Georges Bizet: L’Arlésienne – Complete Incidental Music (CD)

UPC: 4006408108153

Overview

Experience Georges Bizet’s complete incidental music for Alphonse Daudet’s four-act play L’Arlésienne, presented in Christoph Schwandt’s German concert adaptation. This 1998 Capriccio release features the full suite of entr’actes, interludes, and vocal numbers, interwoven with Daudet’s narration, performed by Gert Westphal, Andreas Pietschmann, Gisela Zoch, Martin Neubauer, the Kölner Rundfunkchor, and the Kölner Rundfunkorchester under Helmuth Froschauer.

Product Features

• Product Type: Audio CD (Complete recording of incidental music)
• Format & Packaging: DDD digital stereo; jewel case with 20-page booklet containing German libretto, narration texts, and program notes
• Total Runtime: 55 min 50 s
• Language: German adaptation (Christoph Schwandt) and spoken narration
• Label: Capriccio (Catalog 10 815) / WDR co-production
• Release Date: 1998
• Country of Origin: Germany (Made in Germany)
• Recording: Digitally recorded by WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln)

Track Listing

(Selections of Bizet’s complete incidental music, with narration segments in between.)

1. Ouverture
2. Prélude et Marche
3. À propos de la danse
4. Entr’acte I
5. Chanson d’amour (vocal)
6. Entr’acte II
7. Menuet
8. Entr’acte III
9. Farandole (vocal)
10. Final

(Narration by Gert Westphal, Andreas Pietschmann, Gisela Zoch, and Martin Neubauer introduces each scene.)

Publishers and Artists

• Composer: Georges Bizet (1838–1875) 
• Playwright: Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897) 
• German Adaptation: Christoph Schwandt 
• Narrators & Soloists:

1. Gert Westphal – Balthazar (narrator)
2. Andreas Pietschmann – L’Innocent (narrator)
3. Gisela Zoch – Mère Renaud / Rose Mamaï (narrator)
4. Martin Neubauer – Frédéri (narrator)
• Chorus: Kölner Rundfunkchor 
• Orchestra: Kölner Rundfunkorchester 
• Conductor: Helmuth Froschauer 
• Dialogue Director: Thomas Werner
• Co-Production: Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln & Capriccio 
• Digital Recording: DDD, WDR 
• Design & Artwork: sowiesodesign.de 

Made in Germany

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