Description
DESCRIPTION
In the grotesque bell-ringer Quasimodo, Victor Hugo created one of the most vivid characters in classic fiction. Quasimodo’s doomed love for the beautiful gypsy girl Esmerelda is an example of the traditional love theme of beauty and the beast. Yet, set against the massive background of Notre Dame de Paris and interwoven with the sacred and secular life of medieval France, it takes on a larger perspective. The characters come to life: the poet Gringoire, the tormented priest Claude Frollo, the upright, fun-loving captain Phoebus and above all Quasimodo and Esmerelda themselves. It is a tale peppered with humor but fuelled by the anguish which unfolds beneath the bells of the great cathedral of Paris.
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 A Mystery Play Interrupted
2 The Grimacing Match Begins
3 The Dancing Girl
4 Gringoire Among the Beggars
5 Gringoires Wedding Night
6 Sixteen Years Before
7 Quasimodo ? the Bell Ringer
8 The Trial
9 The History of Sister Gudule
10 Quasimodo on the Pillory
11 Phoebus and His Betrothed
12 The Archdeacon Claude Frollo
13 Frollo Eavesdrops
- Disc 2 -
1 Love and Death
2 The Trial of Esmeralda
3 Torture
4 Phoebus Lives
5 Notre Dame ? Sanctuary
6 Frollo Importunes Esmeralda
7 Gringoire Drawn Into the Plot
8 The Underworld Attacks Notre Dame
9 Safety ? or Betrayal?
10 Esmeralda Makes Her Choice
11 Quasimodo Takes His Revenge
12 A Mystery Solved
