Si J'ai Aime / Piau, Chauvin, Le Concert de la Loge

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Alpha
Release Date
May 24, 2019
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Piau, Le Concert De La Loge, Chauvin
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 24, 2019
    • UPC
      3760014194450
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA445
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. Extase (version for voice and orchestra)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Le Concert de la Loge

      Performer: Sandrine Piau, Julien Chauvin

      Conductor: Julien Chauvin

    2. Papillons

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Le Concert de la Loge

      Performer: Sandrine Piau, Julien Chauvin

      Conductor: Julien Chauvin

    3. Promenade matinale

      Composer: Charles Bordes

      Ensemble: Le Concert de la Loge

      Performer: Sandrine Piau, Julien Chauvin

      Conductor: Julien Chauvin

    4. Les nuits d'été, Op. 7: No. 5. Au cimetiere (version for voice and orchestra)

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: Le Concert de la Loge

      Performer: Sandrine Piau, Julien Chauvin

      Conductor: Julien Chauvin

    5. Le poète et le fantôme

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Ensemble: Le Concert de la Loge

      Performer: Sandrine Piau, Julien Chauvin

      Conductor: Julien Chauvin

    6. Album pour mes petits amis, Op. 14: No. 5. Chanson d'autrefois (version for orchestra)

      Composer: Gabriel Pierné

      Ensemble: Le Concert de la Loge

      Performer: Julien Chauvin

      Conductor: Julien Chauvin

    7. Si j'ai parlé … si j'ai aimé

      Composer: Théodore Dubois

      Ensemble: Le Concert de la Loge

      Performer: Sandrine Piau, Julien Chauvin

      Conductor: Julien Chauvin

    8. Les nuits d'été, Op. 7: No. 1. Villanelle (version for voice and orchestra)

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: Le Concert de la Loge

      Performer: Sandrine Piau, Julien Chauvin

      Conductor: Julien Chauvin

    9. Musiques sur l’eau: No. 4. Promenade à l'étang

      Composer: Théodore Dubois

      Ensemble: Le Concert de la Loge

      Performer: Sandrine Piau, Julien Chauvin

      Conductor: Julien Chauvin

    10. 3 Mélodies, Op. 11: No. 1. Beaux papillons blancs

      Composer: Louis Vierne

      Ensemble: Le Concert de la Loge

      Performer: Sandrine Piau, Julien Chauvin

      Conductor: Julien Chauvin

    11. Poeme nocturne: I. Aux etoiles

      Composer: Henri Duparc

      Ensemble: Le Concert de la Loge

      Performer: Julien Chauvin

      Conductor: Julien Chauvin

    12. 12 Motets: Ce que dit silence

      Composer: Alexandre Guilmant

      Ensemble: Le Concert de la Loge

      Performer: Sandrine Piau, Julien Chauvin

      Conductor: Julien Chauvin

    13. Chansons de Marjolie: No. 1. Sous le saule

      Composer: Théodore Dubois

      Ensemble: Le Concert de la Loge

      Performer: Sandrine Piau, Julien Chauvin

      Conductor: Julien Chauvin

    14. Aimons-nous

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Le Concert de la Loge

      Performer: Sandrine Piau, Julien Chauvin

      Conductor: Julien Chauvin

    15. Valse très lente (version for orchestra)

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Ensemble: Le Concert de la Loge

      Performer: Julien Chauvin

      Conductor: Julien Chauvin

    16. L'enlèvement

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Le Concert de la Loge

      Performer: Sandrine Piau, Julien Chauvin

      Conductor: Julien Chauvin

    17. Symphonie gothique, Op. 23: III. Grave ma non troppo lento

      Composer: Benjamin Godard

      Ensemble: Le Concert de la Loge

      Performer: Julien Chauvin

      Conductor: Julien Chauvin

    18. Plaisir d'amour (arr. H. Berlioz for voice and orchestra)

      Composer: Jean-Paul-Égide Martini

      Ensemble: Le Concert de la Loge

      Performer: Sandrine Piau, Julien Chauvin

      Conductor: Julien Chauvin



Sandrine Piau’s first recital for the ALPHA Label, with Susan Manoff, proved an enormous hit (Diapason d’Or of the year, Choc of the year, and Gramophone Editor’s Choice). Her new project is a recital with orchestra celebrating French songs from the period when they moved from the private salon to the concert hall. Planned in partnership with the Palazzetto Bru Zane, this programme evokes anticipation, desire, pleasure, memory, in short all the vagaries of love experienced by a romantic heroine. To verses of the poets Hugo, Lamartine, Gautier, and Verlaine, Sandrine Piau has selected song settings by Saint-Saëns (‘L’attente’, ‘Papillons’), Massenet (‘Extase’, ‘Aimons-nous’), and Vierne, as well as by the rarely-heard Dubois, Guilmant, and Bordes. Julien Chauvin and his period instrument ensemble combine these songs with orchestral pieces (the ‘Pavane de la belle au bois dormant’ from Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite, and Debussy’s ‘Danse profane’ for harp and orchestra). The album also presents excerpts from Nuits d’Été by Berlioz, and ends with the famous classic ‘Plaisir d’amour’ by Martini.

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REVIEW:

With her silvery tone, immaculate sense of line and telling if understated way with words, Piau is very much at home in this repertory. Chauvin and his orchestra are outstanding throughout, unearthing subtleties in music that is often quite simply but always effectively scored. It’s a most engaging disc.

– Gramophone