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Philippe Boesmans | Reigen

by Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie

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Prelude - Scene I 07:11
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2.
Scene II 09:42
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3.
Scene III 14:43
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4.
Scene IV 16:32
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5.
Scene V 19:36
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6.
Scene VI, Part I 08:28
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Scene VI, Part II 06:56
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8.
Scene VII 14:23
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9.
Scene VIII 18:53
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10.
Scene IX 20:08
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11.
Scene X 15:14
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Whereas Philippe Boesmans more or less disowned his first opera, La Passion de Gilles (1983), a relic of a style in which he no longer completely recognised himself, Reigen (1993) was, on the contrary, the first of his great operas. This adaptation of the play of the same name by Arthur Schnitzler marked the beginning of an intense collaboration with the stage producer and librettist Luc Bondy, and it was also Boesmans? first big operatic success, as Le Monde featured it on page one, with the words of Anne Rey: ?Reigen is perhaps the most successful opera of the past seventy years?. In it Boesmans emphasises one of the basic tenets of his creative philosophy, that is to say, in the domain of opera musical expression cannot allow itself the luxury of being abstract. Audacious and anachronistic, for the time, Boesmans? score calls upon the accepted heritage of operatic history, unashamedly employing certain codes, lines of pure cantabile, some nods in the direction of different composers, in short, elements that ? set in their context ? could be taxed with frivolity. The recent evolution of music proves that Boesmans had taken a path of innovative modernity, one that embraces the past instead of spitting in its face, and this without lapsing into forms of shameless facility. In this sense, Boesmans managed to make contemporary opera much more accessible to a broad, demanding public, and it is probably for this reason that Reigen even today has been very frequently revived. Through this digital re-release, it was important for us to offer this work to the discographic patrimony by taking advantage of the worldwide diffusion offered by legal downloading sites.

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released January 29, 2011

Deborah Raymond
Mark Curtis
Elzbieta Ardam
Roberto Sacca
Solveig Kringelborn
Franz-Ferdinand Nentwig
Randi Stene
Ronald Hamilton
Françoise Pollet
Dale Duesing

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