Berlioz: Les Nuits d'?t?
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2004-05-04
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
- Villanelle
- Le spectre de la rose
- Sur les lagunes
- Absence
- Au cimeti?re
- L'?le inconnue
- Pantomine de l'acte 2
- 1. Le r?veil de la mari?e
- 2. L?-bas, vers l'?glise
- 3. Quel galant m'est comparable
- 4. Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques
- 5. Tout gai!
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Free Music Review: David Daniels glows
Hit: 5 Stars
Several years ago, I heard David Daniels sing "Le Spectre de la Rose" at a concert of the San Francisco Symphony. So strong was the spell he wove that it took me five or ten minutes to come back to reality. A newspaper reviewer called it "the performance of the year, and perhaps of the decade." No recording can recapture such a feeling, but this album is a good reminder. The beauty of Daniels' voice, his expressivenes, and his legato continue to grow. Every phrase is shaped with the utmost care. There's an occasional, tiny mispronunciation, probably because the singer is so deeply into the song, but this is insignificant in comparison with the gold in the performance.
Berlioz: Les Nuits d'?t? Poster
Lovers of great singing, rejoice! David Daniels is branching out from the baroque repertoire that made him famous and proving that he can be equally at home anywhere in the literature. He makes these French songs sound as if they had been written for him, though in fact Berlioz intended his cycle to be sung by different voices. Daniels brings out the songs' infinite variety of mood, atmosphere and character with total identification. His vocal range and palette of nuance, color and inflection seem unlimited; he can brighten his voice like a soprano's or darken it like an alto's, as the expression demands, without losing his flawless intonation, legato or breath-control. Berlioz' wonderful, deeply moving settings of love poems by Gautier begin with a sunny, carefree song and end with a joyous, fanciful one, but the other four are dark and mournful, lamenting the absence, loss or death of the beloved with numb or passionate anguish. No. 4, "The Absence," is based on Berlioz' favorite interval of despair, the hollow tritone. By contrast, Ravel's five songs on anonymous texts are bright and spirited, full of wit, humor and fun, and successfully combine a feeling of folk music and folk dance with ironic sophistication. Faur?'s affinity for the poetry of Verlaine inspired some of his finest songs. The three recorded here are charming, lyrical, airy and lilting, with sweeping, surging accompaniments. All three composers were famous for their mastery of instrumentation, and their orchestrations are indeed fabulous: colorful, glittering, evocative of mood and atmosphere. (Manuel Rosenthal, who orchestrated three of Ravel's songs, caught the master's style very well.) The orchestra is excellent; perhaps to showcase the principal players and create variety, there are three instrumental numbers: "Pantomime" from Berlioz' opera "Les Troyens," Ravel's "Pavane une infante de'funte" for solo clarinet and horn, and Faur?'s "Elegy" for solo cello, all played beautifully. --Edith EislerClassical Music CDs
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