RECITAL JANINE MICHEAU / JANINE MICHEAU OPERATIC RECITAL

Gounod: "Je veux vivre dans ce rêve," from Roméo et Juliette (Valse) [side 1 of LP]

Offenbach: "Les oiseaux dans la charmille" ("Air de la poupée" / "Doll Song"), from Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Gounod: "O légère hirondelle," from Mireille (Valse song)

Thomas:  Polonaise de Mignon ("Je suis Titania")

Proch: Air and Variations on "Deh! torna mio bene"

Rossini: "Una voce poco fa," from Il barbiere di Siviglia  [LSO] [side 2 of LP]

Charpentier: "Depuis le jour," from Louise

Bizet: Cavatine de Leila des Pecheur de perles" [LSO]

Roger Désormière, conductor; Janine Micheau, soprano

DESCRIPTION:  Paired for 78 issue (1948); then as LP (1949). Mono, ffrr

NOTES: Recorded 24-15 May 1948, Maison de la Mutualité. Matrix nos. FAR 26 (Mireille), FAR 27 (Roméo waltz song), FAR 28 (Proch), FAR 29 ("Depuis le jour"), FAR 30 (Thomas), FAR 31 (Doll Song)

78s:

"Depuis le jour" and Doll song: Decca K 1990 / GAG 1990

as 45 rpm: Decca 7108 /  London 40079

Proch, Thomas: Decca K 2126 / GAG 2126

Gounod: K 2158 / GAG 2158

LP:

London LLP 12. ℗ 1949 @Discogs

=Decca LXT 2528 (1951)

CDs:

Pearl GEM 0186 (2003)

Testament SBT 1347 (2004)

In Preiser 89605 series Lebendige Vergangenheit (2004), tr. 2-8

In Janine Micheau Operatic Recital: Decca Classiques 4808166 (2014), tr. 1-9

In Roger Désormière: Complete Decca Recordings (4 CDs), Decca Eloquence 4840416 (2020), CD  4, tr. 1-6.

In Decca Conductors' Gallery (21 CDs), Decca Eloquence 482117 (2023), CD 7.

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1948-05-24 %%