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Bizet: L'Arlesienne, incidental music.(Georges Bizet)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
Bizet: L'Arlesienne, incidental music. Michel Plasson, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse. EMI Classics 0946 3 55671 2.
When Georges Bizet wrote his incidental music to Andre Daudet's play L'Arlesienne (The Girl from Arles) in 1872, the public and critics thought it distracted from the rest of the production. The fact is, it was probably better than the drama and upstaged it. Neither the play nor the incidental music has fared well ever since in its original form. But the sly Bizet recognized a good thing when he heard it and extracted two suites of music from his work, which have, of course, have gone on to become classic warhorses that we all have in our collections.
Anyway, in 1982 Michel Plasson recorded the complete incidental music for EMI, pretty much as Bizet first intended it, and EMI have reissued it at budget price. It is a ...
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