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Peace

Ars Produktion

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Jun 12, 2026

With his concept album PEACE, renowned Austrian violinist and composer Yury Revich (-1991) invites listeners on a journey through the world to explore inner and universal peace through the voices of composers from different backgrounds and cultures. The consistently melodious program also includes compositions by Yury Revich himself: his Impressions - short, connecting pieces of music created especially for this project - as well as two original poems, act as conceptual bridges within the chapters of the album and shape PEACE into a coherent musical narrative. Sensitively interpreted by Yury Revich together with accordionist Basha Slavinska and pianists David Chen and Volodymyr Borodin, the album acquires a special artistic depth and coherence.

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Ars Produktion

Jun 12, 2026

ARS38698

Massenet: Griselidis

Bru Zane

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Feb 21, 2025

Paris discovered Massenet's Griselidis at the Opera-Comique on 20 November 1901. The work is based on a medieval folktale retold by Boccaccio and Perrault, among others, and already set to music several times in the Baroque era. It gave Massenet the opportunity to handle the 'Gothic' colouring of which the early twentieth century could not get enough. The inventive libretto by Armand Silvestre and Eugene Morand explores unusually contrasted registers: the religious, the fantastical, the sentimental and the warlike. Above all, the presence of a scene-stealing Devil, saddled with a cantankerous wife, offers the possibility of contrasting the serious (or sublime) and the comic (or grotesque). Massenet thus produced a rare example of cross-genre equilibrium, a jewel of French demi-caractere, typical of the Opera-Comique repertory. Although the opera renounces spoken dialogue, theatrical declamation nevertheless creeps into a few particularly successful scenes. Two magnificent baritone roles - the Marquis and the Devil - oppose each other with the full trappings of Romantic vocality, while Griselidis makes a noble and introspective heroine, the perfect model of the French soprano.

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Bru Zane

Feb 21, 2025

BZ1058

Massenet: Werther (Baritone Version)

Bru Zane

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May 24, 2024

Massenet's Werther is one of those masterpieces that were rejected or shunned at the time of their creation. Sketched in the 1880s, the score was turned down by the director of the Opera-Comique and had to make do with a premiere in German, far from Paris, before finally being heard in Paris in 1893. It gradually established itself as one of the composer's most personal works, in which he showed himself to be as fine a colourist as he was a master of the art of the 'motif de rappel'. In adapting Goethe's novel, Massenet and his librettists gave greater prominence to the character of Charlotte, thus placing the struggle between duty and passion at the centre of the narrative. The role of Werther, originally assigned to a tenor, was also sung by the baritone Mattia Battistini with the composer's approval. Provided the singer makes skilful use of voix mixte, this version gives the work a melancholy colouring ideal for portraying it's hero's suicidal temperament. Tassis Christoyannis follows this approach in exemplary fashion, opposite the reserved yet moving Charlotte of Veronique Gens. Both singers give the text the preponderant role allotted to it by French operatic tradition.

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Bru Zane

May 24, 2024

BZ1056

Massenet: Ariane / Campellone, Munich Radio Orchestra

Bru Zane

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Sep 08, 2023

‘It would be difficult to find a simpler and more poignant subject’, Massenet remarked during the composition of Ariane, a vast score in five acts premiered at the Paris Opéra in October 1906. The libretto by Catulle Mendès is part ancient drama, part symbolist poem, and sets Phaedra and Ariadne, two sisters in love with Theseus, in violent conflict with each other. This epic work does not shrink from relating the combat against the Minotaur, from showing a ship tossed by the raging billows, nor even from transporting the audience to the Underworld where Persephone reigns. Despite its flamboyant orchestration, its grandiose scenography and its triumphant premiere, Ariane remains one of the few Massenet operas never recorded until now. The young Egyptian soprano Amina Edris takes the title role with ardour and passion, surrounded by a cast well versed in the specificities of the French style. The Bavarian Radio Chorus provides dedicated support in the epic scenes, under the baton of Laurent Campellone, a great champion of Massenet.

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Bru Zane

Sep 08, 2023

BZ1053

Massenet: Songs with Orchestra, Vol. 2

Bru Zane

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Feb 06, 2026

If Massenet is best-known as the champion of French opera, his contribution to the genre of the m�lodie merits reassessment - as is demonstrated by this programme of exquisitely orchestrated songs, all of which have remained in manuscript form. The Expressions lyriques form the pinnacle of these experiments, blending speech and song. The cycle Chansons des bois d'Amaranthe is also notable for the originality of it's scoring: a quartet of singers in dialogue with an orchestra animated by a voluble piano part.

