Paysage

In this recital, Véronique Gens and Hervé Niquet revive a neglected aspect of the French romantic heritage: Songs with orchestral accompaniment. Apart from a few pieces by Debussy and Duparc and the famous Nuits d'été by Berlioz, the orchestral melodies form an almost forgotten continent. In collaboration with the specialists of the Palazzetto Bru Zane, Alpha revisits these musical landscapes and takes us from Brittany (Hahn) to Persia, whose beauties are celebrated by Fauré and Saint-Saëns in very different ways. Mélodies by Chausson, Gounod and Dubois and rarely heard instrumental pieces by Massenet, Fauré and Fernand de La Tombelle complete the journey with their musical reveries.