Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) - Samson et Dalila (1990)
Cover Front Album
Composer Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Conductor Sir Colin Davis
Orchestra / Ensemble I Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Length 122:42
Format CD
Genre Vocal; Opera
Chorus I Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Chorus Master Hans Peter Rauscher
Index 761
Out of Print No
Musicians
Soloist Baltsa; Carreras; Summers; Estes; Burchuladze; Smith; Malmberg; Swensen
Credits
Producer Michael Bremner
Label Philips
Track List
Samson et Dalila 58:09
01 Act I: Scene 1: "Dieu! Dieu! d'Israel!" 09:46
02 Act I: Scene 1: "Arretez, o mes freres!" 06:00
03 Act I: Scene 2: "Qui donc eleve ici la voix?" 05:33
04 Act I: Scene 3: "Que vois-je? Abimelech frappe par des esclaves!" 01:09
05 Act I: Scene 4: "Seigneur! la troupe furisuse" 02:52
06 Act I: Scene 5: "Hymne de joie" 05:48
07 Act I: Scene 6: "Voici le printemps" "Je viens celebrer la victoire" 05:32
08 Act I: Scene 6: Danse des Pretresses de Dagon 02:28
09 Act I: Scene 6: "Printemps qui commence" 06:07
10 Act II: (Prelude) 02:06
11 Act II: Scene 1: "Samson, recherchant ma presence" 04:25
12 Act II: Scene 1: "J'ai gravi la montagne" 06:23
Samson et Dalila 64:33
01 Act II: Scene 3: "Qui!... deja par trois fois" "En ces lieux, malgre moi, m'ont ramene mes pas" 16:53
02 Act II: Scene 3: "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix" 11:54
03 Act III: Premier tableau: Scene 1: "Vois ma mosere, helas!" 11:55
04 Act III: Second tableau: Scene 2: "L'aube qui blanchit deja les conteaux" 02:55
05 Act III: Second tableau: Scene 2: Bacchanale 06:18
06 Act III: Second tableau: Scene 3: "Salut! salut au juge d'Israel" 07:22
07 Act III: Second tableau: Scene 3: "Gloire a Dagon vainqueur!" 07:16
Personal
Purchase Date 3/9/2003
Value $36.50
Store eBay
Condition 100%
Librettist Ferdinand Lemaire
Nationality French
"Form" Opera in Three Acts and Four Scenes
Language French
Period Romantic
Details
Studio Herkules-Saal, Residenz, Munich
Catalog Number 426 243-2
Live No
Recording Date 2/1/1989
Spars DDD
Reissue No
Sound Stereo
Notes
Dalila: Agnes Baltsa
Samson: Jose Carreras
Le Grand-Pretre de Dagon: Jonathan Summers
Abimelech: Simon Estes
Un viellard hebreu: Paata Burchuladze
Premier Philistin: Donald George Smith
Deuxieme Philistin: Urban Malmberg
Un messager Philastin: Robert Swensen

Notes, illustrations, text and translations

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