Renée Fleming: Poemes
Label: DECCA Catalog: 4783500 Format: CD Renée Fleming (soprano) Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Alan Gilbert;Dutilleux: Le Temps l’horloge World premiere recording Orchestre National de France, Seiji Ozawa Sonnets (2) by Jean Cassou Messiaen: Poèmes pour Mi, books 1 & 2 (complete) Ravel: Shéhérazade As the sensual centrepiece of an album of 20th century French vocal masterpieces, Renée Fleming makes her first-ever recording of Ravel’s ravishing Shéhérazade. Complementing Shéhérazade is Olivier Messiaen’s collection of love songs to his young wife, the Poèmes pour Mi – a tour de force of voluptuous vocalism. A trio of major works is completed by one written for Renée Fleming by the doyen of French composers, Henri Dutilleux – his dramatic Le Temps l’horloge. The album is completed by two earlier songs by Dutilleux, specially-orchestrated for this album and recorded in the presence of the composer. “In Shéhérazade , she revealed how marvelously her voice is maturing . . . Fleming seemed to lose both pretense and herself in Ravel’s erotic never-never land” (Los Angeles Times) Price: $16.98 |