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Rossini Le Comte Ory

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Gioachino Rossini

Genre:

Opera

Media Format: Vinyl

Media Runtime: 0

Mastering:

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Catalogue Number: LDX78 893/4

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Composition Artist Credit
(Le) Comte Ory Gioachino Rossini, Composer
André Vessières, Gouverneur, Baritone
Désiré-Emile Inghelbrecht, Conductor
Françoise Ogéas, Adele, Soprano
French Radio Lyric Orchestra
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Michel Sénéchal, Comte Ory, Tenor
Micheline Granger, Isolier, Mezzo soprano
ORTF Chorus
Robert Massard, Raimbaud, Baritone
Simone Codinas, Alice, Soprano
Solange Michel, Ragonde, Mezzo soprano

Composer or Director: Gioachino Rossini

Genre:

Opera

Media Format: Cassette

Media Runtime: 0

Mastering:

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Catalogue Number: K478 893/4

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Composition Artist Credit
(Le) Comte Ory Gioachino Rossini, Composer
André Vessières, Gouverneur, Baritone
Désiré-Emile Inghelbrecht, Conductor
Françoise Ogéas, Adele, Soprano
French Radio Lyric Orchestra
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Michel Sénéchal, Comte Ory, Tenor
Micheline Granger, Isolier, Mezzo soprano
ORTF Chorus
Robert Massard, Raimbaud, Baritone
Simone Codinas, Alice, Soprano
Solange Michel, Ragonde, Mezzo soprano

Composer or Director: Gioachino Rossini

Genre:

Opera

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 100

Mastering:

ADD

Catalogue Number: LDC278 893/4

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
(Le) Comte Ory Gioachino Rossini, Composer
André Vessières, Gouverneur, Baritone
Désiré-Emile Inghelbrecht, Conductor
Françoise Ogéas, Adele, Soprano
French Radio Lyric Orchestra
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Michel Sénéchal, Comte Ory, Tenor
Micheline Granger, Isolier, Mezzo soprano
ORTF Chorus
Robert Massard, Raimbaud, Baritone
Simone Codinas, Alice, Soprano
Solange Michel, Ragonde, Mezzo soprano
As EMI have yet to transfer their classic Gui/Glyndebourne set of this exquisite opera comique to CD and since promised rivals have yet to materialize, it is this sometimes roughly edited transcript of an occasionally congested mono recording made by French Radio in 1959 which is first into the field on CD. Despite the comparatively raw sound, the set is not without interest, not least because the conductor is D.-E. Inghelbrecht, conductor, composer, intimate of Debussy, and skilful exponent of all things quintessentially Gallic. Thus, for all its rawness about the edges, this account of Le Comte Ory is thoroughly and unmistakably French. Rossini would probably have flinched from some of the ladies' occasionally scrawny singing but he would have approved the general spirit of the enterprise which has about it the improvised, festive air of one of Sir Thomas Beecham's several operatic escapades for the BBC. Certainly, at 79 Inghelbrecht sounds in particularly coltish form. Some of the cast aren't up to much (Vessieres's cumbersome Gouverneur) but Senechal was an obvious choice for the Comte Ory at that time and he sings the role with spirit and some refinement. The Glyndebourne LPs are certainly to be preferred overall but this set gave me two hours' innocent pleasure, not least, as always, the riotous drinking scene in Act 2.'

Rossini Le Comte Ory

(Le) Comte Ory

Rossini Le Comte Ory

(Le) Comte Ory

Rossini Le Comte Ory

(Le) Comte Ory

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