Gounod: Mireille (complete, Festival d'Aix en Provence, July 1954)

André Cluytens, conductor. Janette Vivalda (Mireille), Christiane Gayraud (Taven), Madeleine Ignal (Vincenette), Christiane Jacquin (Clémence), Nicolai Gedda (Vincent), Michel Dens (Ourries), André Vessières (Ramon), Marcello Cortis (Ambroise), Robert Tropin (Le Passeur). Chœur du Festival d'Aix, dir. Elisabeth Brasseur.

DESCRIPTION: 3 discs, 33 1/3 rpm, 12. in. 

NOTES: Recorded July 1954 in Aix-en-Provence. Box-set with booklet designed by Éditions Mercure, Paris. Near-simultaneous release in French (Columbia) and English (Angel) editions.

• Pathé-Marconi Columbia fr. FCX 363-365 (1955) @Discogs (+see all versions)

• Angel 5355-CL (1954) @Discogs (+see all versions)

• Columbia/Pathé 293-298.

  • Columbia fr. FCS 363-365S (3 discs, d. l. Sept. 1957).

    • Excerpts (Vivalda/Gedda) as Columbia ESAF 209, 45 rpm, 17 cm. (dep. legl Oct. 1958): C'est toi, Vincent (act I); Chanson de M... la brise (act I), Cavatine: Mon coeur .... (act IV).

    • Excerpts Columbia FCX 30,162 (33, d. l. Nov. 1958)

  • US Angel 3533C (ANG. 35210-35212), 3 discs, 33 1/3 rpm. mono. Automatic sequence. Program notes by Emile Henriot and others, synopsis, and libretto with English transl laid in. (48 pp.).

  • = EMI VSM 2C 153 10613 to 10615. Boxed. France. 1979.

  • Rpt. CD EMI CMS 764382 2 (2 discs). 1992.

  • STREAMING:

  • Overture, in Cluytens: Complete Mono Orchestral Recordings, 1943-1958, 384 tracks (2017), tr. 203    ??OPERA??

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