Reflet / Piau, Verdier, Orchestre Victor Hugo

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Alpha
Release Date
January 12, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Hector Berlioz, Benjamin Britten, Claude Debussy, Henri Duparc, Charles Koechlin, Maurice Ravel
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Orchestre Victor Hugo
    • PERFORMER
      Sandrine Piau, Jean-Francois Verdier
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 12, 2024
    • UPC
      3701624510193
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA1019
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Les nuits d'été, Op. 7, No. 2. Le Spectre de la rose (version for voice and orchestra)

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    2. Chanson triste (version for voice and orchestra)

      Composer: Henri Duparc

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    3. L'Invitation au voyage (version for voice and orchestra)

      Composer: Henri Duparc

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    4. No. 2. Plein eau

      Composer: Charles Koechlin

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    5. No. 4. Aux temps des fées

      Composer: Charles Koechlin

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    6. 3 Melodies, Op. 17: No. 3. Épiphanie

      Composer: Charles Koechlin

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    7. Suite bergamasque: III. Clair de lune (arr. A. Caplet for orchestra)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    8. No. 1. Soupir (Sigh)

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    9. No. 2. Placet futile (Futile Petition)

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    10. No. 3. Surgi de la croupe et du bond (Risen from haunch and spurt)

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    11. 6 Épigraphes antiques: No. 6. Pour remercier la pluie au matin (arr. E. Ansermet for orchestra)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    12. No. 1. Nuits de juin

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    13. No. 2. Sagesse

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    14. No. 3. L'enfance

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    15. No. 4. Chanson d'automne

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier


Clair Obscur (Alpha 727), dedicated to German lieder with orchestra, explored the antagonism between light and shadow. Reflet conjures up the nuances and transparencies of French melodies. There is in reflection the idea of an echo, the shadow of a disquieting double, of a plural, diffracted sparkle… A clash of deceptive mirages, a kaleidoscope of senses and flashes of light, it interweaves in strange parallels the score of our lives, adorned with gold and illusions", writes Sandrine Piau. Berlioz, Gauthier, Britten, Hugo, Verlaine, Baudelaire, Duparc, Koechlin, Ravel, Mallarmé... the encounters between these composers and poets"create in me a firework display of colours and shimmers", concludes the French soprano, who is making her 14th recording for Alpha Classics.

REVIEW:

Here is a whole album that makes up a single, sublime musical utterance. One feels that every note is almost foreordained as the program opens with classic orchestral songs from Berlioz, Henri Duparc, and the less common Charles Koechlin, proceeding into darker, more mysterious realms with Ravel’s Three Mallarmé Songs, and ending with the youthful ebullience of Britten’s Quatre chansons françaises. Piau’s voice is delicate, soaring, and richly beautiful; one of the miracles of the current scene is its durability and versatility. Her support from conductor Jean-François Verdier, leading the Victor Hugo Orchestra, is confidently smooth, never intruding on the spell Piau weaves.

 

-- AllMusic.com (James Manheim)