Méhul, Etienne-Nicolas

Music for winds by Etienne-Nocolas Mehul: Le Chant du départ / Les Jacobins

1 CD / ATMA / 2013-01-29

Works: Etienne-Nicolas Méhul: Mélidor & Phrosine; Ariodant; La Chasse du jeune Henri; Stratonice; Joseph; Euphrosine, ou le tyran corrigé; Chant du départ for chorus & wind band; Le Dix-...
Conductors: Lussier, Mathieu
Ensemble: Les Jacobins

The ensemble Les Jacobins originated with the desire to explore the rich but little-known repertoire associated with the French Revolution. The group is comprised of...continue...
Recording information: Église Saint-Augustin, Mirabel, Québec, Canada (06/2012)....continue...

Les Héroines Romantiques, Vol. 3: Tragédiennes / Véronique Gens

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2011-11-01

Works: Etienne-Nicolas Méhul: Ariodant; Rodolphe Kreutzer: Astyanax; Antonio Salieri: Les Danaïdes; Christoph Willibald Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride; François-Joseph Gossec: Thés...
Performers: Gens, Veronique
Conductors: Rousset, Christophe
Ensemble: Les Talens Lyriques

In her third 'Tragédiennes' album for Virgin Classics, French soprano Véronique Gens continues her exploration of French operatic repertoire. Tragédiennes Vol. 3 covers the late...continue...
Recording information: IRCAM, Paris (06/30/2011-07/05/2011)....continue...

Legends of the XX Century: Tenor Mikhail Alexandrovich

1 CD / Melodiya / 2011-05-10

Works: Charles Gounod: Ave Maria; Franz Joseph Haydn: The Creation, oratorio; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Per pietà, non ricercate, aria for tenor & orchestra, K. 420; Etienne-Nicolas Méhul: Joseph i...
Performers: Alexandrovich, Mikhail; Erdeli, Olga; Gureyeva, Natalia
Conductors: Piatigor, Leonid Pavlovich; Kovaleva, Anna

The fourth disc in the Legends of the 20th Century project features one of the greatest singers of the 20th century offering an example of...continue...

Étienne Henry Méhul: Joseph in Aegypten

2 CD / Gall Import / 2010-02-23

Works: Etienne-Nicolas Méhul: Joseph; Jules Massenet: Werther; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera
Performers: Berger, Erna [Soprano vocals]; Braun, Hans; Generesch, Gunter; Grefe, Gustav; Gunter, Horst; Kunz, Rolf; Luca, Libero de; Michaelis, Bernhard; Mill, Arnold van; Pfeifle, Alfred; Sailer, Friederike; T...
Conductors: Schuchter, Wilhelm; Rischner, Alfons; Gressier, Jules

Icon - Richard Tauber

5 CD / EMI Classics / 2009-10-20

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Etienne-Nicolas Méhul: Joseph; Jacques Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann; Ambroise Thomas: Mignon; Georges B...
Performers: Besl, Karl; Brown, Nancy; Kahn, Percy; Lane, Evelyn; Lehmann, Lotte; Lynne, Carole; Merrem-Nikisch, Grete; Novotná, Jarmila; Rethberg, Elisabeth; Schwarz, Vera; Spoliansky, Mischa; Stägem...
Conductors: Goehr, Walter; Geehl, Henry Ernest; Hauke, Ernst; Besl, Karl; Weigert, Hermann; Gurlitt, Manfred; Szell, George; Walter, Gustav; Weissmann, Frieder; Korngold, Erich Wolfgang; Lehár, Franz; Sch&#...

Lebendige Vergangenheit -John McCormack

1 CD / Preiser / 2008-04-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Lucia di Lammermoor; La figlia del reggimento; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Rigoletto; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; R...
Performers: Bori, Lucrezia; Jacoby, Josephine; McCormack, John [Tenor Vocal]; Sammarco, Giuseppe Mario; Werrenrath, Reinald

In his day, John McCormack was certainly one of the greatest lyric tenors in the world. Audiences loved him, but even he admitted to being...continue...

L'Incomparable Georges Thill

1 CD / Forlane (France) Import / 2007-07-10

Works: Jules Massenet: Hérodiade; Le Cid; Sapho, lyric piece in 5 acts (2 versions); Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; La traviata; Fromental Halévy: La juive; Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alceste; Giaco...
Performers: Thill, Georges
Conductors: Heurteur, Fernand; Bigot, Eugene; Chagnon, Pierre

French Opera Arias

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2006-07-04

Works: François Bazin: Maître Pathelin; Jules Massenet: Le Cid; Luigi Cherubini: Les abencérages; Charles Gounod: Mireille; André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry: L' Amant jaloux (Les Fausses...
Performers: Alagna, Roberto; Ellis, James; Foster, Lucy; Fyfe, Elizabeth
Conductors: De Billy, Bertrand
Ensemble: London Voices; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra

Gramophone wrote of this album of French Opera Arias: "A fine recital by Alagna which finds him in good voice and exploiting a sensitive feeling...continue...
This disc received the 2001 Gramophone magazine award for "Best Recital Recording."...continue...

