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In a world of "singles," pursued even by classical music labels nowadays, here is a whole album that makes up a single, sublime musical utterance. Reflet is a follow-up, similarly concerned with light effects, to soprano Sandrine Piau's German-language Clair-Obscur of a few years back. The German songs might have been a bigger stretch for Piau than the French material here, but Reflet has possibly an even more sublime coherence. One feels that every note is almost foreordained as the program opens with classic orchestral songs from Berlioz, Henri Duparc, and the less common Charles Koechlin, proceeding into darker, more mysterious realms with Ravel's Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, and ending with the youthful ebullience of Britten's Quatre chansons françaises. An illustration of how carefully calibrated everything is here comes with two Debussy pieces, Clair de lune and "Pour remercier la pluie" (from the Six Épigraphes Antiques), arranged for orchestra from other media. These serve as entr'actes between the sections of Piau's program, and they should by all rights have been annoying: aren't there enough genuine orchestral pieces that could have filled the bill? But just listen. These fit into the patterns that run through the whole album, and they make perfect sense, just like everything else. Piau's voice is delicate, soaring, and richly beautiful; one of the miracles of the current scene is its durability and versatility. Her support from conductor Jean-François Verdier, leading the Victor Hugo Orchestra, is confidently smooth, never intruding on the spell Piau weaves. A magnificent orchestral song recital that made classical best-seller lists in early 2024.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Hector Berlioz, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Sandrine Piau, Soloist, MainArtist - Théophile Gautier, Lyricist - Jean-François Verdier, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestre Victor Hugo, Orchestra, MainArtist - Vincent Mons, SoundEngineer - Laure Casenave, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, SoundEditor
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Henri Duparc, Composer - Sandrine Piau, Soloist, MainArtist - Henri Cazalis, Lyricist - Jean-François Verdier, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestre Victor Hugo, Orchestra, MainArtist - Vincent Mons, SoundEngineer - Laure Casenave, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, SoundEditor
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Henri Duparc, Composer - Sandrine Piau, Soloist, MainArtist - Charles Baudelaire, Lyricist - Jean-François Verdier, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestre Victor Hugo, Orchestra, MainArtist - Vincent Mons, SoundEngineer - Laure Casenave, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, SoundEditor
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Sandrine Piau, Soloist, MainArtist - Charles Koechlin, Composer - Edmond Haraucourt, Lyricist - Jean-François Verdier, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestre Victor Hugo, Orchestra, MainArtist - Vincent Mons, SoundEngineer - Laure Casenave, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, SoundEditor
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Sandrine Piau, Soloist, MainArtist - Charles Koechlin, Composer - Edmond Haraucourt, Lyricist - Jean-François Verdier, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestre Victor Hugo, Orchestra, MainArtist - Vincent Mons, SoundEngineer - Laure Casenave, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, SoundEditor
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Sandrine Piau, Soloist, MainArtist - Charles Koechlin, Composer - Leconte de Lisle, Lyricist - Jean-François Verdier, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestre Victor Hugo, Orchestra, MainArtist - Vincent Mons, SoundEngineer - Laure Casenave, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, SoundEditor
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté
Claude Debussy, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - André Caplet, Arranger - Jean-François Verdier, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestre Victor Hugo, Orchestra, MainArtist - Vincent Mons, SoundEngineer - Laure Casenave, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, SoundEditor
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté
3 Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, M. 64 (Maurice Ravel)
Maurice Ravel, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Stephane Mallarmé, Lyricist - Sandrine Piau, Soloist, MainArtist - Jean-François Verdier, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestre Victor Hugo, Orchestra, MainArtist - Vincent Mons, SoundEngineer - Laure Casenave, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, SoundEditor
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté
Maurice Ravel, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Stephane Mallarmé, Lyricist - Sandrine Piau, Soloist, MainArtist - Jean-François Verdier, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestre Victor Hugo, Orchestra, MainArtist - Vincent Mons, SoundEngineer - Laure Casenave, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, SoundEditor
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté
Maurice Ravel, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Stephane Mallarmé, Lyricist - Sandrine Piau, Soloist, MainArtist - Jean-François Verdier, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestre Victor Hugo, Orchestra, MainArtist - Vincent Mons, SoundEngineer - Laure Casenave, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, SoundEditor
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté
Claude Debussy, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Ernest Ansermet, Arranger - Jean-François Verdier, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestre Victor Hugo, Orchestra, MainArtist - Vincent Mons, SoundEngineer - Laure Casenave, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, SoundEditor
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté
Quatre chansons françaises (Benjamin Britten)
Benjamin Britten, Composer - Sandrine Piau, Soloist, MainArtist - Victor Hugo, Lyricist - Jean-François Verdier, Conductor, MainArtist - Faber Music, MusicPublisher - Orchestre Victor Hugo, Orchestra, MainArtist - Vincent Mons, SoundEngineer - Laure Casenave, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, SoundEditor
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté
Benjamin Britten, Composer - PAUL VERLAINE, Lyricist - Sandrine Piau, Soloist, MainArtist - Jean-François Verdier, Conductor, MainArtist - Faber Music, MusicPublisher - Orchestre Victor Hugo, Orchestra, MainArtist - Vincent Mons, SoundEngineer - Laure Casenave, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, SoundEditor
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté
Benjamin Britten, Composer - Sandrine Piau, Soloist, MainArtist - Victor Hugo, Lyricist - Jean-François Verdier, Conductor, MainArtist - Faber Music, MusicPublisher - Orchestre Victor Hugo, Orchestra, MainArtist - Vincent Mons, SoundEngineer - Laure Casenave, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, SoundEditor
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté
Benjamin Britten, Composer - PAUL VERLAINE, Lyricist - Sandrine Piau, Soloist, MainArtist - Jean-François Verdier, Conductor, MainArtist - Faber Music, MusicPublisher - Orchestre Victor Hugo, Orchestra, MainArtist - Vincent Mons, SoundEngineer - Laure Casenave, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, SoundEditor
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté
Album review
In a world of "singles," pursued even by classical music labels nowadays, here is a whole album that makes up a single, sublime musical utterance. Reflet is a follow-up, similarly concerned with light effects, to soprano Sandrine Piau's German-language Clair-Obscur of a few years back. The German songs might have been a bigger stretch for Piau than the French material here, but Reflet has possibly an even more sublime coherence. One feels that every note is almost foreordained as the program opens with classic orchestral songs from Berlioz, Henri Duparc, and the less common Charles Koechlin, proceeding into darker, more mysterious realms with Ravel's Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, and ending with the youthful ebullience of Britten's Quatre chansons françaises. An illustration of how carefully calibrated everything is here comes with two Debussy pieces, Clair de lune and "Pour remercier la pluie" (from the Six Épigraphes Antiques), arranged for orchestra from other media. These serve as entr'actes between the sections of Piau's program, and they should by all rights have been annoying: aren't there enough genuine orchestral pieces that could have filled the bill? But just listen. These fit into the patterns that run through the whole album, and they make perfect sense, just like everything else. Piau's voice is delicate, soaring, and richly beautiful; one of the miracles of the current scene is its durability and versatility. Her support from conductor Jean-François Verdier, leading the Victor Hugo Orchestra, is confidently smooth, never intruding on the spell Piau weaves. A magnificent orchestral song recital that made classical best-seller lists in early 2024.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 00:56:57
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Sandrine Piau Orchestre Victor Hugo Jean-François Verdier
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Alpha Classics
- Genre: Classical
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté
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