Description
If Massenet is best-known as the champion of French opera, his contribution to the genre of the melodie merits reassessment - as is demonstrated by this programme of exquisitely orchestrated songs, all of which have remained in manuscript form. The Expressions lyriques form the pinnacle of these experiments, blending speech and song. The cycle Chansons des bois d'Amaranthe is also notable for the originality of it's scoring: a quartet of singers in dialogue with an orchestra animated by a voluble piano part.
Tracklist:
- Noël païen
- Larmes maternelles
- Élégie
- Sainte Thérèse prie
- Don César de Bazan~Entracte-Sévillana
- Chansons des Bois d'Amaranthe~I. O bon printemps
- Chansons des Bois d'Amaranthe~II. Oiseau des bois
- Chansons des Bois d'Amaranthe~III. Chères fleurs
- Chansons des Bois d'Amaranthe~IV. O ruisseau
- Chansons des Bois d'Amaranthe~V. Chantez!
- Orphelines
- Première danse
- Rivière
- Avril est amoureux
- Schwanengesang, D. 957~No. 1
- La Mer (Am Meer)
- Chanson pour elle
- Départ
- Expressions Lyriques~I. Dialogue
- Expressions Lyriques~II. Les Nuages
- Expressions Lyriques~IV. Battements d'ailes
- Expressions Lyriques~VII. Nocturne
- Expressions Lyriques~VIII. Mélancolie
- Petit Jésus
- Nuit
UPC: 8055776010243
Label: Bru Zane
Release Date: 2.6.26
Format: CD
