Orchestre de l'Opéra Normandie Rouen, Pierre Dumoussaud - Massenet: Songs with Orchestra - II (2026) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Noël païen
02. Larmes maternelles
03. Élégie
04. Sainte Thérèse prie
05. Don César de Bazan, Act III: Entracte-Sévillana
06. Chansons des bois d'Amaranthe: I. Ô bon printemps
07. Chansons des bois d'Amaranthe: II. Oiseau des bois
08. Chansons des bois d'Amaranthe: III. Chères fleurs
09. Chansons des bois d'Amaranthe: IV. Ô ruisseau
10. Chansons des bois d'Amaranthe: V. Chantez !
11. Orphelines
12. Première danse
13. La Rivière
14. Avril est amoureux
15. Schwanengesang, D. 957: No. 12, Am Meer (Transcr. for Horn and Orchestra by Jules Massenet)
16. Chanson pour elle
17. Départ
18. Expressions lyriques: No. 1, Dialogue
19. Expressions lyriques: No. 2, Les Nuages
20. Expressions lyriques: No. 4, Battements d’ailes
21. Expressions lyriques: No. 7, Nocturne
22. Expressions lyriques: No. 8, Mélancolie
23. Le Petit Jésus
24. La Nuit



With this second release of more than twenty mélodies for voice and orchestra by Jules Massenet, the Palazzetto Bru Zane concludes the complete recording of his pieces of this type, and continues its defence and illustration of the genre, begun exactly ten years ago. It was on the occasion of a festival devoted to Camille Saint-Saëns, in 2017, that the editorial team of the Centre de musique romantique française unearthed some thirty works by him for this combination, forming a rich and colourful corpus that few musicians or musicologists had previously identified. The song with orchestra – which in France still came down to no more than a few examples by Duparc and more especially Berlioz – took on a new aspect and aroused renewed interest.

Our research then continued with the gradual resurrection of dozens such pieces by Gounod, Hahn, Dubois, Guilmant, Godard, Jaëll, Bonis, Holmès, Thomas, Caplet, Vierne, Fauré and others. And it emerged that Massenet had not been not immune to the appeal of these lyrical miniatures either: more than fifty from his pen still awaited publication and recording. That mission has now been accomplished with the appearance of this disc.

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