Jean Morel - Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suites Nos. 1 and 2 (1959) [208 SACD]

Remastered by Bernie Grundman!

Jean Morel conducts the Royal Opera House Orchestra, Convent Garden for this recording of music by Bizet & Chabrier. Large, notably transparent soundstage on this recording, in which the orchestra is set back farther than the usual Decca/RCA. Recorded by renowned Decca audio engineer Kenneth Wilkinson.

RCA's "golden age" was more like a "golden minute" - in a scant period, roughly from 1958 to 1963, the beginning of the stereo era - pure vacuum tube amplification helped produce recordings demonstrating unparalleled fidelity & warmth, lifelike presence & midband illumination.


Tracks:

Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)
1. Espana Rapsodie

Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
2. L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1
Prelude; Minuetto; Adagietto; Carillon
3. L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2
Pastorale; Intermezzo; Minuetto; Farandole

Emmanuel Chabrier
4. Marche Joyeuse

Personnel:
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Convent Garden
Jean Morel, conductor