Title: Best of Bizet Artist: G. Bizet Label: Naxos Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 730099667128 Genre: Classical, Opera/Operetta Release Date: 1997-02-04 Number of Discs: 1
This delightful selection from Naxos where, as usual, the playing, conducting and recorded sound cannot be faulted, is topped and tailed by the third and fourth movements of Bizet's 'Symphony in C' that he composed at the age of seventeen. In between are, amongst others, the best known bits of 'Carmen', 'The Pearl Fishers' and the 'L'Arlesienne Suites'. The music on this collection, with it's catchy melodic invention tied to sudden, serendipitous changes in tempo and pitch, harkens back to one of the fathers of French music, Jean-Philippe Rameau.
Tracks: 1.1 Carmen (Habanera / Seguidilla) 1.2 Carmen Suites Nos.1 ; 2 1.3 Danse Bohemienne/Jeux D'enfants (Berceuse; Galop) 1.4 L'arlesienne Suites Nos. 1 ; 2 1.5 Les Pecheurs de Perles - Au Fond Du Temple Saint 1.6 Symphony in C (3rd ;4th MVTS.)
