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Bizet: Carmen & L'arlésienne Suites

10/13/2017, 20 Tracks, 1:09:26

Featuring

  • Pablo González
  • Orquesta Sinfónica de Barcelona y Nacional de Cataluñya
  • Georges Bizet

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Composition History

Bizet's L'Arlésienne was a collaboration in 1872 with writer Alphonse Daudet, attempting to revive the form of melodrama, which combines music and theatre.

Source: Booklet

Critical Reception

Bizet's opera Carmen, though now one of the world's most popular operas, initially received mixed reactions, arousing "equal measures of enthusiasm and hostility" at its 1875 premiere.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

The orchestral suites from Bizet's opera Carmen were arranged by his friend Ernest Guiraud after the composer's death.

Source: Booklet

Critical Reception

The theatrical performance of L'Arlésienne was unsuccessful, partly because the audience expected a straight play and some found the music too "Wagnerian."

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Bizet won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1857, an award for young composers, painters, and writers that allowed him to study in Rome.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

The Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1944, has made over 100 recordings and performed in major concert halls like New York's Carnegie Hall and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Georges Bizet, the composer, was born in 1838 to musical parents who encouraged his interest in music by hiding books from him.

Source: Booklet

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