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Charles-Simon Catel
(1773-1830)
Les Bayadères Chantal Santon – Laméa Philippe Do – Démaly André Heyboer – Olkar Mathias Vidal – Rustan / Un Chef indien Katia Velletaz – Ixora / Première Bayadère Jennifer Borghi – Divané / Deuxième Bayadère Mélodie Ruvio – Dévéda / Troisième Bayadère Frédéric Caton – Le Brame Hydérane Thomas Bettinger – Rutrem Éric Martin-Bonnet – Salem / Un Officier maratte / Iranès Thill Mantero – Narséa Kareen Durand – Une Coryphée / Une Bayadère Solamente Naturali Musica Florea Svetoslav Obretenov National Bulgarian Choir Didier Talpain, direction
Recorded in Flagey, Brussels 18 February - 1 March 2013 Recording: Felicia Bockstael & Steven Maes / Serendipitous Classical Recordings Artistic direction: Hervé Niquet & Felicia Bockstael
1 book + 2 CDs – total time: 75’18 + 64’12 Book: hard cover, 128 pages, size 13,5 cm x 21,00 cm, languages French and English Limited and numbered edition of 2500 ISBN/EAN: 978-84-617-0631-0
An admirer of Mozart and a great reformer of music education at the recently opened Paris Conservatoire (1795), Charles-Simon Catel composed in 1810 Les Bayadères, an operatic masterpiece set in India, which competed successfully with Spontini’s La Vestale, which was then at the height of its popularity. Tinged with orientalism, it turns the page on Classicism and uses new musical and dramatic structures to create emotion. In a work full of action and excitement, the heroine of the opera, the bayadère Laméa – a ‘star’ role (then a new concept) – shows remarkable presence. On his arrival in Paris in the 1820s, the young and very discerning Hector Berlioz was filled with enthusiasm by this work.
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