It was in the wake of Richard Wagner's passing that composers sought most ardently to create an answer to his Ring cycle with a property based on Arthurian legend. Perhaps the best of these efforts was Ernest Chausson's lone opera Le Roi Arthus, presented here by Telarc in a three-disc set featuring baritone Andrew Schroeder as the King, Susan Bullock as Lady Guinevere, and Simon O'Neill as Sir Lancelot, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Leon Botstein. Although this is the fourth recording of Le Roi Arthus, it is the ...
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It was in the wake of Richard Wagner's passing that composers sought most ardently to create an answer to his Ring cycle with a property based on Arthurian legend. Perhaps the best of these efforts was Ernest Chausson's lone opera Le Roi Arthus, presented here by Telarc in a three-disc set featuring baritone Andrew Schroeder as the King, Susan Bullock as Lady Guinevere, and Simon O'Neill as Sir Lancelot, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Leon Botstein. Although this is the fourth recording of Le Roi Arthus, it is the first to be recorded in a studio situation, although it was recorded in connection with a BBC broadcast of the work.One thing Le Roi Arthus definitely is, is BIG. Big singers, big climaxes in the orchestra, and an excellent chorus, the Apollo Voices, that is in your face from the first note assigned. The booklet runs to 75 pages, containing notes by Steve Huebner, acclaimed poet John Ashbery, and conductor Leon Botstein. All proclaim Le Roi Arthus as a masterpiece, albeit for different...
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