Composer: Claude Achille Debussy, Robin Holloway
Performer: Vannina Santoni
Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Conductor: Mikko Franck
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA981
Release: 2023
Size: 535 MB
Recovery: +3%
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01. Debussy: C’est l’extase langoureuse (No. 1 from Ariettes Oubliées)
02. Debussy: Il pleure dans mon cœur (No. 2 from Ariettes Oubliées)
03. Debussy: L’ombre des arbres (No. 3 from Ariettes Oubliées)
04. Debussy: Green (No. 5 from Ariettes Oubliées)
05. Debussy: Le Son du cor
06. Debussy: L’échelonnement des haies
07. Debussy: Spleen (No. 6 from Ariettes Oubliées)
08. Debussy: Chevaux de bois (No. 4 from Ariettes Oubliées)
09. Debussy: Mandoline, L. 29
10. Debussy: La mer est plus belle
11. Holloway: C’est l’extase – Ten Settings of Paul Verlaine, Op. 118: Épilogue
Debussy: La Mer
12. I. De l’aube à midi sur la mer
13. II. Jeux de vagues
14. III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer
Debussy’s song cycle Ariettes oublieesof 1888 set six poems from Paul Verlaine’s collection Romances sans paroles, beginning with C’est l’extase and Il pleure dans mon coeur – penetratingly poetic images of love’s ecstasy and rainlike tears of despair. The six Ariettesare the departure point for the arrangement realized in 2012 by British composer Robin Holloway in response to a request from the San Francisco Symphony. Holloway has altered their order while adding a further four Debussy songs, binding the whole work together with brief orchestral links and a feverish epilogue, ‘con moto agitato’. This world first recording is given by French soprano Vannina Santoni, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under the baton of Mikko Franck. The Finnish conductor, a great admirer of Debussy, here also presents the master’s bewitching masterpiece La mer, first heard in Paris in 1905.