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Massenet: Songs with Orchestra, Vol. 2

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Bru Zane

Feb 06, 2026

BZ2008

Massenet: Cherubin / Villaume, Breedt, Ciofi

Dynamic

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Jan 01, 2011

JULES MASSENET: Michelle Breedt; Patrizia Ciofi; Carmela Remigio; Teresa di Bari; Alessandra Palomba; Giorgio Surian; Nicola Ebau; Bruno Lazzaretti; Riccardo Novaro; Emenuele Giannino; George Mosley; AlessandroPerucca; Orchestra & Chorus del Teaatro Lirico di Cagliari/Emmanu JULES MASSENET: Cherubin.

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Dynamic

Jan 01, 2011

DYN-33508

Massenet: Visions, Overtures (2), Espada, & Les Erinnyes Suite / Tingaud, RSNO

Naxos

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Oct 09, 2020

Jules Massenet is famous for his series of 27 operas that include Manon and Werther, but he also wrote a significant portfolio of orchestral music which include ballets, orchestral suites and incidental music. The works presented here show his versatility and lyricism and include the one-act ballet Espada, saturated in Iberian color and beguiling rhythms, as well as Les Érinnyes (‘The Furies’) with a vivid sequence of contrasting themes. Modeled after Liszt, Visions is a poème-symphonique of both ethereal and dramatic power.

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Between JoAnn Falletta and Jean-Luc Tingaud, Naxos seems to be cornering the market when it comes to unusual but worthy repertoire. Tingaud’s specialty, unsurprisingly, has (thus far) focused on French music, and this Massenet collection includes some pretty nifty and rare titles. Visions, for example, is a symphonic poem in Lisztian style dating from 1891, and it’s an imposing and impressive fourteen-minute hunk of good, romantic music. Brumaire is a powerful, militant overture that belies the composer’s reputation as little more than a soft orchestral voluptuary.

The Espada Suite is another in the seemingly endless series of French works with a Spanish flavor, and it’s none the worse for that. Best of all, perhaps, is the incidental music to Érinnyes (The Furies). Dating from 1876, this substantial half hour of music features an extended “Scène religieuse” and a three-movement divertissement full of memorable and vigorous ideas. The program concludes with the darkly dramatic overture Phèdre–like all of the music here very well played and conducted with real conviction. The sonics, too, do the music proud. I love this stuff, and I suspect that you will too.

– ClassicsToday.com (David Hurwitz)

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Massenet: Visions, Overtures (2), Espada, & Les Erinnyes Suite / Tingaud, RSNO

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Naxos

Oct 09, 2020

8574178

Poème

Canzone

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Jan 01, 1998

Poème

Poème

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Canzone

Jan 01, 1998

CAN 33013

La Fl釦e Parisienne

Kontrapunkt

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Jun 15, 1994

The principal flautist of the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Toke Lund Christiansen together with the Orchestra’s solo pianist Per Salo launched on the French flute project a few months ago and found quite a few rarely performed repertoire. Many of the titles here are first recordings. Lund Christiansen/Salo duo’s earlier release of flute works by Joachim Andersen (Kontrapunkt 32079) was a critical and commercial success.

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La Fl釦e Parisienne

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Kontrapunkt

Jun 15, 1994

KON 32186

MASSENET: Werther (Sung in English)

Chandos

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Apr 01, 2000

Classical Music

MASSENET: Werther (Sung in English)

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Chandos

Apr 01, 2000

CHAN 3033(2)

Massenet: Ève

Bongiovanni

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Jan 01, 2009

Classical Music

Massenet: Ève

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Bongiovanni

Jan 01, 2009

GB2442-2

Massenet: Thais; Puccini: Il Tabarro (Finale)

Bongiovanni

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Jan 01, 2004

MASSENET BASTIANINI; FORTI; SCARLINI; TOFFOLO (COND) THAIS- RECORDED LIVE IN TRIESTE, 1954; PUCCINI: II TABARR0 (FINALE)- RECORDED IN HAMBURG, 1953

Massenet: Thais; Puccini: Il Tabarro (Finale)

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Bongiovanni

Jan 01, 2004

HOC003/4

Massenet: Cendrillon

Naxos AudioVisual

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Aug 10, 2018

Jules Massenet's fairy-tale opera Cendrillon ('Cinderella') was an immediate success at it's premiere in 1899 at the Op�ra-Comique in Paris. Massenet, then at the height of his powers, creates a magical sound-world full of wit, enchantment and perfumed elegance to match librettist Henri Cain's coming-of-age adaptation of this classic fairy tale. The colorful fantasy world created by the acclaimed stage director Barbrara Mundel and set designer Olga Motta features the British-Swiss soprano, Kim-Lillian Strebel, in her critically acclaimed title role. Kim-Lillian Strebel has received critical acclaim following a number of high profile debuts. She has acquired an extensive repertoire to include several high-profile roles. She recently made her US concert debut with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

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Naxos AudioVisual

Aug 10, 2018

2110563

Massenet: Marie-Magdeleine (Live)

Bongiovanni

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Jan 01, 2010

Classical Music

Massenet: Marie-Magdeleine (Live)

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Bongiovanni

Jan 01, 2010

GB2447/48-2

Massenet: Les amoureuses sont des folles / Silver, Bonynge

SOMM Recordings

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Aug 01, 2015

This is the second disc of songs with Sally Silver and Richard Bonynge appearing on SOMM. The collection of songs on this CD ranges across the whole of Massenet's career as a composer. This selection also includes duets and other settings for solo voice groupings, of which Massenet composed many.

