Word: giraudeau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that takes some of the controversy out of this much discussed work. It is so securely played and sung, and so delicately balanced that the music emerges rich and even moving. Stravinsky is also represented by another fine performance, his 1914 opera Le Rossignol with Janine Micheau, and Jean Giraudeau, and forces of Radiodiffusion Française conducted by André Cluytens (Angel). The opening act, written before Stravinsky had emerged from the influence of Debussy, is ecstatic; Soprano Micheau's singing is always that...
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