Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Nicolai Gedda, Helen Donath, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Marga Schiml, Peter Meven, Walter Gampert
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
dir: Rafael Kubelik
Orfeo d'Or (1994) C367942I 2 CD Stereo ADD
(Excellent sound) Live recording, Herkulessaal der Münchner Residenz, 16/17 November 1971
[flac & cue; cover, inlays booklet & disc scans]
This post is to correspond to a member's request, and I hope it meets his expectations.
It seems to be a version not too well known so I couldn't find a proper review and I could not make it by myself since I just bought it and still not listened it enough.
Anyway Pelléas et Mélisande is an opera that I liked since the first time I heard it. That aura of mystery that envelops all the music and singing throughout the opera is for me, fascinating. You feel all the time that what the characters say is just the surface of something deeper and disturbing, that something terrible is about to happen and that the protagonists, like the insects attracted by the light, go to their tragic end without being able to do anything to prevent it. Every time I listen to it, it reminds me of that film by François Truffau, "La femme d'à côté".