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Casual buyers and browsers should note that the vocal works on this album, accompanied by orchestra, are not the original works of Debussy. They were made in 2012 by composer Robin Holloway at the request of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. They were performed at that time by Renée Fleming but have not been recorded until now. The settings are unorthodox and never boring, and they will probably strike different listeners in different ways. Holloway reorders the songs, believing that they were not intended as a sequenced set (probably debatable), inserts some of the composer's Verlaine settings in the new ordering, adds transitions between most of them, and tacks on a high-powered epilogue of his own. The end result, perhaps, is Debussy for the 21st century, amped up and intense, with hidden psychological themes and ideas wrung out and brought to the fore by the orchestration. There will be little disagreement, however, about two of the main attractions: soprano Vannina Santoni is a talented newcomer from whom one wants to hear more, and Mikko Franck, heard at the end in La Mer, is an excellent Debussy conductor; his rendition of this well-trodden work is full of detail and entirely absorbing. Santoni has a big voice that stands up to these orchestrations, and Alpha's sound from the Radio France auditorium keeps everything in balance. Nothing if not an intriguing Debussy release.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Claude Debussy, Composer - PAUL VERLAINE, Lyricist - Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra, MainArtist - Robin Holloway, Arranger - Boosey & Hawkes, MusicPublisher - Vannina Santoni, Soloist, MainArtist - Mikko Franck, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Radio France
Claude Debussy, Composer - PAUL VERLAINE, Lyricist - Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra, MainArtist - Robin Holloway, Arranger - Boosey & Hawkes, MusicPublisher - Vannina Santoni, Soloist, MainArtist - Mikko Franck, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Radio France
Claude Debussy, Composer - PAUL VERLAINE, Lyricist - Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra, MainArtist - Robin Holloway, Arranger - Boosey & Hawkes, MusicPublisher - Vannina Santoni, Soloist, MainArtist - Mikko Franck, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Radio France
Claude Debussy, Composer - PAUL VERLAINE, Lyricist - Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra, MainArtist - Robin Holloway, Arranger - Boosey & Hawkes, MusicPublisher - Vannina Santoni, Soloist, MainArtist - Mikko Franck, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Radio France
Claude Debussy, Composer - PAUL VERLAINE, Lyricist - Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra, MainArtist - Robin Holloway, Arranger - Boosey & Hawkes, MusicPublisher - Vannina Santoni, Soloist, MainArtist - Mikko Franck, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Radio France
Claude Debussy, Composer - PAUL VERLAINE, Lyricist - Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra, MainArtist - Robin Holloway, Arranger - Boosey & Hawkes, MusicPublisher - Vannina Santoni, Soloist, MainArtist - Mikko Franck, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Radio France
Claude Debussy, Composer - PAUL VERLAINE, Lyricist - Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra, MainArtist - Robin Holloway, Arranger - Boosey & Hawkes, MusicPublisher - Vannina Santoni, Soloist, MainArtist - Mikko Franck, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Radio France
Claude Debussy, Composer - PAUL VERLAINE, Lyricist - Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra, MainArtist - Robin Holloway, Arranger - Boosey & Hawkes, MusicPublisher - Vannina Santoni, Soloist, MainArtist - Mikko Franck, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Radio France
Claude Debussy, Composer - PAUL VERLAINE, Lyricist - Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra, MainArtist - Robin Holloway, Arranger - Boosey & Hawkes, MusicPublisher - Vannina Santoni, Soloist, MainArtist - Mikko Franck, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Radio France
Claude Debussy, Composer - PAUL VERLAINE, Lyricist - Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra, MainArtist - Robin Holloway, Arranger - Boosey & Hawkes, MusicPublisher - Vannina Santoni, Soloist, MainArtist - Mikko Franck, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Radio France
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra, MainArtist - Robin Holloway, Composer - Boosey & Hawkes, MusicPublisher - Mikko Franck, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Radio France
La Mer, L. 109 (Claude Debussy)
Claude Debussy, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra, MainArtist - Mikko Franck, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Radio France
Claude Debussy, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra, MainArtist - Mikko Franck, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Radio France
Claude Debussy, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra, MainArtist - Mikko Franck, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Radio France
Album review
Casual buyers and browsers should note that the vocal works on this album, accompanied by orchestra, are not the original works of Debussy. They were made in 2012 by composer Robin Holloway at the request of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. They were performed at that time by Renée Fleming but have not been recorded until now. The settings are unorthodox and never boring, and they will probably strike different listeners in different ways. Holloway reorders the songs, believing that they were not intended as a sequenced set (probably debatable), inserts some of the composer's Verlaine settings in the new ordering, adds transitions between most of them, and tacks on a high-powered epilogue of his own. The end result, perhaps, is Debussy for the 21st century, amped up and intense, with hidden psychological themes and ideas wrung out and brought to the fore by the orchestration. There will be little disagreement, however, about two of the main attractions: soprano Vannina Santoni is a talented newcomer from whom one wants to hear more, and Mikko Franck, heard at the end in La Mer, is an excellent Debussy conductor; his rendition of this well-trodden work is full of detail and entirely absorbing. Santoni has a big voice that stands up to these orchestrations, and Alpha's sound from the Radio France auditorium keeps everything in balance. Nothing if not an intriguing Debussy release.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:52:03
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Vannina Santoni Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France Mikko Franck
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Alpha Classics
- Genre: Classical
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Radio France
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