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this is the recording i was looking for.
My dad, funnily enough, had the Hadley~Hampson recording of "Au fond du temple saint" I was after last term.
The first minute and a half or so is "C'est toi, qu'enfin je revois", which is mostly the baritone (Hampson) -- lovely, but not who people come to hear, right? But then the duet begins --
Actually they take it a shade slower than I'd have liked, and I wish they'd pronounced the t at the end of "charmant" before "et plus belle" [eta: because, now that i think about it -- i don't know where my mind was, a minute ago -- shouldn't it have been "charmante" anyway? if you pause between each word in "plus charmant et plus belle", okay, you might not have a released 't', even if people might prefer you run the words together. but when you've just said "oui, c'est elle, c'est la déesse", the next thing you say is "plus charmante et plus belle", isn't it?, so the unpronounced 't' is actually wrong. rar. {shakes finger at hadley and hampson and their director}], but you can't have everything. I love this performance because of how well the voices blend -- in the middle of the octave, it's possible not to be sure which of them is singing. And, and, and -- listen to Jerry Hadley at the four-minute mark, "Son voile se soulève". There's no need to get fraught on those high notes, is there? Absolutely not. He's got the note; nobody thinks there's a chance he wasn't going to reach it. But he reaches it so sweetly. [flutter] (He comes back more strongly, but not frantic, at 6:52 on "C'est elle, c'est la déesse", so it's not that he has no bombast at all.)
[hugs recording]
The first minute and a half or so is "C'est toi, qu'enfin je revois", which is mostly the baritone (Hampson) -- lovely, but not who people come to hear, right? But then the duet begins --
Actually they take it a shade slower than I'd have liked, and I wish they'd pronounced the t at the end of "charmant" before "et plus belle" [eta: because, now that i think about it -- i don't know where my mind was, a minute ago -- shouldn't it have been "charmante" anyway? if you pause between each word in "plus charmant et plus belle", okay, you might not have a released 't', even if people might prefer you run the words together. but when you've just said "oui, c'est elle, c'est la déesse", the next thing you say is "plus charmante et plus belle", isn't it?, so the unpronounced 't' is actually wrong. rar. {shakes finger at hadley and hampson and their director}], but you can't have everything. I love this performance because of how well the voices blend -- in the middle of the octave, it's possible not to be sure which of them is singing. And, and, and -- listen to Jerry Hadley at the four-minute mark, "Son voile se soulève". There's no need to get fraught on those high notes, is there? Absolutely not. He's got the note; nobody thinks there's a chance he wasn't going to reach it. But he reaches it so sweetly. [flutter] (He comes back more strongly, but not frantic, at 6:52 on "C'est elle, c'est la déesse", so it's not that he has no bombast at all.)
[hugs recording]
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