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Reiner Torheit
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« on: 19:48:48, 18-07-2007 »
Has anyone had any practical experience with RODRIGUE ET CHIMENE?  For example, seeing a performance, or hearing it on disk, or even - snakes alive! - actually performing it?

All input welcomed - the sooner the better, actually Wink

(Yes, yes, I know, I can Google it myself - I wanted to know what a bunch of smaaaarter-than-the-average netizens thought about it Smiley )
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« Reply #1 on: 20:15:48, 18-07-2007 »
Sorry, RT, I got the CDs out of the local library a good few years back, and it made such an impressionon on me I can remember not a note of it. Sad
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« Reply #2 on: 20:19:39, 18-07-2007 »
Thanks, Bryn - that does, in fact, confirm what I at first feared Wink   The plot is apparently the same story as LE CID, but that's not necessarily a recommendation either Wink
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« Reply #3 on: 20:24:43, 18-07-2007 »
I also note that the CDs predated the publication of Smith's "Critical Edition" of the score by some 8 years. Maybe Nagano worked with Smith's manuscript.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Debussy-Rodrigue-Chim%C3%A8ne-Claude/dp/B000005EE0 has clips you can listen to, for what it's worth.
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« Reply #4 on: 20:33:01, 18-07-2007 »
Ta, I'd found those clips - what little is there seems quite pleasant, in a rather innocuous way.  I shall find out more tomorrow afternoon, apparently Wink
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« Reply #5 on: 20:41:13, 18-07-2007 »
RT, I take it you have also read the review at http://www.amazon.ca/Rodrique-Chimene-Claude-Debussy/dp/B000005EE0.
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« Reply #6 on: 21:07:56, 18-07-2007 »
Many years ago (1988/9?) I saw a semi- (actually a hemi-demi-semi-) staged production with piano accompaniment (Paul Roberts?) of RLS's performing version. Pleasant but anonymous was my response, although much else of Debussy from the same period struck me the same way on the first few hearings eg La damoiselle elue, which I now rather like, having heard an ancient recording (Munch?) with an American ladies' choir which had a bit of sexiness to its sound. It probably needs that sort of personality from the performers which I recall Nagano didn't really get fin his recording of Denisov's orchestration (my experiences with Nagano in Manchester were often like that too - great at the impersonal/ analytical approach, far less convincing with the human/ musical...)
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« Reply #7 on: 08:30:22, 19-07-2007 »
Thanks for all the input Smiley   I'll let you know if anything concrete results.
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