song for voice & piano (two versions), D. 677; Atys, D 585; Memnon, D 541/Op. 6 no 1; Iphigenia ( "Blühet denn hie...
Performers: Bauni, Axel; Doufexis, Stella

For centuries the Greek antiquity has held a strong fascination: As a romanticized ideal, it has inspired artists of many different origins to poems and...continue...

Musiques à Orsay - Debussy, etc

1 CD / Naïve / 2005-10-18

Works: Jacques Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Maurice Ravel: Jeux d'eau; Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet; Claude Debussy: Les a...
Performers: Azzolini, Sergio; Bauer, Marc; Beroff, Michel; Bouquet, Carole; Brezynski, Daniel; Castets, Maryse; Desjardins, Dominique; Holzmair, Wolfgang; Kruysen, Bernard; Lee, Noel [Piano]; Meyer, Paul; Moragu...
Conductors: Rosenthal, Manuel; Lombard, Alain; Equilbey, Laurence; Haitink, Bernard
Ensemble: Accentus Chamber Choir; Bordeaux Aquitaine Orchestra; French National Orchestra; Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra

Frances Musee dOrsay is an historic building, in which all of the arts from the second half of the 19th century are represented. The works...continue...

Poèmes de l'amour - Debussy, Chausson, Ravel / Graham, et al

1 CD / Warner Classics / 2005-03-29

Works: Ernest Chausson: Poème de l'amour et de la mer, Op. 19; Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade, poems (3) for soprano (or tenor) & orchestra (or piano); Claude Debussy: Poèmes (5) de ...
Performers: Graham, Susan
Conductors: Tortelier, Yan Pascal
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

Graham's unique charm is composed of her thrilling voice, an engaging and acting ability and her tall graceful stature. Her smooth lyric voice has an...continue...

Jennifer Larmore in Concert

1 CD / Video Artists International / 2004-08-24

Works: Henry Purcell: Music for a while; George Frederick Handel: Semele; Gioachino Rossini: Semiramide; Péchés de vieillesse, Volume 1 "Album italiano"; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Claude Debus...
Performers: Larmore, Jennifer; Palloc, Antoine

Janine Micheau sings Thomas, Charpentier, Bizet, et al

1 CD / Pearl / 2003-02-25

Works: Claude Debussy: La damoiselle élue; Emmanuel Chabrier: Ode à la musique; Le roi malgré lui, opéra-comique in 3 acts; Charles Gounod: Mireille; Ambroise Thomas: Mignon; Ham...
Performers: Collard, Jeanine; Micheau, Janine; Mollien, Jean
Conductors: Fournet, Jean; Desormiere, Roger; Bigot, Eugene

Debussy: Pelléas Et Mélisande / Boulez/Orch. & Chorus Of Welsh National Opera [DVD]

2 DVD Video / Deutsche Grammophon / 2002-10-29

Works: Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Performers: Archer, Neill; Cox, Kenneth; Hagley, Alison; Maxwell, Donald; Walker, Penelope
Conductors: Boulez, Pierre
Ensemble: Welsh National Opera Chorus; Welsh National Opera Orchestra

"Peter Stein's WNO production evokes the Symbolist, early 20th-century vision of the Middle Ages as suggested in Maeterlinck's play. The cast... are in finest voice...continue...
Picture Format: NTSC, Color
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Radio France - Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande /Haitink, Otter

3 CD / Naïve / 2002-01-22

Works: Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Performers: Couderec, Florence; Hery, Luc; Holzmair, Wolfgang; Naouri, Laurent; Schaer, Hanna; Varnier, Jerome; Vernhes, Alain
Conductors: Haitink, Bernard
Ensemble: ORTF National Orchestra

"In the 1930s Debussy's 'Pelleas et Melisande' was written off by one critic as 'fit for snobs and pederasts'. Since then we've had Desormiere, Inghelbrecht...continue...

The EMI Record of Singing Vol 3 - 1926-1939

10 CD / Testament / 1999-12-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Die Walküre; Lohengrin; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Das Rheingold; The Flying Dutchman; Siegfried; Wesendonck Lieder; Rudolf Wille: Königsballade, ...
Performers: Albanese, Licia; Allin, Norman; Andrésen, Ivar; Angelis, Nazzareno de; Arangi-Lombardi, Giannina; Austral, Florence; Baccaloni, Salvatore; Badia, Conchita; Badini, Ernesto; Baillie, Isobel; Ba...
Conductors: Barbirolli, John; Viebig, Ernst; Heidenreich, Johannes; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Weissmann, Frieder; Kun, Cornelius; Dobrindt, Otto; Blech, Leo; Muller, Hans Udo; Orthmann, Erich; Alwin, Carl; Schmals...

Nan Merriman - French & Spanish Songs / Gerald Moore

1 CD / Testament / 1998-05-10

Works: Claude Debussy: Chansons (3) de Bilitis; Mandoline; Poèmes (5) de Baudelaire; Ballades (3) de François Villon; Fêtes galantes (3), song cycle for voice & piano, Set I, L. 80; Alfre...
Performers: Merriman, Nan; Moore, Gerald [Piano]

The 78s - Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande / Roger Desormière

2 CD / Arkadia / 1996-12-17

Works: Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Performers: Cabanel, Paul; Cernay, Germaine; Etcheverry, Henri; Jansen, Jacques; Rousseau, Emile; Sedira, Leila Ben
Conductors: Desormiere, Roger

Note: This title is rare and is considered a collector’s item. It is priced according to its common market value. If the record label that...continue...

Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande

2 CD / Orfeo / 1994-07-05

Works: Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Performers: Donath, Helen [Soprano Vocal]; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Gampert, Walter; Gedda, Nicolai; Grumbach, Raimund; Meven, Peter; Schiml, Marga; Weinheber, Josef
Conductors: Kubelik, Rafael

Debussy: Nocturnes, La Damoiselle élue, etc / Salonen

1 CD / Sony Classical / 1994-05-17

Works: Claude Debussy: Nocturnes (3) for Orchestra; La damoiselle élue; Le martyre de Saint Sébastien, symphonic fragments (arranged by Caplet)
Performers: Rasmussen, Paula; Upshaw, Dawn [Soprano Vocal]
Conductors: Salonen, Esa-Pekka
Ensemble: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande / Abbado, Ewing, Le Roux

2 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 1992-11-10

Works: Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Performers: Courtis, Jean-Philippe; Ewing, Maria; LeRoux, Francois [Baritone Vocal]; Ludwig, Christa; Mazzola, Rudolf; Pace, Patrizia; Van Dam, José
Conductors: Abbado, Claudio
Ensemble: Vienna State Opera Chorus

Magnificathy'. The Many Voices Of Cathy Berberian

1 CD / Wergo / 1988-11-01

Works: Claudio Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 7; Claude Debussy: Chansons (3) de Bilitis; John Cage: A Flower, for voice & closed piano; The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs, for voice & closed piano; Sylva...
Performers: Berberian, Cathy; Canino, Bruno

Lovers of extended vocal technique no doubt would have preferred a full album of that kind of material from this groundbreaking, sometimes eardrum shattering, female singer. Her discography seems as t...continue...