Episode 93: 18193 Meyerbeer - Le Prophete

Episode 93: 18193 Meyerbeer - Le Prophete

After the brilliant success of their grand opera Les Huguenots (1836), Meyerbeer and his librettist Scribe decided to collaborate again on a piece based on a historical religious conflict. Meyerbeer's great personal wealth and his duties as official court composer to King Frederick William IV of Prussia meant that there was no hurry to complete the opera, and it was more than a decade in the composition and planning. Le prophète was first performed by the Paris Opera at the Salle Le Peletier on 16 April 1849. In the audience at the work's premiere were Chopin, Verdi, Théophile Gautier, Delacroix, Ivan Turgenev and Berlioz, among others. The production featured costumes by Paul Lormier and sets by Charles-Antoine Cambon and Joseph Thierry (acts 1 and 4), Charles Séchan (acts 2 and 5), and Édouard Desplechin (act 3). It involved the first use ever on stage of Léon Foucault and Jules Duboscq's electric arc light (régulateur à arc électrique), imitating the effect of sunlight. Purchase the music (without talk) at:Meyerbeer: Le prophète (classicalsavings.com)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

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Episode 208: 18208 On DSCH

Episode 208: 18208 On DSCH

The new album “On DSCH” by Igor Levit is a 3CD discographic tour de force by “one of the essential artists of our time” (The New York Times). That the self-styled “maximalist” enjoys pushing himself t...

12 Helmi 20223h 55min

Episode 207: 18207 Primavera II - the rabbit

Episode 207: 18207 Primavera II - the rabbit

Multi-Grammy-nominated cellist Matt Haimovitz’s latest recording, PRIMAVERA II the rabbits, features the next 13 of 81 new pieces written for Haimovitz. Commissioned by THE PRIMAVERA PROJECT, also fea...

11 Helmi 20221h 11min

Episode 206: 18206 aubades

Episode 206: 18206 aubades

aubades, the new album from Jean-Michel Blais, marks the Montreal-born artist's transition from pianist to composer as he writes for an ensemble for the first time in his career. Written during the pa...

10 Helmi 202247min

Episode 201: 18201 Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert 2022

Episode 201: 18201 Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert 2022

This year's concert was broadcast to over 90 countries all over the world and watched by more than 50 million viewers on TV. The TV broadcast gained a market share of 60% in its home country Austria –...

9 Helmi 20221h 52min

Episode 90: 18190 Chaplin - Modern Times

Episode 90: 18190 Chaplin - Modern Times

Modern Times is a 1936 American silent comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin in which his iconic Little Tramp character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film...

8 Helmi 20221h 32min

Episode 204: 18204 America

Episode 204: 18204 America

Daniel Hope takes a deep dive into the rich repertoire of American music, exploring its roots and distinctive qualities. "We know a piece is from America the moment we hear it", says Hope. "But what m...

7 Helmi 20221h 31min

Episode 91: 18191 Meyerbeer: Robert le diable (Robert the Devil)

Episode 91: 18191 Meyerbeer: Robert le diable (Robert the Devil)

Robert le diable (Robert the Devil) was immediately successful from its first night on 21 November 1831 at the Opéra; the dramatic music, harmony and orchestration, its melodramatic plot, its star sin...

6 Helmi 20223h 19min

Episode 203: 18203 John Williams The Berlin Concert

Episode 203: 18203 John Williams The Berlin Concert

The album includes some works known to millions worldwide, and others, such as the Suite from Far and Away and the moving Elegy for cello and orchestra, that may be less familiar but are no less brill...

5 Helmi 20221h 52min

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