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Bru Zane

Bru Zane

Through its recordings – CD-books, thematic box-sets, traditional formats – the Bru Zane Label revives little-known or neglected works belonging to the French musical heritage of the years 1780-1920. The 'French opera', 'Prix de Rome' and 'Portraits' series aim to give a new lease of life not only to the vocal repertoire (opera, operetta, cantata, mélodie) but also to chamber, symphonic and sacred works. The Bru Zane label is an initiative of the Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française.

Further Reading: Bru Zane

Recording of the Week, Christophe Rousset conducts Spontini's La vestale

The first-ever period-instrument recording of Spontini's 1807 opera emphasises the score's debt to the French declamatory tradition, with Marina Rebeka on ravishing form in the title-role and Stanislas de Barbeyrac showing his true heroic colours as the Roman soldier Licinius.

Interview, Christophe Rousset on Lully and Gounod

The French harpsichordist and conductor talks to Katherine about recording Lully's 1677 opera Isis (out now on Aparté) and the original 1859 version of Gounod's Faust, released in September on Bru Zane.

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