Roger Desormiere - Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (1941) [2011]
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BAND/ARTIST: Roger Desormiere
- Title: Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
- Year Of Release: 1941 [2011]
- Label: Pristine [PACO063]
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: FLAC (Tracks)
- Total Time: 02:34:24
- Total Size: 661 mb (+3%rec.)
- WebSite: Album Preview
Perhaps the definitive recording of Debussy's only opera
Désormière's classic 1941 Pelléas et Mélisande in fabulous 32-bit XR remastering
"a truly first-class transfer - Pristine’s is a superb capture of the original recording"
This recording was one of a number suggested and supplied to me by devoted collector John Philips, and I'm grateful to him for an excellent, near-mint set of French EMI LPs to work from. It's not unusual for LP reissues to provide excellent source material for 78rpm remastering, especially where the LPs were made using the best possible transfers from original metal master parts and then not subjected to major processing.
This is the happy case here - the EMI transfers were generally very well carried out, with perhaps two sides falling down slightly quality-wise across the entire opera. At times I've had to deal with varying amount of swish, but overall the sound quality has been excellent, especially after re-equalisation in the XR remastering process. This tonal correction has completely transformed what is already regarded as the reference performance of this opera. I've also been able to correct the tendency on some sides for the pitch to gradually drift downwards, using Capstan technology to eliminate wow and make other general pitch corrections.
The end result is a full-sounding 1941 recording, with real depth and an extended upper range, that is a far cry from its dim, thin and somewhat sharp (A4=450Hz) starting point. ~Andrew Rose
Tracks:
DEBUSSY Pelléas et Mélisande
Personnel:
Jacques Jansen Pelléas
Irène Joachim Mélisande
Henri Etcheverry Golaud
Germaine Cernay Geneviève
Paul Cabanel Arkel
Leila Ben Sedira Yniold
Emile Rousseau Le berger
Armand Narçon Le médecin
Chorus Yvonne Gouverne
Orchestre Symphonique, Roger Désormière
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Désormière's classic 1941 Pelléas et Mélisande in fabulous 32-bit XR remastering
"a truly first-class transfer - Pristine’s is a superb capture of the original recording"
This recording was one of a number suggested and supplied to me by devoted collector John Philips, and I'm grateful to him for an excellent, near-mint set of French EMI LPs to work from. It's not unusual for LP reissues to provide excellent source material for 78rpm remastering, especially where the LPs were made using the best possible transfers from original metal master parts and then not subjected to major processing.
This is the happy case here - the EMI transfers were generally very well carried out, with perhaps two sides falling down slightly quality-wise across the entire opera. At times I've had to deal with varying amount of swish, but overall the sound quality has been excellent, especially after re-equalisation in the XR remastering process. This tonal correction has completely transformed what is already regarded as the reference performance of this opera. I've also been able to correct the tendency on some sides for the pitch to gradually drift downwards, using Capstan technology to eliminate wow and make other general pitch corrections.
The end result is a full-sounding 1941 recording, with real depth and an extended upper range, that is a far cry from its dim, thin and somewhat sharp (A4=450Hz) starting point. ~Andrew Rose
Tracks:
DEBUSSY Pelléas et Mélisande
Personnel:
Jacques Jansen Pelléas
Irène Joachim Mélisande
Henri Etcheverry Golaud
Germaine Cernay Geneviève
Paul Cabanel Arkel
Leila Ben Sedira Yniold
Emile Rousseau Le berger
Armand Narçon Le médecin
Chorus Yvonne Gouverne
Orchestre Symphonique, Roger Désormière
Classical | Oldies | FLAC / APE
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