Performer: Véronique Gens
Orchestra: Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Conductor: Hervé Niquet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA1030
Release: 2024
Size: 0.98 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Dubois: Chansons de Marjolie: No. 3, Celui que j’aime
02. Hahn: Paysage
03. Dubois: Petits rêves d’enfant: No. 1, Andantino
04. Fauré: Clair de Lune, Op. 46 No. 2
05. Dubois: Chansons de Marjolie: No. 7, En paradis
06. Saint-Saëns: La splendeur vide (No. 2 from Mélodies persanes, Op. 26)
07. Massenet: Les Erinnyes: Invocation
08. Chausson: Les morts, Op 17 No 1
09. Tombelle: Rêverie
10. Hahn: Mai
11. Gounod: La Fauvette
12. Massenet: Esclarmonde: Pastorale
13. Dubois: Musiques sur l’eau: No. 6, Blancheurs d’ailes
14. Gounod: Clos ta paupière
15. Fauré: Les roses d’Ispahan Op. 39 No. 4
16. Dubois: Petits reves d’enfants
17. Dubois: Ce qui dure
18. Massenet: Sapho: Solitude
19. Hahn: D’une prison
20. Fauré: Shylock Op. 57: Nocturne
21. Fauré: Mélodies, Op. 4: No. 1, La Chanson du pêcheur
22. Saint-Saëns: Aimons-nous
In this recital, Véronique Gens and Hervé Niquet bring back to life a neglected aspect of France’s Romantic heritage: songs with orchestral accompaniment. Aside from a few pieces by Debussy and Duparc, and Berlioz’s famous Nuits d’été , orchestral mélodies form a virtually forgotten continent. In collaboration with the specialists of the Palazzetto Bru Zane, Alpha now revisits these musical landscapes, taking us from Brittany (Hahn) to Persia, whose beauties Fauré and Saint-Saëns exalt in very different ways. Mélodies by Chausson, Gounod and Dubois and rarely heard instrumental pieces by Massenet, Fauré and Fernand de La Tombelle round out the journey with their musical reveries.