Composers: Gounod
Compositions: Le Tribut de Zamora
Performers: Judith van Wanroij s, Jennifer Holloway ms, Edgaras Montvidas t, Tassis Christoyannis bar, Münchner Rundfunkorchester/Hervé Niquet
Catalogue Number: Bru Zane BZ1033 (2CD)

The history of music is littered with fine composers who had the misfortune to grow old while maintaining their allegiance to an unchanging musical style. Take Gounod, for example. Despite the success of Mireille (1864) and Roméo et Juliette (1867), there is little stylistically to distinguish them from the composer’s greatest hit, 1859’s Faust. A worse fate would befall the cheerful Cinq-Mars (1877), a victim of...