Renée Fleming: Poemes
- Sensual French Masterpieces
In this CD, Renée Fleming presents her first-ever recording of Ravel’s amazing work, “Shéhérazade”. Also included are two 20th – century French vocal masterpieces.
Complementing Shéhérazade is Olivier Messiaen’s collection of love songs to his young wife, the “Poèmes pour Mi” – a collection of astounding singing. The third composer is Henri Dutilleux with 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.
CD tracks are:
Dutilleux:
- Le Temps l’horloge
Messiaen:
- Poèmes pour Mi, books 1 & 2 (complete)
Ravel:
- Shéhérazade
Performed by Renée Fleming (soprano), with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Alan Gilbert conducting
The Los Angeles Times wrote:
“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”
Here is a video of the Renée Fleming’s next CD, which will be released on February 13, 2012, featuring the sensual 20th century masterpieces by French composers Maurice Ravel, Henri Dutilleux, and Olivier Messiaen
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