| All Artists: Debussy, Soderstrom, Royal Opera House, Boulez Title: DeBussy: Pelleas et Melisande (Complete) Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Sony Classical UK Original Release Date: 1/1/2009 Re-Release Date: 8/4/2009 Album Type: Import Genre: Classical Style: Opera & Classical Vocal Number of Discs: 3 SwapaCD Credits: 3 UPC: 886975272228 |
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CD ReviewsWagner's true heir Sean William Menzies | 01/19/2010 (5 out of 5 stars) "Debussy said, "We must de-Wagnerize!" and he was right. Despite that, with this one work he accomplished what Wagner set out to do with Tristan und Isolde - create sound, not music. This appears at first an unpleasant statement and the anti-Wagner crowd will doubtless adjust it to "Wagner created noise, not music." But here, of course, they are wrong. Debussy, unlike Strauss and Puccini, here created sound as well as singing. Richard Strauss inherited Wagner's experimentalism and Puccini inherited Wagner's romanticism. Debussy does neither but instead creates a sound picture, an atmosphere in which his story lives, just as Wagner did for Tristan and would never do again until Parsifal. As far as this recording goes: wow. The stereo sonics, the singing, Boulez's conducting. Definitely "music of the future."" EXCEPTIONAL CLARITY James Mcnair | CT USA | 11/29/2009 (5 out of 5 stars) " A treasurable experience is here to be experienced: to be brought so close to the interaction of the score and the voices. The production is Intimate and done with ultimate clarity. There is only a synopsis, no text, but every word is there to be heard, as well as every whisper in the orchestra." A Sophisticated Reading KC | London, England | 05/16/2010 (5 out of 5 stars) "The power and beauty of this set, and what makes this such a joyous reading, is the luminosity of the orchestral playing. Boulez stated that "to reduce the score to an accompanied recitative is conspicuously to betray it." Boulez has produced an inspired performance from the musical forces he was working with. Under Boulez' inspired direction, the music glows and pulsates with everchanging colour and life. Indeed, the score is shown in its miriad colours and this is a performance both flexible and shapely.
This is a most distinguished reading of the score. The voices are all top notch too. Elisabeth Seiderstriim, beautifully is in control throughout. Donald McIntyre, as Pelleas, gives a wonderfully nuanced performance. However, in the final analysis it is Boulez who must receive the loudest applause. This must be one of the best sets available. There are no weaknesses in the performance and the recorded sound is first class." |