Ensemble 1904 - Poldowski Re/imagined (2017) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. L'Heure Exquise
02. Impression Fausse
03. Le Faune
04. Circonspection
05. Fantoches
06. En Sourdine
07. Brume
08. L’Attente
09. Bruxelles
10. Dimanches d’Avril
11. Dansons la Gigue!
12. Andante Languido
13. Colombine
14. Crépuscule du Soir Mystique
15. Cortège
16. Cythère
17. Mandoline
18. Effet de Neige
19. Sur l’Herbe
20. À Clymène
21. A Poor Young Shepherd
22. Spleen
23. Nous Deux

Largely neglected following her death, the music of Poldowski – alias of Irène Régine Wieniawska – is brought back to life in this re-imagining by David Jackson, director of the Paris-based chamber group Ensemble 1904.

Featuring twenty-two settings of poems by the nineteenth-century French poet Paul Verlaine, the ensemble makes its recording debut with this alluring and compelling programme of song. Poldowski’s complete Verlaine settings are united for the first time in vivid arrangements by David Jackson inspired by the composer herself, known to have made chamber versions of her own songs. Included is the world premiere of the recently rediscovered Nous Deux.

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