Sandrine Piau – Si j’ai aimé (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Sandrine Piau – Si j’ai aimé (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:23 minutes | 976 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

Sandrine Piau invites us for a stroll through the heart of romantic French melody with the musicians of the Concert de la Loge playing on period instruments. Known at the beginning of her career as a prominent performer of Baroque song, Sandrine Piau admits that she was nourished by 19th and 20th-century French music from an early age, at a time when she dreamed of becoming a harpist. Palazzetto Bru Zane are therefore going back to their roots, co-producing this album with the Alpha Classics label. Most of the tracks on this album are real discoveries, like these exquisite mini-works by Massenet, Pierné, Dubois, Godard or Guilmant. And what a wonderful idea to have also slipped the real gem that is Aux étoiles between these melodies, the short night-time instrumental that Henri Duparc wrote in 1910. Almost blind, the composer had dictated the orchestration to the very young Ernest Ansermet, who created it shortly afterwards, conducting the Montreux Kursaal Orchestra. A departure from the usual piano accompaniment, these melodies take on an additional grace and elegance in their orchestral setting, under the subtle and diaphanous direction of Julien Chauvin.  – François Hudry

Tracklist:
1-01. Sandrine Piau – Extase (03:42)
1-02. Sandrine Piau – Papillons (03:23)
1-03. Sandrine Piau – Promenade matinale (03:29)
1-04. Sandrine Piau – Les Nuits d’été, H. 81: Au cimetière (05:17)
1-05. Sandrine Piau – Le Poète et le Fantôme (03:32)
1-06. Le Concert de la Loge – Album pour mes petits amis, Op. 14: Chanson d’autrefois (01:59)
1-07. Sandrine Piau – Si j’ai parlé… Si j’ai aimé (02:48)
1-08. Sandrine Piau – Les Nuits d’été, H. 81: Villanelle (01:59)
1-09. Sandrine Piau – Musiques sur l’eau: Promenade à l’étang (03:13)
1-10. Sandrine Piau – Trois mélodies, Op. 11: Beaux papillons blancs (01:31)
1-11. Le Concert de la Loge – Aux étoiles (04:44)
1-12. Sandrine Piau – Ce que dit le silence (03:13)
1-13. Sandrine Piau – Sous le saule (02:44)
1-14. Sandrine Piau – Aimons-nous (03:39)
1-15. Le Concert de la Loge – Valse très lente (03:38)
1-16. Sandrine Piau – L’enlèvement (01:53)
1-17. Le Concert de la Loge – Symphonie gothique, Op. 23: Grave (05:44)
1-18. Sandrine Piau – Plaisir d’amour (02:48)

Personnel:
Sandrine Piau, soprano
Le Concert de la Loge
Julien Chauvin, violin, direction

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