Chausson / Dubois / Gens- Paysage (CD)
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.
Tracklist:
- Chansons de Marjolie~Celui que j'aime
- Paysage
- Petits rêves d'enfant~Andantino
- Clair de lune (from "2 Mélodies", Op. 46)
- Chansons de Marjolie~En paradis
- Mélodies persanes, Op. 26~La Splendeur vide
- Érinnyes~Invocation
- Chansons de Miarka, Op. 17~Les Morts
- Rêverie
- Mai
- Fauvette
- Esclarmonde~Pastorale
- Musiques sur l'eau~Blancheurs d'ailes
- Clos ta paupière
- Roses d'Ispahan (from "4 Mélodies", Op. 39)
- Petits rêves d'enfant~Andantino grazioso
- Ce qui dure
- Sapho~Solitude
- D'une prison
- Shylock, suite, Op. 57~Nocturne
- Chanson du pêcheur (from "2 Mélodies", Op. 4)
- 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.
Tracklist:
- Chansons de Marjolie~Celui que j'aime
- Paysage
- Petits rêves d'enfant~Andantino
- Clair de lune (from "2 Mélodies", Op. 46)
- Chansons de Marjolie~En paradis
- Mélodies persanes, Op. 26~La Splendeur vide
- Érinnyes~Invocation
- Chansons de Miarka, Op. 17~Les Morts
- Rêverie
- Mai
- Fauvette
- Esclarmonde~Pastorale
- Musiques sur l'eau~Blancheurs d'ailes
- Clos ta paupière
- Roses d'Ispahan (from "4 Mélodies", Op. 39)
- Petits rêves d'enfant~Andantino grazioso
- Ce qui dure
- Sapho~Solitude
- D'une prison
- Shylock, suite, Op. 57~Nocturne
- Chanson du pêcheur (from "2 Mélodies", Op. 4)
- Aimons-nous