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Composer: Guy Ropartz
Drame en musique en trois actes et quatre tableaux
Poème de Charles le Goffc
Mireille Delunsch, soprano (Kaethe)
Gilles Ragon, tenor (Tual)
Olivier Lallouette, baritone (Jörgen)
Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg
Jean-Yves Ossonce, conductor
Date: 2001/2014
Label: Timpani
http://timpani-records.com/2c2065.php
- Le Pays
Drame en musique en trois actes et quatre tableaux
Poème de Charles le Goffc
Mireille Delunsch, soprano (Kaethe)
Gilles Ragon, tenor (Tual)
Olivier Lallouette, baritone (Jörgen)
Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg
Jean-Yves Ossonce, conductor
Date: 2001/2014
Label: Timpani
http://timpani-records.com/2c2065.php
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PERFORMANCE: **** / SOUND: ****
Not just a neglected corner of French operatic history, this is a nook that few probably knew about in the first place. Joseph Guy Ropartz (1864-1955) was a Franck pupil and disciple who held important posts including that of director of the Strasbourg Conservatoire, where in succeeding Hans Pfitzner his job was to redress a Teutonic imbalance. Strasbourg was but one of the places in which this patriotic Breton lived in ‘exile’, and his longing for Brittany is expressed in some of the most significant of his 200 or so works, including his only opera, Le pays. Based on a short story by Charles Le Goffic, one of Brittany’s answers to Provence’s Frédéric Mistral, the three-act Le pays may be set in Iceland but it tells of the shipwrecked Breton sailor Tual who longs for home. He is never to return: having fallen in and then out of love with the Icelandic girl Kaethe, he is sucked into a bog. A fine cast makes a good case for this opera: Mireille Delunsch sings with passion and glowing lyricism as Kaethe, Gilles Ragon gives a powerful performance as the tortured Tual, and Olivier Lallouette is strong as Kaethe’s father, Jörgen. Jean-Yves Ossonce leads the Luxembourg Philharmonic with sweep through this darkly impressive score.
-- John Allison, BBC Music Magazine
Not just a neglected corner of French operatic history, this is a nook that few probably knew about in the first place. Joseph Guy Ropartz (1864-1955) was a Franck pupil and disciple who held important posts including that of director of the Strasbourg Conservatoire, where in succeeding Hans Pfitzner his job was to redress a Teutonic imbalance. Strasbourg was but one of the places in which this patriotic Breton lived in ‘exile’, and his longing for Brittany is expressed in some of the most significant of his 200 or so works, including his only opera, Le pays. Based on a short story by Charles Le Goffic, one of Brittany’s answers to Provence’s Frédéric Mistral, the three-act Le pays may be set in Iceland but it tells of the shipwrecked Breton sailor Tual who longs for home. He is never to return: having fallen in and then out of love with the Icelandic girl Kaethe, he is sucked into a bog. A fine cast makes a good case for this opera: Mireille Delunsch sings with passion and glowing lyricism as Kaethe, Gilles Ragon gives a powerful performance as the tortured Tual, and Olivier Lallouette is strong as Kaethe’s father, Jörgen. Jean-Yves Ossonce leads the Luxembourg Philharmonic with sweep through this darkly impressive score.
-- John Allison, BBC Music Magazine
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Joseph Guy Ropartz (June 15, 1864 – November 22, 1955) was a French composer and conductor. His compositions included five symphonies, three violin sonatas, cello sonatas, six string quartets, a piano trio and string trio (both in A minor), stage works, a number of choral works and other music including a Prélude, Marine et Chansons for flute, harp and string trio, often alluding to his Breton heritage (he self-identified as a Celtic Breton). Ropartz's musical style was influenced by Claude Debussy and César Franck, whom he studied organ with. He was also a writer of literary works, notably poetry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Ropartz
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Ropartz
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Jean-Yves Ossonce began his international career in 1991 in Great Britain where he was regularly invited to conduct BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC National Orchestra of Wales. From 1999 to 2016, he was Artistic Director of l'Opéra de Tours and l'Orchestre Symphonique Région Centre-Tours, and he devoted a great part of his activities to regional musical life during this period. Ossonce has made several recordings for labels such as Hyperion and Timpani. He conducts a wide range of lyric and symphonic works combining well-known repertoire with lesser known works.
https://www.agenceartistiquecedelle.com/jean-yves-ossonce
https://www.agenceartistiquecedelle.com/jean-yves-ossonce
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