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Xerse : Opéra en 3 actes, avec un prologue extrait de Il Ciro / Francesco Cavalli ; Libretto de Nicolò Minato.
LIBRA Harmo. 1175/8
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Cavalli, Pier Francesco, 1602-1676.
- Standardized Title:
- Xerse
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Xerxes I, King of Persia, 519 B.C.-465 B.C. or 464 B.C--Drama.
- Xerxes.
- Xerxes I, King of Persia, 519 B.C.-465 B.C. or 464 B.C.
- Operas.
- Operas--Excerpts.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Sound recordings.
- Operas.
- Physical Description:
- 4 audio discs (224 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 in.
- 12 in.
- Place of Publication:
- France : Harmonia Mundi, [1985]
- System Details:
- analog
- 33 1/3 rpm
- microgroove
- Participant:
- Isabelle Poulenard, Judith Nelson, Jill Feldman, sopranos ; Jeffrey Gall, René Jacobs, countertenors ; John Elwes, Guy de Mey, tenors ; Richard Wistreich, bass ; supporting soloists ; Concerto Vocale ; René Jacobs, conductor.
- Notes:
- Harmonia Mundi: HMC 1175--HMC 1178.
- The prologue one of the pieces Cavalli composed to be interpolated into the opera Ciro, by F. Provenzale.
- Sung in Italian.
- Title from back of container.
- Edition: Martha Novak Clinkscale, realized and adapted by René Jacobs.
- Duration: 3 hr., 44 min.
- Manual sequence.
- Historical notes in French, English, and German by Lorenzo Bianconi ([2] p.); and program notes and synopsis by Clinkscale, and notes on the edition by Jacobs, both in French, English, and German (translations by V. Desbois, Escha, H. Perz, and D. Yeld, variously), and Italian libretto, revised after the libretti of 1654 (Venice) and 1657 (Bologna) by Bianconi, with French translation by François-Xavier Binnendijk, English translation by Liesel B. Sayre, and German translation by Silke Leopold (81 p. : ports.) laid in container.
- Also available on cassette: HMC 401175.78 ; and on compact disc: HMC 901175.78.
- Recorded May 1985, Conservatoire National André Malraux, Bordeaux.
- Contains:
- Cavalli, Pier Francesco, 1602-1676. Prologue (Ciro)
- Il Ciro.
- OCLC:
- 15083202
- Publisher Number:
- HMC 1175 Harmonia Mundi
- HMC 1176 Harmonia Mundi
- HMC 1177 Harmonia Mundi
- HMC 1178 Harmonia Mundi
- HMC 1175.78 Harmonia Mundi
- HMC 401175.78 Harmonia Mundi
- HMC 901175.78 Harmonia Mundi
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