page_title: Pelléas et Mélisande (Herbert von Karajan recording)
section_title: Release history
hierarchical_section_title: Pelléas et Mélisande (Herbert von Karajan recording) / Release history
caption_attribution_description: Pelleas and Melisande
context_page_description: Pelléas et Mélisande is a 162-minute studio album of Claude Debussy's opera, performed by Christine Barbaux, José van Dam, Nadine Denize, Ruggero Raimondi, Frederica von Stade, Richard Stilwell and Pascal Thomas with the Chorus of the German Opera Berlin and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Herbert von Karajan. It was released in 1979.
context_section_description: In 1979, the album was released as a triple LP by Angel Records in the USA and by EMI Records elsewhere: the catalogue numbers were SZCX 3885 and SLS 5172 respectively. Both releases included a booklet with notes, texts and transltions. The album was also issued on cassette (catalogue number TC SLS 5172), again with a booklet with notes, texts and translations.
  In 1987, the album was released as a triple CD by Angel Records in the USA and by EMI Records elsewhere: the catalogue numbers were CDCC 49350 and CDS 7 49350 2 respectively. The discs were issued in a slipcase with a 128-page booklet containing a photograph of Debussy, an essay in French by Maurice Tassart, essays on the opera and its leitmotivs  by Felix Aprahamian in English and German and synopses and libretti in all three languages.
  In 1999, the album was reissued by EMI Records on CD (catalogue number CMS 5 67057 2) as part of their series of "Great Recordings of the Century". In 2014, the album was issued on CD by Warner Classics (catalogue number 667232 7).
caption: Pelléas and Mélisande by the fountain in the park, imagined by Edmund Blair Leighton
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