Hello,
I am a huge fan of Canteloube, but sadly much of his output seems unrecorded. Everyone knows the Chants d'Auvergne, but I really fell in love with his idiom after hearing an old (1962, I think) recording of his opera Le Mas. This opera is truly wonderful music--the lack of a commercial recording is disgraceful. The writing for woodwinds in Le Mas is superb, and demonstrates a fairly sophisticated sense of orchestration for 1913.
Does anyone here have any of his rarer works, and would be willing to share them on mediafire or rapidshare? I would certainly be grateful. I woud kill to hear his opera Vercingétorix.
For those interested, here is a link to the 1962 recording of Le Mas:
http://rapidshare.com/files/159989830/Canteloube-LeMas-Paris-1962.zip
Note, however, that this is a heavily cut recording, missing some big, colorful choruses in act 2--there was another uncut recording, but I don't have access to it at the moment.
andrew
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