Chausson / Gens / Orchestre National De Lille: Poeme de L'amour Et de la Mer / Symphonie 20
Chausson / Gens / Orchestre National De Lille: Poeme de L'amour Et de la Mer / Symphonie 20
Format: CD
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Artist: Chausson / Gens / Orchestre National De Lille
Label: Alpha
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 3760014194412
Genre: Classical
Ernest Chausson is a most unusual figure in French music, positioned at the crossroads where the romanticism of Berlioz and Franck meet the language of Wagner and the symbolism of the young Debussy. His Poème de l'amour et de la mer is a unique score for the period and certainly his greatest work; simultaneously a profane, naturistic cantata, a monologue, and a song cycle, it was composed between 1882 and 1892 to poetry by Maurice Bouchor, a longstanding friend of Chausson. Véronique Gens is recording this cycle for the first time, although she has already issued 'Le temps des lilas' with Susan Manoff at the piano for her album Néère, about which Ernst Van Bek wrote in Classiquenews: 'Chausson's "Le temps des lilas" mesmerises with the nuancing of it's colors, the allusive precision of every sung word: this ecstatic, depressive prayer represents another peak of French post-Wagnerianism. The song uninterruptedly expresses the profound, accursed languor of overcharged spirits. The tact and sense of style that Gens displays, is proof of her remarkably acute understanding of the veiled references.' Clément Taillia, in Forum Opera, spoke of 'all the art of a song that desires to express itself...' Véronique Gens' talent is equally on display in this recording too, with the Orchestre National de Lille - an orchestra she already knows well - under Alexandre Bloch, it's new chief conductor, whose appointment and first concerts and recordings have already caused a sensation. We can confidently predict that these two artists will be collaborating again in the near future... The Symphony in B flat major completes this programme: a summit of French symphonic writing, for some a milestone as important as the Symphony in D of Chausson's teacher César Franck!
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