"What an adventurous move it is for a record company to provide listeners with the opportunity to hear songs that have not been committed to disc time and time again." - IRR

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SOMM Recordings

Aug 01, 2015

SOMMCD 0151

Massenet: Thais / Viotti, Mei, Pertusi, Joyner, Fel

Dynamic

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Jan 29, 2013

A gorgeous performance from Eva Mei and Michele Pertusi with the Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro La Fenice in one of Massenet’s most loved and performed operas, Thaïs.

Massenet: Thais / Viotti, Mei, Pertusi, Joyner, Fel

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Dynamic

Jan 29, 2013

DYN-CDS739

Massenet: Ballet Suites / Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

Capriccio

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Apr 07, 2017

Capriccio Encore is a series of re-releases of the most famous recordings from Capriccio’s back catalogue, fully re-mastered and competitively priced. The legendary recordings of artists such as Sandor Végh, Ton Koopman, Sir Neville Marriner and the Vienna Boys’ Choir also contain repertoire highlights that have a particularly special appeal, from the baroque to the present day. This installment in the series features Sir Neville Marriner conducting his Academy of St. Martin In the Fields as they perform ballet suites written by French Romantic composer Jules Emile Frederic Massenet. Massenet was a skilled orchestrator, and willingly wrote ballet episodes for his numerous operas as well as one stand-along ballet. His style with its graceful movement was perfectly suited to classical French ballet.

Massenet: Ballet Suites / Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

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Capriccio

Apr 07, 2017

C8016

Massenet & Ravel: Parisienne

Haenssler Classic

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Oct 04, 2024

Eloise Bella Kohn is a rare artist: eclectic pianist, record producer, festival founder, committed to intercultural dialogue, her passion for music, dance and literature drives a creativity that nourishes her universe from baroque music to contemporary repertoire. Eloise Bella Kohn is one of the most promising artists on today's classical music scene, and performs all over the world in prestigious concert halls and festivals.

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Haenssler Classic

Oct 04, 2024

HC24047

Massenet: Herodiade

Naxos

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Nov 22, 2024

Deutsche Oper Berlin's production of Massenet's four-act version of Herodiade features an outstanding cast, including the Australian soprano Nicole Car and Canadian baritone Etienne Dupuis. This live recording from June 2023 is conducted by Deutsche Oper Berlin's principal guest conductor, Enrique Mazzola.

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Naxos

Nov 22, 2024

8660540-41

La vie d'une rose / Silver, Tocci, Bonynge

SOMM Recordings

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Aug 16, 2019

SOMM Recordings is honored to release one of the last recordings made by the much-loved and admired soprano Sally Silver before her death at the age of 51 in 2018. Silver’s third release on SOMM, La vie d’une rose returns to the evocatively perfumed songs of Jules Massenet following 2015’s well-received Les amoureuses sont des folles. Accompanied again by the renowned conductor- pianist Richard Bonynge – who also provides a moving, specially written tribute – she is joined by the mezzo-soprano Christine Tocci on six duets. The 25 (of Massenet’s 285) mélodies heard here offer a marked contrast to the familiar image of the composer’s famed operatic credentials. As Massenet expert Hervé Oléon says in his authoritative booklet notes: “Massenet, the song composer, was, in his own words, rather more at home in salons – this ‘bourgeois artist at the fireside’ as he liked to describe himself”. Embracing a multitude of emotions, sacred and profane, these songs employ wide-ranging forms and a broad musical palette to always captivating ends while also revealing a composer perpetually developing, keen to experiment and looking towards the future. La vie d’une rose is produced by the late soprano’s husband Jeremy Silver (Director of the Opera School at the University of Cape Town) who also provides the translation of Hervé Oléon’s booklet notes. Of Sally Silver’s previous releases with SOMM, her first volume of Massenet songs, Les amoureuses sont des folles (SOMMCD 0151), received the coveted Orphée d’or from L’Académie du disque lyrique and was a Recording of the Month for MusicWeb International, who described it as “A pure delight... [Silver and Bonynge] bring inspired, sympathetic, thoughtfully nuanced readings to these songs”. Songs by William Vincent Wallace (SOMMCD 0131) was hailed by Classical Ear as “A release full of delightful discoveries distinguished by persuasive performances of idiomatic charm”.

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SOMM Recordings

Aug 16, 2019

SOMMCD 0600