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Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ

André Cluytens, conductor. Victoria de los Angeles, soprano (Ste. Marie); Nicolai Gedda, tenor (Récitant); Roger Soyer, baritone (St. Joseph); Ernest Blanc, baritone (Hérode), Xavier Depraz, bass (Père de famille); Bernard Cottret, bass (Polydorus); Rémy Corazza, tenor (Centurion). Chœurs René Duclos.

DESCRIPTION: 2 discs, 33 1/3 rpm. Microgroove, stereophonic. Automatic sequence. Duration 1 hour, 13 minutes, 32 seconds.

NOTES: Recorded September, October 1965 and September 1966, Salle Wagram. Producer: René Challan; Engineer: Paul Vavasseur. Matrix no. 2YLA 11387/90.

See also 51~030** (earlier Cluytens recording, 1951)

• VSM CAN 170–171, SAN 170-171 [Pathé Marconi EMI, Parlophone Records Ltd.] (d. l. 1967). Libretto, program note by Maurice Tassart. 12 pp. (“achevé d'imprimer le 20 Novembre 1966”).

Other numbers EMI SANGL 170-171 Gold label; HMV AN 170-171

=VSM 2C 167-00059/60. @Discogs.

= Angel SB 3680 (S 36355-36356) [1967]. [Additional numbers on container: SBL-3680, BL-3680.] Program notes translated from the French of Maurice Tassart, and libretto by the composer, with English translation by Joseph Allen ([12] pp.) laid in container. @Discogs.

= Rpt. 1979

= Seraphim 6125 (SIB-6125) (2 discs) [1982].

• CDs:

CD: in Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ, Roméo et Juliette, EMI Classics ("Doublefforte" series) CDFB 68586 (2 CDs). With excerpts from Roméo et Juliette (Chicago SO / Giulini). [1987?]

CD (re-release): in Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ, Roméo et Juliette, etc.: EMI CZS 5 68586 2 (2 discs). 1995.

CD: in André Cluytens: The Complete Orchestral & Concerto Recordings, Erato (Parlophone / Warner Music) 0190295886691 CD 6$, tr. 1–17, and 65, tr. 1–4. @ArkivMusic.

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