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Massenet: Le Cid

Plácido Domingo (Rodrigue), Grace Bumbry (Chimène), Paul Plishka (Don Diègue), Jake Gardner (Le Roi), Eleanor Bergquist (L'Infante), Clinton Ingram (Don Arias), Theodore Hodges (Don Alonzo), Arnold Voketatis (Don Gormas), Peter Lightfoot (Moorish Envoy), John Adams (St James)

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Massenet: Le Cid
…essential listening for the indefatigable ardour and sorrow of Domingo in the insanely taxing title, and Grace Bumbry… makes hair-raising work of Chimene's vengeful determination.

BBC Music Magazine, October 20094 out of 5 stars

Massenet: Le Cid

Plácido Domingo (Rodrigue), Grace Bumbry (Chimène), Paul Plishka (Don Diègue), Jake Gardner (Le Roi), Eleanor Bergquist (L'Infante), Clinton Ingram (Don Arias), Theodore Hodges (Don Alonzo), Arnold Voketatis (Don Gormas), Peter Lightfoot (Moorish Envoy), John Adams (St James)

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…essential listening for the indefatigable ardour and sorrow of Domingo in the insanely taxing title, and Grace Bumbry… makes hair-raising work of Chimene's vengeful determination.

BBC Music Magazine, October 20094 out of 5 stars

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Le Cid is Massenet’s sixth opera and comes after the more frequently performed and popular Manon. This recording of Le Cid was the world premiere recording made at Carnegie hall in 1976 and starring PlÁcido Domingo and Grace Bumbry as Rodrigue and ChimÈne, the central characters who are to be married. The opera is conceived on a grand scale with much Spanish and Moorish colour and effects, and includes the customary ballet, which presents a sequence of Spanish dances.

Release includes a booklet with a three language synopsis [English / French / German], full cast list and detailed track list.

Artists

Plácido Domingo (Rodrigue), Grace Bumbry (Chimène), Paul Plishka (Don Diègue), Jake Gardner (Le Roi), Eleanor Bergquist (L'Infante), Clinton Ingram (Don Arias), Theodore Hodges (Don Alonzo), Arnold Voketatis (Don Gormas), Peter Lightfoot (Moorish Envoy), John Adams (St James)

Opera Orchestra Of New York & Byrne Camp Chorale, Eve Queler

Contents and tracklist

Massenet: Le Cid
Work length2:25:40
Overture
Track length9:07
Act I, Scene I (Clinton Ingram, Theodore Hodges, Arnold Voketaitis, Grace Bumbry, The Lords)
Track length4:17
Aimer! Je puis aimer librement, devant tous! (Grace Bumbry, Eleanor Bergquist)
Track length3:05
Laissez le doute dans mou ame,... (Grace Bumbry, Eleanor Bergquist)
Track length3:56
Act I, Scene II (The People, Jake Gardner, Paul Plishka, Grace Bumbry, Eleanor Bergquist, Arnold Voketaitis, Paul Plishka, Jake Gardner, Chorus, The Crowd)
Track length5:48
Jurez-vous d'etre bon chevalier? (Jake Gardner, Placido Domingo, Chorus)
Track length1:55
O noble lame etincelante (Placido Domingo)
Track length1:17
A St. Jacques de Compostelle (Grace Bumbry, Placido Domingo, Jake Gardner, Arnold Voketaitis)
Track length5:45
Ainsi vous l'emportez!... (Paul Plishka, Arnold Voketaitis, The Lords)
Track length3:37
O rage, o desespoir, o rielle... (Paul Plishka, Placido Domingo)
Track length3:34
Rodrigo, as-tu du cueur?... (Paul Plishka, Placido Domingo)
Track length5:41
Act II, Scene I (Placido Domingo)
Track length3:41
A moi, comte, deux mots... (Placido Domingo, Arnold Voketaitis, A Group)
Track length4:56
Quand vous revient l'houneur ravi... (Paul Plishka, Placido Domingo, Grace Bumbry, Chorus)
Track length5:15
Act II, Scene II (Eleanor Bergquist, Monks, Girls, The Croud)
Track length4:33
Castillane
Track length2:54
Aubade
Track length1:08
Catalane
Track length3:12
Navarraise (The Crowd)
Track length3:22
Le Roi! Le Roi! (Grace Bumbry, The Crowd, Jake Gardner, Paul Plishka)
Track length3:38
Voux, Don Dieque, parlez! (Jake Gardner, Paul Plishka, Grace Bumbry, Eleanor Bergquist, Friends)
Track length3:13
O tourment de la voir! (Placido Domingo, Grace Bumbry, Paul Plishka, Jake Gardner, Eleanor Bergquist, Friends, The Crowd, The Chorus, Peter Lightfoot)
Track length8:31
Act III, Scene I
Track length3:46
De cet affreux combat je sors l'amebrisee! (Grace Bumbry)
Track length4:47
Rodrique, toi dans cette demeurse... (Placido Domingo, Grace Bumbry)
Track length7:34
Mourir! tu vas mourir... (Placido Domingo, Grace Bumbry)
Track length6:00
Act III, Scene II (Officers, Soldiers, Placido Domingo)
Track length5:42
Act III, Scene III (Placido Domingo)
Track length1:50
O souverain, o juge, o pere... (Celestial Voices, Placido Domingo, John Adams)
Track length4:02
Act III, Scene IV (The Soldiers, Placido Domingo)
Track length2:24
Act IV, Scene I
Track length1:54
Ainsi mon fils est mort... (Paul Plishka, Eleanor Burgquist, Jake Gardner, Grace Bumbry)
Track length5:02
Act IV, Scene II (The Ladies, The Lords, The Populace)
Track length2:47
O Roi! C'est de ta main que je tiens (Placido Domingo, The Crowd, Jake Gardner, Grace Bumbry)
Track length2:15
Que je reponde... (Jake Gardner, Grace Bumbry, Placido Domingo, Eleanor Burgquist, Paul Plishka, The Chorus, The Others)
Track length5:12

Awards and reviews

October 2009

…essential listening for the indefatigable ardour and sorrow of Domingo in the insanely taxing title, and Grace Bumbry… makes hair-raising work of Chimene's vengeful determination.
4 out of 5 stars
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