Showing posts with label Bartoli. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bartoli. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

No broadcast of Giulio Cesare from Pleyel... New CD(s)

I am not a Cecilia Bartoli fan. Too much humming and winking is not my thing. Plus that morbid CD in which she included a detailed (>100 pg) notice about the tools which had been used to castrate young boys (I wonder who reads that in her/his spare time...) No thanks!

In any case  she will be the biggest star in the tonight's concert version of Giulio Cesare at Pleyel. This is the first of 3 concerts with a very starry cast: Bartoli, Scholl, Stutzmann, Jaroussky, Dumaux + Les Arts Florissants. Yours Truly called Pleyel to double check whether or not they planned any form of broadcasting (radio, video...) of any of the 3 concerts -- and the answer is NO! Instead, the concert will be recorded and released on CD, later this year.

The other CD you might be interested in is released by the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (TCE). Last May the Orchestre National de France, conducted by Seiji Ozawa,  accompanied Renée Fleming in the first ever performance of "Le Temps l'Horloge", songs composed by Henri Dutilleux (exclusively for la Renae).  Notice that this CD can be ordered ONLY from TCE (click on "Nouveau CD") - which is why I'm posting about it here.