Gounod: Mireille, from "Mireille" and Mireille - Vincenette duet (Jodie Devos/Kate Aldrich)
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2018
- The soprano Jodie Devos sings Mireille's air "Heureux petit berger" and the Mireille - Vincenette duet "Ah ! Parle encore, achève", with the soprano Kate Aldrich, from Charles Gounod's opera "Mireille", with the Orchestre National de France, conducted by Jesko Sirvend.
A vast poem written in the Provençal language, Mirèio called to music. In the spring of 1863, Frédéric Mistral urged Gounod to stay in Les Baux, La Crau, Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in order to understand the context of the upset love between the daughter of the wealthy Ramon and Vincent, the humble basket-maker. So as to make Mireille sing convincingly the happiness of the herdsmen, Gounod found accents of an almost Virgilian simplicity of tone and freshness: the melody progresses by returning to itself with a regular syncopated pulse, momentum and emotion. There is great melancholy in this C major, borrowing from the minor for "Toujours libre! le coeur léger".
Regardless of realism, the buzzing of the cicadas is suggested, on the off-beat, by an oboe and a flute in octaves doubled by the pizzicati and the triangle. The duet offers two sections of almost serene lyrical fervour. Thus we first see Mireille upset, leaving the paternal farmhouse to join a wounded Vincent, then Vincenette (his sister) who reassures her by imitating her melody. Mireille then evokes the feast of Saintes-Maries and the little treasure she will offer them. This transition, touchingly simple, is the heart of this duet; every detail takes its full value and the oboe entry on "jewels" is pure poetry. The prayer ("Ô patronnes des amoureux") where the voices sometimes exchange and sometimes overlap, requires a rare and warm candour, a complicity: their (different) love for Vincent brings them together.
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triste triste.. mais ne meurent que ceux que l'on oublie.. les anges sont heureux et nous nous sommes malheureux.. !!!! ❤❤❤
romantque et émouvant cet opéra de gounod
Une Vincenette à la voix de Taven ? Emotion de revoir la jolie Jodie, qui vient de nous être enlevée. Et quel talent mélodique chez Gounod !
Beautiful! I actually saw "Mireille" a few years back in a professional and amateur production. The notes at the beginning say"with the soprano Kate Aldrich". Needless to say I'm doing all I can to appreciate Jodie's talents through her recordings after hearing about her tragic death from breast cancer. I just heard about it from the Stage newspaper.
C'est excellent, chère Jodie ! depuis la place Flaget , quel parcours et une voix qui s'arrondit et se nuance ! quelle belle voix !
Bonjour savez-vous comment s'appelle le chef d'orchestre merci d'avance
@@nicolebg1503 Son nom est donné dans le générique de fin : Jesko Sirvend
Such an underrated score. So unusual to hear any contemporary performance of this music! This is beautiful and unusual to hear a mezzo as Vincenette as most recordings use a high soprano! But I love this!