Dramatic Ambitions
Donald Macleod looks at Chaminade and Holmes's contrasting achievement in the fields of opera and ballet. While Holmes wrote four operas, Chaminade had one successful ballet.
In today's programme Donald Macleod is joined once again by Marcia Citron and Karen Henson. They consider the events and music which inspired Holm猫s to write four operas, culminating in the mounting of her opera La Montagne Noire at the Paris Op茅ra. In contrast, after writing a successful ballet early in her career and despite two attempts at writing an opera, Chaminade never completed a work in either genre thereafter.
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Augusta Holmes
Ouverture pour une comedie
Orchestra: Rheinland-Pfatz Philharmonic.- Marco Polo 8.223449.
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Augusta Holmes
础苍诲谤辞尘猫诲别
Orchestra: Rheinland-Pfatz Philharmonic. Conductor: Samuel Friedmann.- Marco Polo 8.223449 S.
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C茅cile Chaminade
Nice-la-Belle
Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.- DG 471 331-2.
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C茅cile Chaminade
Ma premiere lettre
Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.- DG 71 332 -2.
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C茅cile Chaminade
Sombrero
Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.- DG 471 331-2.
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C茅cile Chaminade
Automne - No 2 of Etudes de Concert, Op 35
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C茅cile Chaminade
Callirhoe
Performer: Peter Jacobs.- Helios: CDH55197.
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C茅cile Chaminade
l'Ete
Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.- DG 471 331-2.
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