Lord Berners: Le carosse du Saint-Sacrement Classical Opera Naxos

Lord Berners: Le carosse du Saint-Sacrement

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NU 6510

Lord Berners: Le carosse du Saint-Sacrement

Label Catalogue Number:
8.660510

Running Time: 01:18:46

Release Date: April 2022
Originally recorded in 2021

Genre:
Classical
Opera

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Lord Berners was an eccentric novelist, painter and aesthete, but it is as a composer that he is best remembered. Berners saw Prosper Mérimée’s play Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement in 1917and ‘was at once fascinated by the grace, the spirit and the character of this little work’. Abandoning operatic tradition, this light and transparently orchestrated version of the narrative unfolds concisely and continuously. The amusing tale is one of domestic bickering and a minor miracle brought about by an act of charity, ‘held together in the style of a symphonic poem’.

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Interpretation **** Sound Quality **** Repertoire Value ***** Booklet *

“… The only complete recording that was released by Marco Polo in the mid-1990s and has just been reissued by Naxos with a freshened sound, presents an ensemble covering the roles with a fine sense of musical lines and remarkable word clarity…”

Karin Cooper – Klassik.com – 12 October 2022

“… Gracefully conducted by Nicholas Cleobury and efficiently played by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Le Carrose is heartily recommended to lovers of the untrodden byways of English – or French – opera.”

Christopher Webber – Opera – September 2022

“… The opera is dramatically portrayed, the feeling certainly helped by the excellence of the performers. As far as I can possibly judge, they could not be improved. Berners helps by never overdoing the orchestration, so that the words can be clear. Every singer also has excellent diction – they even seem to be enjoying themselves…”

Gary Higginson – MusicWeb-International.com – 18 May 2022

“… Berner’s attractive, effective and sparkling opera is heard here in an interpretation that is satisfying in all respects…” ****

Norbert Tischer – Pizzicato.lu – 27 April 2022

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