Debussy: Pelleas and Melisande

Cat. No. CHAN 3177(3)

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No. of discs: 3

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CHAN 3177 - Debussy: Pelleas and Melisande

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CD available From: 15 December 2011

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Pelleas and Melisande

154:49

Opera in five acts and fifteen scenes after the play by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)

Adapted by the composer

English translation by Hugh Macdonald

COMPACT DISC ONE

Act I

28:19

Scene 1

[Introduction] -

2:14

'I shall never find my way out of this forest' -

5:25

Golaud, Mélisande

'I am Prince Golaud, grandson of old Arkel, King of Allemonde'

4:15

Golaud, Mélisande

Scene 2

'This is what he has written to his brother Pelleas' -

3:47

Genevičve, Arkel

'All this perhaps may move us strangely' -

2:58

Arkel, Genevičve

'Who's that? Who has come in?' -

2:59

Arkel, Genevičve, Pelléas

Scene 3

'The gardens seem enshrouded in night'

6:39

Mélisande, Genevičve, Pelléas, Sailors

Act II

25:54

Scene 1

'I wonder if you know where I have brought you' -

3:39

Pelléas, Mélisande

'Was it also by a spring that he found you?' -

3:59

Pelléas, Mélisande

Scene 2

'Ah, ah! All is well, it's nothing serious' -

2:56

Golaud, Mélisande

'I'm… I am not very well' -

10:21

Mélisande, Golaud

Scene 3

'Yes, this is it, we are here'

4:56

Pelléas, Mélisande

54:24

COMPACT DISC TWO

Act III

36:10

Scene 1

'My hair's so long' -

5:51

Mélisande, Pelléas

'Oh, oh! What's this?' -

5:18

Pelléas, Mélisande

'What are you doing here?' -

3:38

Golaud, Pelléas

Scene 2

'Be careful. Follow me, follow me' -

4:02

Golaud, Pelléas

Scene 3

'Ah, at last I can breathe!' -

2:53

Pelléas, Golaud

'Speaking of Melisande, I overheard what passed between you' -

2:55

Golaud

Scene 4

'Come, let's sit down here together, Yniold' -

6:52

Golaud, Yniold

'Oh look! Mama has lighted the lamp in her window'

4:35

Yniold, Golaud

36:10

COMPACT DISC THREE

Act IV

36:55

Scene 1

'Where are you going?' -

3:14

Pelléas, Mélisande

Scene 2

'Now that Pelleas's father has recovered' -

6:25

Arkel, Mélisande

'Pelleas leaves tonight' -

3:26

Golaud, Arkel, Mélisande

'Don't keep putting your hand to your throat like that' -

5:01

Golaud, Arkel, Mélisande

Scene 3

'Oh, this stone's so heavy!' -

4:04

Yniold, Shepherd

Scene 4

'This is our last evening, our last evening' -

4:03

Pelléas, Mélisande

'We came here a long time ago, I remember' -

1:59

Mélisande, Pelléas

'It is as if your voice had come over the sea in the spring!' -

4:10

Pelléas, Mélisande

'What is that noise? They're closing the gates!' -

1:46

Pelléas, Mélisande

'There is someone here, just behind us'

2:43

Mélisande, Pelléas

Act V

26:11

'It would not be from such a little wound as this' -

7:56

Doctor, Arkel, Golaud, Mélisande

'Melisande! Melisande!' -

6:57

Golaud, Mélisande

'What have you done? You will kill her, Golaud' -

2:56

Arkel, Golaud, Mélisande

'What is this? What are all these women doing here?' -

4:51

Golaud, Doctor, Arkel

'What is that?'

4:29

Arkel, Doctor, Golaud

64:15

John Tomlinson bass - Arkel

Sarah Walker mezzo-soprano - Genevičve

Robert Dean baritone - Pelléas

Neil Howlett baritone - Golaud

Eilene Hannan soprano - Mélisande

Rosanne Brackenridge soprano - Yniold

Sean Rea bass - Doctor, Shepherd (off-stage)

Sailors (off-stage), Serving Women (mute)

English National Opera Chorus

English National Opera Orchestra

Mark Elder

Recorded in:

London Coliseum

broadcast on 28 November 1981

Format: Digital CD 16Bit 44.1Khz
Originally recorded in: 24 Bit Remaster

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