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Title: L'isle Deserte
Artist: Labin Gaul Browne Kelly La Stagione Frankfurt Schneider
Label: Cpo Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 761203533626
Genre: Classical, Opera/Operetta
Release Date: 2021-11-05
Number of Discs: 1

Franz Ignaz Beck is one of the most fascinating composers of the eighteenth century, a musical visionary as well as a "genuine European" with roots in Mannheim. His opera L'isle déserte, long regarded as lost, has resurfaced in a score manuscript in France and now is celebrating it's recording premiere with La Stagione Frankfurt. Magnificent music and a magnificent text! Beck's L'isle déserte is particularly interesting in the context of music history: first, because it is by a composer who continued to await discovery; second, because a composer active in France availed himself of an Italian libretto - which continued to be an exception before 1780, especially when Metastasio was the librettist. Beck's L'isle déserte is thus a model example of a material and text-historical adaptation and even more so of a transfer to the music theater. In other words, in Beck's version of "The Deserted Island" Italian libretto artistry and French music theater meet, while special appeal is generated by this composer from Germany, an émigré, so to speak, who was not operating with French as his genuinely native language.

Tracks:
1.1 isle déserte, opèra comique~Overture. Allegro con brio
1.2 isle déserte, opèra comique~Nr. 1 Aria: Une épouse infortunée
1.3 isle déserte, opèra comique~Nr. 2 Aria: Mon toutou, mon bijou
1.4 isle déserte, opèra comique~Nr. 3 Duetto: Ah cesse de t'affliger
1.5 isle déserte, opèra comique~Nr. 4 Aria: L'amour éprouve mon me
1.6 isle déserte, opèra comique~Nr. 5 Aria: Tout de la reconnaissance nous presente le miroir
1.7 isle déserte, opèra comique~Nr. 6 Aria: Épargne á ma misère les pleurs de l'amitiè
1.8 isle déserte, opèra comique~Nr. 7 Duetto: Pour toi, j'ai l'me atteinte
1.9 isle déserte, opèra comique~Nr. 8 Aria: Je ne puis définir ce qui m'agite
1.10 isle déserte, opèra comique~Nr. 9 Rezitativo obligato / Aria Constance: Le temps partvient à tout détruire Vivre ainsi c'est mourir sans cesse
1.11 isle déserte, opèra comique~Nr. 10 Finale: Je sens palpiter, tressaillir

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