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21
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Carmen (Highlights)
1993 · 13 tracks
Carmen (Chór i Orkiestra Filharmonii Narodowej, director: Jerzy Semkow)
1993
L'Arlésienne, Suites Nos. 1 & 2 / Carmen, Suites Nos. 1 & 2 (Philharmonia Cassovia feat. conductor: Alfred Walter)
1992
Ernest Ansermet L'orchestre de la suisse romande
1992
Smetana: The Moldau / Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Bizet: Symphony No. 1
1992
Carmen (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra feat. conductor: Leonard Bernstein, choir: Manhattan Opera Chorus)
1991
Carmen (Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris feat. conductor: Georges Prêtre, soprano: Maria Callas)
1991
Carmen (Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Chorus feat. conductor: Alexander Rahbari)
1990
Les pêcheurs de perles (Chœurs et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse feat. conductor: Michel Plasson)
1989
Carmen (Orchestre National de France feat. conductor: Seiji Ozawa)
1989
L'Arlésienne Suiten Nos. 1 & 2 / Carmen Suite No. 1 (London Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Claudio Abbado)
1988
L'Arlesienne & Carmen Suites (Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal feat. conductor: Charles Dutoit)
1988
Les Pêcheurs De Perles / IVAN IV (Chœurs et Orchestre du Théatre National de l'Opéra Comique feat. Pierre Dervaux)
1988
Carmen (London Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Claudio Abbado)
1987
Carmen (Sir Thomas Beecham)
1987
Georges Bizet: Orchestral Works, Volume 1
1987
L'Arlésienne-Suiten Nos. 1 + 2, Carmen-Suite No. 1
1985
Carmen
1985
L'Arlesienne: Suites Nos. 1 & 2 / Carmen: Suite No. 1 (Berliner Philharmoniker feat. conductor: Herbert von Karajan)
1985
L'œuvre intégrale pour piano seul
1984
Bizet - Le docteur Miracle
1976
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Georges Bizet (Born 25 October 1838 – 3 June 1875), formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory. During a brilliant student career at the Conservatoire de Paris, Bizet won many prizes, including the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1857. He was recognised as an outstanding pianist, though he chose not to capitalise on this skill and rarely performed in public. Returning to Paris after almost three years in Italy, he found that the main Parisian opera theatres preferred the established classical repertoire to the works of newcomers. His keyboard and orchestral compositions were likewise largely ignored; as a result, his career stalled, and he earned his living mainly by arranging and transcribing the music of others. Restless for success, he began many theatrical projects during the 1860s, most of which were abandoned. Neither of the two operas that reached the stage—Les pêcheurs de perles and La jolie fille de Perth—was immediately successful.
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After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, in which Bizet served in the National Guard, he had little success with his one-act opera Djamileh, though an orchestral suite derived from his incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play L'Arlésienne was instantly popular. The production of Bizet's final opera Carmen was delayed through fears that its themes of betrayal and murder would offend audiences. After its premiere on 3 March 1875, Bizet was convinced that the work was a failure; he died of a heart attack three months later, unaware that it would prove a spectacular and enduring success. Bizet's marriage to Geneviève Halévy was intermittently happy and produced one son. After his death, his work, apart from Carmen, was generally neglected. Manuscripts were given away or lost, and published versions of his works were frequently revised and adapted by other hands. He founded no school and had no obvious disciples or successors. After years of neglect, his works began to be performed more frequently in the 20th century. Later commentators have acclaimed him as a composer of brilliance and originality whose premature death was a significant loss to French musical theatre.
Georges Bizet in brief
- How many Georges Bizet releases are on Riffiter?
- 21 releases are catalogued, spanning 1976 to 1993.
- What is the most recent Georges Bizet release on Riffiter?
- Carmen (Highlights), released in 1993.