Yann Beuron, Tassis Christoyannis, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Markus Poschner – Saint-Saëns: Mélodies avec orchestre (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Yann Beuron, Tassis Christoyannis, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Markus Poschner – Saint-Saëns: Mélodies avec orchestre (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:02 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

World premiere recording: 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!

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