François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles - Hector Berlioz: Harold en Italie, Les Nuits d'été (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 305 Mb | Total time: 63:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 902634 | Recorded: 2018
A new aesthetic calls for new forms: such is the challenge the composer set for himself in the two works presented here. In Les Nuits d’été, Berlioz pioneered, well before Mahler and Ravel, a song cycle for voice and orchestra. In Harold in Italy, scored for large orchestra and solo viola, he experimented with the symphonic genre. These period-instrument performances by Les Siècles, led by François-Xavier Roth, with violist Tabea Zimmermann, also feature Stéphane Degout in the vocal cycle, heard here in the composer’s own version for baritone. File under: out of the ordinary.