Debussy: C'est l'extase - La mer Classical Alpha

Debussy: C'est l'extase - La mer

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AJ 0981

Debussy: C'est l'extase - La mer

Label Catalogue Number:
ALPHA981

Release Date: June 2023
Originally recorded in 2022

Genre:
Classical

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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 rain like 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.

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“… The sound is excellent, and the notes do a good job of handling the musical aspects of this program. The recording, singing, and playing are all first class. This is a must-have for lovers of the music of Claude Debussy.”

Roger Hecht – American Record Guide – January/February 2024

“…The recording is excellent. C’est l’extase is quite delightful and deserves every success.”

Stephen Barber – Musicwebinternational.com – 11 October 2023

“…The interpretation of Franck and the Radio France orchestra is excellent, kaleidoscopic and pictorial, and well-suited to repertoire that is so highly evocative. A successful voyage to France.” *****

Pietro Freiburger – myscena.org – 1 September 2023

Outstanding

Colin Anderson – ColinsColumn.com –30 June 2023

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