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Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (French: [ʒyl emil fʁedeʁik masnɛ]; 12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty. The two most frequently staged are Manon (1884) and Werther (1892). He also composed oratorios, ballets, orchestral works, incidental music, piano pieces, songs and other music.
While still a schoolboy, Massenet was admitted to France's principal music college, the Paris Conservatoire. There he studied under Ambroise Thomas, whom he greatly admired. After winning the country's top musical prize, the Prix de Rome, in 1863, he composed prolifically in many genres, but quickly became best known for his operas. Between 1867 and his death forty-five years later he wrote more than forty stage works in a wide variety of styles, from opéra-comique to grand-scale depictions of classical myths, romantic comedies, lyric dramas, as well as oratorios, cantatas and ballets. Massenet had a good sense of the theatre and of what would succeed with the Parisian public. Despite some miscalculations, he produced a series of successes that made him the leading composer of opera in France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Actors: Lester Sharpe (actor), Pedro Regas (actor), Mikhail Rasumny (actor), Joe Ploski (actor), Gregg Martell (actor), Leslie Denison (actor), 'Snub' Pollard (actor), Dudley Dickerson (actor), Maurice Marsac (actor), Walter Woolf King (actor), Steven Geray (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), Bert Stevens (actor), Bert Stevens (actor),
Genres: Musical,Jules Massenet Thais Meditation Classic FM M-Tel Radio Symphony Orchestra 13 March 2006 NDK Sofia MAXIM VENGEROV, Violin Conductor: Luciano Di Martino
http://www.katicaillenyi.com Violin: Katica Illenyi (Illényi Katica) Győr Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Istvan Sillo (Silló István) Jules Massenet: Thaïs Méditation
Nigel Kennedy (vln) National Philharmonic Orchestra Richard Bonynge (cond) Decca Records 1984
Everybody knows the famous "Meditation de Thaïs" from Massenet, but this one is my personal favorite of his. The paintings are Claude Monet's.
sound track from broadcasting of Cesky rozhlas there is video - http://www.rozhlas.cz/socr/video/_zprava/massenetova-mari-magdalena-rudolfinum-5-3-2012--1026908
I.Andante moderato. Played by Aldo Ciccolini (piano) and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo conducted by Sylvain Cambreling. A composer known principally for his operas, the Piano Concerto dates from 1902, derived from sketches written in 1863-1865 when Massenet was studying for the Prix de Rome. This is an alternative recording to the one I uploaded some time ago played by Marylene Dosse.
Katja Markotic, mezzosoprano Reinchard Armleder, violoncello Dagmar Hartmann, piano
Tudor Andrei, violin http://www.tudorandreiviolin.com https://www.facebook.com/tudorandreimusic Hemma Tuppy, piano http://www.hemmatuppy.at Samantha Dolores Salamon Nikolas Grasso, camera Stuart Jolley-Socea, editing https://www.stujolley.com Many thanks to Jean Philipp Oliver Viol