This week’s gem from the Mike Richter collection is all the more precious for its rarity: a performance of Fauré’s Pénélope starring ravishing Régine Crespin.
Fauré: Pénélope
Radio concert performance, May 24, 1956
Pénelope: Régine Crespin
Ulysse: Raoul Jobin
Eurymaque: Robert Massard
Euryclée: Christiane Gayraud
Cléone: Madeleine Cagnard
Melantho: Françoise Ogéas
Alkandre: Geneviève Macaux
Phylo: Nicole Robin
Eumée: André Vessières
Antinoüs: Joseph Peyron
Léodès: Michel Hamel
Ctésipe: Bernard Demigny
Pisandre: Pierre Germain
Désiré-Emile Inghelbrecht, conductor
Les Choeurs de la RTF et l ‘Orchestre National
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