Visions / Gens, Niquet, Munich Radio Orchestra

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Label
Alpha
Release Date
June 9, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      FRANCK SAINT-SAENS BIZET
    • PERFORMER
      Gens, Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Niquet
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 09, 2017
    • UPC
      3760014192791
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA279
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Geneviève: Introduction - Recitative - Aria: Seigneur! est-ce bien moi que avez choise?

      Composer: Alfred Bruneau

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    2. Les béatitudes, M. 53: Beatitude No. 8. Bienheureux ceux qui souffrent persecution pour la justice: Moi, du sauveur, je suis la mère

      Composer: César Franck

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    3. Stradella: Recitative - Aria: Ah! … quel songe affreux!

      Composer: Abraham Louis Niedermeyer

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    4. Les Guelfes: Prelude - Aria: Là-bas, vers le palais

      Composer: Benjamin Godard

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    5. Lalla Roukh: Aria: Sous le feuillage sombre

      Composer: Félicien David

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    6. Gismonda: Aria: Dit-elle vrai?

      Composer: Henry Février

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    7. Etienne Marcel: Recitative and Air: Ah! Laissez-moi, ma mère!

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    8. Scene 4: The Assumption: Le dernier sommeil de la Vierge

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    9. Scene 4: The Assumption: Reve infini! Divine extase!

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    10. La magicienne: Recitative - Aria: Ce sentier nous conduit vers le couvent voisin

      Composer: Fromental Halévy

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    11. Clovis et Clotilde: Prière, ô souffle de l'ange!

      Composer: Georges Bizet

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    12. Redemption, M. 52: Aria: Le Flot se lève

      Composer: César Franck

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet



This tremendous, heady disc is provocative stuff; its emotional - at times emotive - impact immeasurably heightened by very careful programming. Gens and Niquet throw themselves into all this with an engrossing mix of abandon and restraint. Her trademark of purity of utterance and smoky tone speaks volumes.

At 56 minutes, the disc is on the short side, but any more would, I suspect, feel like overkill.

It's a spectacular achievement; whatever you do, don't hold back.

– Gramophone