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The vocal works of Hector Berlioz are less familiar than his gigantic orchestral pieces, but in the right hands they're delightful. This release by ...Show synopsisThe vocal works of Hector Berlioz are less familiar than his gigantic orchestral pieces, but in the right hands they're delightful. This release by French soprano Véronique Gens, who is at the absolute peak of her powers, has all you could ask. It has the sheer creamy goodness of Gens' voice, made still tastier by her obvious enthusiasm for the likes of Ravel's Asie (Asia) from the Shéhérazade set. It offers a distinction from earlier traversals of the same material: the song cycle Les Nuits d'été (Summer Nights), especially, has been the province of big dramatic sopranos, but Gens' reading is more chamber-sized, and indeed more in line with the medium-sized halls Berlioz would have known in material of this kind. The album has a novel item: the early Berlioz cantata Herminie, written in 1828 as one of his unsuccessful attempts to capture the Prix de Rome. (He finally succeeded with Sardanapale in 1830.) The music of this piece has links to the Symphonie fantastique, and in general it has the...Hide synopsis
Berlioz: Herminie; Les Nuits d'été; Ravel: Shéhérazade – CD
(2012)
by Véronique Gens (soprano), Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, John Axelrod (conductor)
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Description:BRAND NEW. V+ronique Gens, soprano Orchestre National des Pays...BRAND NEW. V+ronique Gens, soprano Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire John Axelrod, conductor Ondine is pleased to announce a new release by famous soprano V+ronique Gens, who performs Herminie and Les Nuits d'+t+ by Hector Berlioz and Sh+h+razade by Maurice Ravel with the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire under the baton of its music director John Axelrod. V+ronique Gens is internationally recognized as one of the greatest sopranos. She has made a big career with baroque repertoire and Mozart, but French repertoire, especially Berlioz and Ravel, are "as natural to her as the air that she breathes". Her French remains a model of immaculate diction, fluid and luminous. Having a very special relationship to Berlioz's Les Nuits d'+t+ and Herminie, V+ronique Gens combines them on this release with Sh+h+razade by Ravel, which conjures up a totally different world. On this CD Herminie is released the first time with V+ronique Gens. The charismatic conductor John Axelrod is music director of the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire since 2009, following the philosophy of being "open to the world" by extraordinarily diverse repertoire choices and innovative programming. Also internationally he is a sought after conductor both for concerts and opera productions. Founded in 1971, the Orchestra National des Pays de la Loire, a "national" orchestra since 1996, is based in two cities, Angers and Nantes. Today about 200 concerts attract yearly 200, 000 listeners, among them more than 10, 000 subscribers. Biographies A prominent Baroque performer in recent years, soprano V+ronique Gens has also become recognized as one of the world's finest Mozart singers. She performed Don Giovanni in Barcelona, Madrid, Glyndebourne, Munich and Vienna, La clemenza di Tito in Dresden and Barcelona, Cos+ fan tutte in Tokyo and Baden-Baden, Cavalli's La Calisto in Munich, Paris and London, Pell+as et M+lisande at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Gluck's Alceste in Aix-en-Provence, La finta giardiniera at the Salzburg Festival, Martin y Soler's Il burbero di buon cuore at the Teatro Real Madrid, Rameau's Castor et Pollux at the De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, Iphig+nie en Aulide at the Th++tre Royal de la Monnaie and in Amsterdam, Iphig+nie en Tauride at the Theater an der Wien, Niobe in London and Luxemburg, La veuve joyeuse in Lyon (available on DVD), Alice in Falstaff at the Baden-Baden Festival and in Nantes, Eva in a new production of Die Meistersinger von N++rnberg at the Liceu in Barcelona and others. Her future projects include Don Giovanni in Vienna, London and Paris, Cos+ fan tutte in Baden-Baden, Iphig+nie en Aulide in Amsterdam, Il burbero di buon cuore in Barcelona, Alceste and Cos+ fan tutte in Vienna, Falstaff in Munich, La clemenza di Tito in Brussels and Vienna, Dialogues des carm+lites at the Th++tre des Champs-Elys+es, Der Freisch++tz at Staatsoper Berlin, Iphig+nie en Tauride at the Theater an der Wien and numerous concerts and recitals. In 2006, V+ronique Gens was nominated "Chevalier" by "L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres", and she has just been appointed "Chevalier" by the renowned "L+gion d'honneur" in January 2011.
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