Saint-Saens: Melodies avec orchestre / Poschner

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Alpha
Release Date
February 24, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SAINT-SAENS, CAMILLE
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana
    • PERFORMER
      Beuron, Christoyannis, Poschner
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 24, 2017
    • UPC
      3760014192739
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA273
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Angélus

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

      Performer: Yann Beuron

      Conductor: Markus Poschner

    2. L'attente

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

      Performer: Yann Beuron

      Conductor: Markus Poschner

    3. Rêverie

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

      Performer: Yann Beuron

      Conductor: Markus Poschner

    4. Mélodies persanes, Op. 26: No. 1. La brise (version for voice and orchestra)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

      Performer: Tassis Christoyannis

      Conductor: Markus Poschner

    5. Extase (version for voice and orchestra)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

      Performer: Tassis Christoyannis

      Conductor: Markus Poschner

    6. La feuille de peuplier (The Poplar Leaf)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

      Performer: Yann Beuron

      Conductor: Markus Poschner

    7. L'enlèvement

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

      Performer: Yann Beuron

      Conductor: Markus Poschner

    8. Les fées

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

      Performer: Tassis Christoyannis

      Conductor: Markus Poschner

    9. Souvenances (arr. for voice and orchestra)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

      Performer: Yann Beuron

      Conductor: Markus Poschner

    10. Désir d'amour (arr. for voice and orchestra)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

      Performer: Tassis Christoyannis

      Conductor: Markus Poschner

    11. Les cloches de la mer

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

      Performer: Tassis Christoyannis

      Conductor: Markus Poschner

    12. Mélodies persanes, Op. 26: No. 2. La splendeur vide (version for voice and orchestra)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

      Performer: Tassis Christoyannis

      Conductor: Markus Poschner

    13. Le pas d'armes du Roi Jean

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

      Performer: Tassis Christoyannis

      Conductor: Markus Poschner

    14. La cloche

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

      Performer: Yann Beuron

      Conductor: Markus Poschner

    15. Papillons

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

      Performer: Yann Beuron

      Conductor: Markus Poschner

    16. Plainte

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

      Performer: Yann Beuron

      Conductor: Markus Poschner

    17. Aimons-nous

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

      Performer: Yann Beuron

      Conductor: Markus Poschner

    18. Mélodies persanes, Op. 26: No. 5. Au cimetière (version for voice and orchestra)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

      Performer: Tassis Christoyannis

      Conductor: Markus Poschner

    19. Danse macabre (version for voice and orchestra)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

      Performer: Tassis Christoyannis

      Conductor: Markus Poschner


Although the turn of the twentieth century marked the golden age of French song, the genre was generally accompanied on the piano and only rarely orchestrated by its composers. But Camille Saint-Saëns, a great lover of poetry, was also a champion of the orchestrated mélodie and the French coloristic style. He also wanted to counterbalance the overwhelming popularity of operatic arias in concert programmes. An immense admirer of Victor Hugo, Saint-Saëns set many of his poems to music, including L'Enlèvement, Rêverie, and Le Pas d'armes du Roi Jean, regarded as one of his masterpieces. Exoticism and a certain sense of the supernatural run through such songs as Danse macabre, one of the most popular pieces of classical music, but always heard nowadays either in its version for orchestra alone or performed by a singer with piano accompaniment. Of the twenty-five mélodies with orchestra listed in the catalogue of Saint-Saëns, nineteen are recorded here, all of them for the first time! With interpreters of the calibre of Yann Beuron and Tassis Christoyannis, the words are perfectly served here and the composer’s coloristic talents heard from the very first bars. This release of world premiere recordings is a genuine event that enables us to rediscover a whole segment of the history of vocal music, a renaissance made possible by the Fondation Bru Zane.