If Massenet is best-known as the champion of French opera, his contribution to the genre of the mélodie 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 its scoring: a quartet of singers in dialogue with an orchestra animated by a voluble piano part.
Jules Massenet: Songs With Orchestra Vol 2 – Pierre Dumoussaud
Noël païen
Larmes Maternelles
Elégie
Sainte Thérèse prie
Don César de Bazan, Act III: Entracte-Sévillana
Chansons des bois d’Amaranthe
I. Ô bon printemps
II. Oiseau des bois
III. Chères fleurs
IV. Ô ruisseau
V. Chantez !
Orphelines
Première danse
La rivière
Avril est amoureux
Schubert: Schwanengesang, D. 957: No. 12, Am Meer (Transcr. for Horn and Orchestra by Jules Massenet)
Chanson pour elle
Depart
Expressions lyriques
I. Dialogue
II. Les Nuages
IV. Battements d’ailes
VII. Nocturne
VIII. Mélancolie
Le Petit Jésus
La nuit
Hélène Guilmette, Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur, Julien Henric, Thomas Dolié, Bertrand Dubos, Orchestre de l’Opéra Normandie Rouen, Pierre Dumoussaud
20,90€
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