Vannina Santoni, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Mikko Franck – Debussy: C’est l’extase – La mer (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Vannina Santoni, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Mikko Franck – Debussy: C’est l’extase – La mer (2023)
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Debussy’s song cycle Ariettes oubliées of 1888 set six poems from Paul Verlaine’s collection Romances sans paroles, beginning with C’est l’extase and Il pleure dans mon cœur – penetratingly poetic images of love’s ecstasy and rainlike tears of despair. The six Ariettes are the departure point for the arrangement realized in 2012 by British composer Robin Holloway in response to a request from the San Francisco Symphony. Holloway has altered their order while adding a further four Debussy songs, binding the whole work together with brief orchestral links and a feverish epilogue, ‘con moto agitato’. This world first recording is given by French soprano Vannina Santoni, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under the baton of Mikko Franck. The Finnish conductor, a great admirer of Debussy, here also presents the master’s bewitching masterpiece La mer , first heard in Paris in 1905.

Tracklist:
01. Vannina Santoni, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Mikko Franck – Ariettes oubliées, CD 63: No. 1, C’est l’extase langoureuse (Arr. for Soprano and Orchestra by Robin Holloway) (02:37)
02. Vannina Santoni, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Mikko Franck – Ariettes oubliées, CD 63: No. 2, Il pleure dans mon cœur (Arr. for Soprano and Orchestra by Robin Holloway) (02:57)
03. Vannina Santoni, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Mikko Franck – Ariettes oubliées, CD 63: No. 3, L’ombre des arbres (Arr. for Soprano and Orchestra by Robin Holloway) (02:11)
04. Vannina Santoni, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Mikko Franck – Ariettes oubliées, CD 63: No. 5, Aquarelles: I. Green (Arr. for Soprano and Orchestra by Robin Holloway) (02:16)
05. Vannina Santoni, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Mikko Franck – 3 Mélodies de Verlaine, CD 85: No. 2, Le son du cœur s’afflige vers les bois (Arr. for Soprano and Orchestra by Robin Holloway) (02:44)
06. Vannina Santoni, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Mikko Franck – 3 Mélodies de Verlaine, CD 85: No. 3, L’échelonnement des haies (Arr. for Soprano and Orchestra by Robin Holloway) (01:44)
07. Vannina Santoni, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Mikko Franck – Ariettes oubliées, CD 63: No. 5, Aquarelles: II. Spleen (Arr. for Soprano and Orchestra by Robin Holloway) (02:47)
08. Vannina Santoni, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Mikko Franck – Ariettes oubliées, CD 63: No. 4, Paysages belges. Chevaux de bois (Arr. for Soprano and Orchestra by Robin Holloway) (02:53)
09. Vannina Santoni, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Mikko Franck – Mandoline, CD 43 (Arr. for Soprano and Orchestra by Robin Holloway) (01:41)
10. Vannina Santoni, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Mikko Franck – 3 Mélodies de Verlaine, CD 85: No. 1, La mer est plus belle (Arr. for Soprano and Orchestra by Robin Holloway) (03:25)
11. Vannina Santoni, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Mikko Franck – C’est l’extase – Ten Settings of Paul Verlaine, Op. 118: Épilogue (02:32)
12. Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Mikko Franck – La mer, L. 109: I. De l’aube à midi sur la mer (08:50)
13. Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Mikko Franck – La mer, L. 109: II. Jeux de vagues (06:50)
14. Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Mikko Franck – La mer, L. 109: III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer (08:36)

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