Fete

Ernest Chausson - Symphony in B-Flat Major, Soir de fete, The Tempest
L'Orchestre Symphonique De La RTBF / José Serebrier
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 269 MB | Full Artwork: 42 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Chandos # CHAN 8369 | Country/Year: UK 1985
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

Chausson (1855 – 1899) was a French romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish. (…) Chausson's work is deeply individual, but it does reflect some technical influences of both Wagner and his other musical hero Franck. Stylistic traces of Massenet and even Brahms can be detected sometimes. In general, Chausson's compositional idiom bridges the gap between the ripe Romanticism of Massenet and Franck and the more introverted Impressionism of Debussy…

Fête Galante, a 1999 release featuring soprano Karina Gauvin and pianist Marc-André Hamelin, won numerous awards, and the outstanding performances on this 2011 reissue confirm how well-deserved those honors were. Gauvin has an exceptional voice – clarion-bright, warm, confident, and agile, with a variegated palette of colors – and her effortlessly incisive interpretive skills give depth and life to everything she sings. The distinctiveness and character she brings to these songs show a terrific grasp of the genre of the mélodie, from the late 19th century songs by Fauré and the young Debussy to the mid-20th works by Poulenc, Honegger, and Émile Vuillermoz.

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