Été Artique

"Throughout her fifty year career Barbara Hendricks has shown herself to be one of the greatest champions of French song. This has always held a special place in her repertory and in her heart, as have German lieder, Scandinavian and Spanish songs (not to mention jazz and blues); her musical world has no limits. For this new recording made in 2016, the Swedish soprano pays homage both to her singing teacher and mentor, the great American mezzo-soprano Jennie Tourel, and to the creative genius of Hector Berlioz. If the Nuits d’été have long formed part of her repertory, the two cantatas Herminie and Cléopâtre are new."

Mayfair, Londres, été 1911. Lord et lady Rotherfield s'apprêtent à recevoir la haute société londonienne dans leur somptueuse demeure de Berkeley Square, pour le bal des 18 ans de leur fille Victoria. La jeune fille ne veut pas manquer son entrée dans le monde. Elle est en colère, car sa soeur Evangeline a disparu. C'est Julian, le frère aîné, qui la retrouve dans une sordide prison de Bermondsey. …

Ondine is delighted to announce a new release from star soprano Véronique Gens, who performs Herminie and Les Nuits d’été by Hector Berlioz and Shéhérazade by Maurice Ravel with the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire under the baton of their music director John Axelrod.