Orchestre De L’opera Normandie Rouen – Massenet: Songs With Orchestra Vol. 2 [CD]

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:

1. Nol paen
2. Larmes maternelles
3. lgie
4. Sainte Thrse prie
5. Don Csar de Bazan~Entracte-Svillana
6. Chansons des Bois d’Amaranthe~I. O bon printemps
7. Chansons des Bois d’Amaranthe~II. Oiseau des bois
8. Chansons des Bois d’Amaranthe~III. Chres fleurs
9. Chansons des Bois d’Amaranthe~IV. O ruisseau
10. Chansons des Bois d’Amaranthe~V. Chantez!
11. Orphelines
12. Premire danse
13. Rivire
14. Avril est amoureux
15. Schwanengesang, D. 957~No. 1
16. La Mer (Am Meer)
17. Chanson pour elle
18. Dpart
19. Expressions Lyriques~I. Dialogue
20. Expressions Lyriques~II. Les Nuages
21. Expressions Lyriques~IV. Battements d’ailes
22. Expressions Lyriques~VII. Nocturne
23. Expressions Lyriques~VIII. Mlancolie
24. Petit Jsus
25. Nuit

UPC: 8055776010243
Label: Bru Zane
Release Date: 2.6.26
Format: CD