Christiane Karg, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra & David Afkham - Parfum (2017) Hi-Res

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Artist: Christiane Karg, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra & David Afkham
Title: Parfum
Year Of Release: 2017
Label: Berlin Classics
Genre: Classical, Vocal, Orchestral, Art Song
Quality: FLAC (tracks, d.booklet) 24bit-48kHz
Total Time: 1:14:29
Total Size: 687 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

01. Christiane Karg, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra & David Afkham – Shéhérazade, M. 41: I. Asie (10:10)
02. Christiane Karg, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra & David Afkham – Shéhérazade, M. 41: II. La flûte enchantée (03:00)
03. Christiane Karg, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra & David Afkham – Shéhérazade, M. 41: III. L'indifférent (03:50)
04. Christiane Karg, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra & David Afkham – Le livre de Baudelaire (Arranged from Debussy's "Poèmes de Baudelaire"): I. Le balcon (08:28)
05. Christiane Karg, Bamberger Sinfoniker & David Afkham – Le livre de Baudelaire (Arranged from Debussy's "Poèmes de Baudelaire"): II. Harmonie de soir (04:19)
06. Christiane Karg, Bamberger Sinfoniker & David Afkham – Le livre de Baudelaire (Arranged from Debussy's "Poèmes de Baudelaire"): III. Le jet d'eau (05:47)
07. Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Christiane Karg & David Afkham – Le livre de Baudelaire (Arranged from Debussy's "Poèmes de Baudelaire"): IV. Recueillement (05:06)
08. Christiane Karg, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra & David Afkham – Quatre chansons françaises: I. Nuits de juin (02:44)
09. Christiane Karg, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra & David Afkham – Quatre chansons françaises: II. Sagesse (02:54)
10. Christiane Karg, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra & David Afkham – Quatre chansons françaises: III. L'enfance (04:35)
11. Christiane Karg, Bamberger Sinfoniker & David Afkham – Quatre chansons françaises: IV. Chanson d'automne (02:32)
12. Christiane Karg, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra & David Afkham – Trois mélodies, Op. 17: No. 3, Épiphanie (07:01)
13. Christiane Karg, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra & David Afkham – L'invitation au voyage (04:33)
14. Christiane Karg, Bamberger Sinfoniker & David Afkham – La vie antérieure (04:17)
15. Christiane Karg, Bamberger Sinfoniker & David Afkham – Phidylé (05:06)

You might gravitate toward French singers in this repertory, but to overlook this release of French Impressionist orchestral songs sung by German soprano Christiane Karg would be a serious error. For one thing, she hits some rather unusual repertory; the Quatre chansons françaises of the teenaged Benjamin Britten are already characteristic, but quite rare, and the big orchestrations of Debussy's Le Livre de Baudelaire by none other than John Adams are also unusual, making a perfect foil for the transcendent Baudelaire settings of Henri Duparc at the end. And the main attractions are Karg's voice and interpretations themselves. Her singing in Ravel's Shéhérazade sets the tone for the whole, mixing just a bit of sultriness into these radiant evocations of the global East. Start sampling right at the beginning, with Karg's riveting reading of Asie (Asia), surely one of the most intense on recordings. Karg moves over the course of the program from dreamy to sensual to, in the Duparc, almost mystically beautiful, and the shades of her approach are followed faithfully by the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra under David Afkham. The sound is distinctive, with BR Klassik opting for the Konzerthalle Bamberg and miking Karg close up, catching her effective occasional use of a low, breathy tone in these sometimes highly sensuous texts. A real joy, and a major step for this artist who has recorded French repertory only occasionally in the past.

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