Etienne-Nicolas Méhul: L'Irato ou L'Emporté

1 CD / Capriccio / 2006-01-01

Works: Etienne-Nicolas Méhul: L'Irato, opera; Le jugement de Paris, pastiche ballet (assembled by P.G. Gardel)

Opera Now Choice - George Hall
It was Napoleon who encouraged Mehul to leaven his more learned style with the graceful melodies of a Paisiello or...continue...

Making Overtures - Mehul, Haydn, Smetana / Kapp, et al

1 CD / Essay / 2005-08-01

Works: Etienne-Nicolas Méhul: Joseph; Franz Joseph Haydn: Overture to L'anima del filosofo, in E flat major, H. 1a/3 (originally for English opera, Windsor Ca; Bedrich Smetana: Oldrich a Bozena (Oldric...
Conductors: Kapp, Richard
Ensemble: Philharmonia Virtuosi

Méhul: Joseph in Aegypten / Schüchter, Rischner, et al

2 CD / Gala / 2005-03-02

Works: Etienne-Nicolas Méhul: Joseph; Jules Massenet: Werther; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera
Performers: Berger, Erna; Braun, Hans; De Luca, Libero; Genersch, Gunter; Gunter, Horst; Kunz, Rolf; Van Mill, Arnold; Welitsch, Alexander; Werth, Helene; Zollenkopf, Ursula
Conductors: Schüchter, Wilhelm; Gressier, Jules
Ensemble: Northwest German Radio Chorus; Northwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Leopold Demuth

1 CD / Preiser / 2003-11-01

Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman; Tannhäuser; Die Walküre; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Siegfried; Albert Lortzing: Zar und Zimmermann; Charles Gounod: Faust; Gioachino Rossini: ...
Performers: Demuth, Leopold; Elizza, Elisa; Kittel, Hermine

Léopold Simoneau - Opern-Arien und Duette

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2001-02-13

Works: Domenico Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto; Francesco Cilèa: L'Arlesiana; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Tosca; Charles Gounod: Faust; Fromental Halévy: La juive; Jules Massenet: Manon; G...
Performers: Alarie, Pierrette; Simoneau, Léopold [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Schaenen, Lee; Strauss, Paul

"Simoneau was the most elegant lyric tenor of his time... His 1957 DG recital record... has been unavailable since the 60s, and it's wonderful to...continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Richard Tauber

1 CD / Preiser / 1997-05-20

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Don Giovanni; Franz Joseph Haydn: The Cre...
Performers: Kahn, Percy; Tauber, Richard
Conductors: Alwin, Carl; Goehr, Walter; Geehl, Henry Ernest; Hauke, Ernst; Weissmann, Frieder
Ensemble: ; Orchestra

The Wallace Collection - The Origin of the Species

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco; Niccolò Paganini: Variations for Violin and Orchestra on "Carnival of Venice", Op. 10; Arthur Sullivan: The Lost Chord; Jules Levy: Whirlwind Polka; W.H. Montgomery: My ...
Performers: Dudgeon, Ralph; Hollamby, Stephen; Wallace, John [Trumpet]

Méhul: Complete Symphonies / Swierczewski, et al

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Etienne-Nicolas Méhul: Le jeune Henri; Symphony no 1 in G minor; Symphony no 2 in D major; Le trésor supposé; Symphony no 3 in C major; Symphony no 4 in E major
Conductors: Swierczewski, Michel
Ensemble: Gulbenkian Foundation Symphony Orchestra Lisbon

The Jane Austen Companion

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: Sinfonia (String Symphony) for string orchestra no 4 in C minor; Michael Haydn: Symphony in F major, MH 25; Johann Friedrich Fasch: Concerto for trumpet, oboe d'amore & violin in E...
Performers: Anderson, John; Kuchl, Rainer; Michejew, Alexander; Thomas, Peter [Violin]; Wallace, John [Trumpet]
Conductors: Boughton, William; Fischer, Adam; Swierczewski, Michel
Ensemble: Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra; English String Orchestra; Gulbenkian Foundation Symphony Orchestra Lisbon

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Marcel Journet Vol 2

1 CD / Preiser / 1996-02-20

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: La Favorita; Lucia di Lammermoor; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Hugenoten; Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; Jules Massenet: Cléopâtre; Etienne-Nicolas Méhul: Chant du d...
Performers: Journet, Marcel