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The soprano voice of Véronique Gens aged nicely into French Romantic music from the Baroque works in which she specialized for the first part of her career, and by 2024 when this album appeared on classical best-seller lists, she seemed unable to do wrong. Not only is she still in splendid voice, but the album has the feel of a program she pulled together and fully controlled. Not that the role of conductor Hervé Niquet (another Baroque specialist) and the Munich Radio Orchestra is minimized; the orchestra gets several instrumental interludes alone, and they are done with lush grace. Sample the "Solitude" section from Massenet's Sapho, but it is Gens who confidently steps from one piece to another, giving the whole the flavor of a little drama of which the subject remains unknown. There are some familiar composers, such as Fauré, Gounod, and Reynaldo Hahn, one of whose songs lends the album its title. However, Gens also delves into the much less familiar Théodore Dubois, who is in the books as a church composer and as director of the Conservatoire de Paris, but hardly at all for songs. Sample the charming pair of Petits rêves d'enfant ("Little Dreams of a Child"). The Alpha label (working with the neglected-repertory specialists Palazzetto Bru Zane) contributes nicely balanced, transparent sound from a Bayerischer Rundfunk studio, and here, as so often lately, the best advice is to enjoy this golden age of Gens' voice.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist - PAUL VERLAINE, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Veronique Gens, Soloist, MainArtist - Herve Niquet, Conductor, MainArtist - Christiane Voitz, RecordingEngineer - Dagmar Birwe, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Veronica Weber, ExecutiveProducer - Alexandre Dratwicki, ExecutiveProducer, ArtDirector
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2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Palazzetto Bru Zane, BR-Klassik & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS, Composer - Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Veronique Gens, Soloist, MainArtist - Herve Niquet, Conductor, MainArtist - Armand Renaud, Lyricist - Christiane Voitz, RecordingEngineer - Dagmar Birwe, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Veronica Weber, ExecutiveProducer - Alexandre Dratwicki, ExecutiveProducer, ArtDirector
2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Palazzetto Bru Zane, BR-Klassik & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Jules Massenet, Composer - Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Herve Niquet, Conductor, MainArtist - Christiane Voitz, RecordingEngineer - Dagmar Birwe, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Alexandre Vay, MainArtist - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Veronica Weber, ExecutiveProducer - Alexandre Dratwicki, ExecutiveProducer, ArtDirector
2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Palazzetto Bru Zane, BR-Klassik & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
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2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Palazzetto Bru Zane, BR-Klassik & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
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2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Palazzetto Bru Zane, BR-Klassik & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Charles Gounod, Composer - Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Veronique Gens, Soloist, MainArtist - Herve Niquet, Conductor, MainArtist - Christiane Voitz, RecordingEngineer - Dagmar Birwe, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Charles Millevoye, Lyricist - Veronica Weber, ExecutiveProducer - Alexandre Dratwicki, ExecutiveProducer, ArtDirector
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2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Palazzetto Bru Zane, BR-Klassik & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Herve Niquet, Conductor, MainArtist - Christiane Voitz, RecordingEngineer - Dagmar Birwe, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Veronica Weber, ExecutiveProducer - Alexandre Dratwicki, ExecutiveProducer, ArtDirector
2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Palazzetto Bru Zane, BR-Klassik & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Veronique Gens, Soloist, MainArtist - Théophile Gautier, Lyricist - Herve Niquet, Conductor, MainArtist - Christiane Voitz, RecordingEngineer - Dagmar Birwe, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Veronica Weber, ExecutiveProducer - Alexandre Dratwicki, ExecutiveProducer, ArtDirector
2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Palazzetto Bru Zane, BR-Klassik & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS, Composer - Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Veronique Gens, Soloist, MainArtist - Herve Niquet, Conductor, MainArtist - Theodore de Banville, Lyricist - Christiane Voitz, RecordingEngineer - Dagmar Birwe, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Veronica Weber, ExecutiveProducer - Alexandre Dratwicki, ExecutiveProducer, ArtDirector
2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Palazzetto Bru Zane, BR-Klassik & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Album review
The soprano voice of Véronique Gens aged nicely into French Romantic music from the Baroque works in which she specialized for the first part of her career, and by 2024 when this album appeared on classical best-seller lists, she seemed unable to do wrong. Not only is she still in splendid voice, but the album has the feel of a program she pulled together and fully controlled. Not that the role of conductor Hervé Niquet (another Baroque specialist) and the Munich Radio Orchestra is minimized; the orchestra gets several instrumental interludes alone, and they are done with lush grace. Sample the "Solitude" section from Massenet's Sapho, but it is Gens who confidently steps from one piece to another, giving the whole the flavor of a little drama of which the subject remains unknown. There are some familiar composers, such as Fauré, Gounod, and Reynaldo Hahn, one of whose songs lends the album its title. However, Gens also delves into the much less familiar Théodore Dubois, who is in the books as a church composer and as director of the Conservatoire de Paris, but hardly at all for songs. Sample the charming pair of Petits rêves d'enfant ("Little Dreams of a Child"). The Alpha label (working with the neglected-repertory specialists Palazzetto Bru Zane) contributes nicely balanced, transparent sound from a Bayerischer Rundfunk studio, and here, as so often lately, the best advice is to enjoy this golden age of Gens' voice.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 22 track(s)
- Total length: 00:56:10
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Véronique Gens Münchner Rundfunkorchester Hervé Niquet
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Alpha Classics
- Genre: Classical
2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Palazzetto Bru Zane, BR-Klassik & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
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