Massenet / Braamse / Hulin: Voix Supreme - Melodies of Jules Massenet

Massenet / Braamse / Hulin: Voix Supreme - Melodies of Jules Massenet - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Voix Supreme - Melodies of Jules Massenet

Artist:

Massenet / Braamse / Hulin

Label:

Navona

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

896931003179

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2016-01-08

Number of Discs:

1

Soprano Shudong Braamse presents a selection of Romantic French art songs, illustrating Massenet's arresting motives, graceful vocal lines, and well-placed accompaniments. Exhibiting Massenet's meticulous style, Braamse creates tender and dynamic imagery, intertwining punctuated piano lines with her sensitive voice, which suggests the colors of a clarinet, while turbulent textures denote climactic moments of emotion. Massenet enriches motives and themes with the incorporation of religious scenes and the evocations of remote locales in works such as the austere Le Petit Je´sus and exotic Chanson and a louse. In a critique of the evolution of Massenet's operas, Debussy wrote that "[the composer] surely would have been wiser to go on expressing his genius in delicate colors and whispering melodies and in light airy structures." These melodies provide a glimpse of the supple creativity that Debussy so valued, and the effortless confidence, control, and delicacy Braamse offers Massenet's captivating songs.

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