Performer: Sandrine Piau
Orchestra: Le Concert de la Loge
Conductor: Julien Chauvin
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Release: 2019
Size: 976 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Saint-Saëns: Extase (Hugo)
02. Saint-Saëns: Papillons
03. Bordes: Promenade matinale
04. Berlioz: Au cimetière (from Les nuits d’été, Op. 7)
05. Massenet: Le poète et le fantôme
06. Pierné, G: Chanson d’Autrefois
07. Dubois, T: Si j’ai parlé… si j’ai aimé
08. Berlioz: Villanelle (from Les nuits d’été, Op. 7)
09. Dubois, T: Promenade à l’étang
10. Vierne, L: Trois mélodies, Op. 11: Beaux papillons blancs
11. Dubois, T: Aux étoiles
12. Guilmant: Ce que dit le silence
13. Dubois, T: Sous le saule
14. Saint-Saëns: Aimons-nous
15. Massenet: Valse très lente
16. Saint-Saëns: L’Enlèvement (V. Hugo)
17. Godard, B: Symphonie gothique, Op. 23: Grave
18. Martini, J P: Plaisir d’amour
Recorded in March 2018 at the Arsenal-Cité musicale de Metz (France)
Sandrine Piau invites us for a stroll through the heart of romantic French melody with the musicians of the Concert de la Loge playing on period instruments. Known at the beginning of her career as a prominent performer of Baroque song, Sandrine Piau admits that she was nourished by 19th and 20th-century French music from an early age, at a time when she dreamed of becoming a harpist. Palazzetto Bru Zane are therefore going back to their roots, co-producing this album with the Alpha Classics label. Most of the tracks on this album are real discoveries, like these exquisite mini-works by Massenet, Pierné, Dubois, Godard or Guilmant. And what a wonderful idea to have also slipped the real gem that is Aux étoiles between these melodies, the short night-time instrumental that Henri Duparc wrote in 1910. Almost blind, the composer had dictated the orchestration to the very young Ernest Ansermet, who created it shortly afterwards, conducting the Montreux Kursaal Orchestra. A departure from the usual piano accompaniment, these melodies take on an additional grace and elegance in their orchestral setting, under the subtle and diaphanous direction of Julien Chauvin.