Ryan Brown & Opera Lafayette Orchestra - David: Lalla Roukh (2014) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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CD1
01. Lalla Roukh: Ouverture
02. Lalla Roukh, Act I Scenes 1-3: Scène et choeur. C'est ici le pays des roses (Chorus, Bakbara, Kaboul, Noureddin, Baskir)
03. Lalla Roukh, Act I Scene 5: Mélodie. Sous le feuillage sombre (Lalla Roukh)
04. Lalla Roukh, Act I Scene 6: Couplets. De près ou de loin (Baskir)
05. Lalla Roukh, Act I Scene 7: Choeur. Voici le repas du soir (Chorus)
06. Lalla Roukh, Act I Scene 7: Ballet. La nuit tombe (Chorus)
07. Lalla Roukh, Act I Scene 7: Choeur danse. Bayaderes plus légères (Chorus)
08. Lalla Roukh, Act I Scene 8: Scène, Dieu, c'est lui! Quatuor, Je n'ose lever les yeux (Lalla Roukh, Baskir, Mirza, Noureddin, Chorus)
09. Lalla Roukh, Act I Scene 8: Romance. Ma maitresse a quitte la tente, Scène, et reprise du choeur (Noureddin, Baskir, Lalla Roukh, Mirza, Chorus)
10. Lalla Roukh, Act I Scene 10: Couplets. Si vous ne savez plus charmer (Mirza)
11. Lalla Roukh, Act I Scene 12: Duo. La nuit en deployant ses ailes (Lalla Roukh, Noureddin)
12. Lalla Roukh, Act I Scene 12: Ballade. Lorsque l'etoile du ciel sans voile-Duo (Noureddin, Lalla Roukh)
13. Lalla Roukh, Act I Scene 13: Ronde de nuit et final du 1er acte. La nuit au manteau sombre (Chorus, Bakbara, Kaboul, Baskir, Lalla Roukh, Mirza)

CD2
01. Lalla Roukh, Act II Scene 1: Entr'acte
02. Lalla Roukh, Act II Scene 1: Recitatif. Enfin…-Air. Ô nuit d'amour (Lalla Roukh)
03. Lalla Roukh, Act II Scene 2: Duettino. Loin du bruit, loin du monde (Lalla Roukh, Mirza)
04. Lalla Roukh, Act II Scene 4: Choeur. Ces joyaux, ces parures (Chorus, Lalla Roukh, Baskir, Mirza)
05. Lalla Roukh, Act II Scene 6: Couplets. Ah! Funeste ambassade (Baskir)
06. Lalla Roukh, Act II Scene 8: Barcarolle et ensemble. Ô! Ma maitresse (Noureddin, Baskir, Bakbara, Kaboul, Mirza)
07. Lalla Roukh, Act II Scene 9: Duo bouffe. Tout ira bien demain (Noureddin, Baskir)
08. Lalla Roukh, Act II Scene 10: Romance. Fuyez, fuyez (Noureddin)
09. Lalla Roukh, Act II Scene 10: Duo. Non, non, le ciel lui-même (Lalla Roukh, Noureddin)
10. Lalla Roukh, Act II Scene 12: Marche et Final. Gloire, honneur (Chorus, Baskir, Lalla Roukh, Mirza, Noureddin)


French opera owes much of its obsession with exoticism to the pivotal figure of Félicien David, a pioneer of ‘musical Orientalism’. His opera Lalla Roukh, first performed to huge acclaim in 1862, was the catalyst for the explosion in operas set in the ‘Exotic East’. The fairy-tale plot revolves around an Indian princess who travels to Bukhara (part of modern Uzbekistan) to meet the man to whom she is to be given in marriage. Along the way she falls in love with the minstrel Noureddin who is, in fact, the King of Bukhara in disguise. David’s evocative and magical orchestration is harnessed to 8660338-39 memorable melodies, including Lalla Roukh’s deftly harmonized arias ‘Sous le feuillage sombre’ and ‘O nuit d’amour’.

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