Poemes - Renee Fleming, Alan Gilbert, Seiji Ozawa (2012)
Poemes - Renee Fleming, Alan Gilbert, Seiji Ozawa (2012)
EAC Rip | Flac (Tracks + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 312 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog Number: 001654302
EAC Rip | Flac (Tracks + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 312 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog Number: 001654302
As the sensual centrepiece of an album of 20th century French vocal masterpieces, Renée Fleming makes her first-ever recording of Ravel’s ravishing Shéhérazade.
Complementing Shéhérazade is Olivier Messiaen’s collection of love songs to his young wife, the Poèmes pour Mi – a tour de force of voluptuous vocalism.
A trio of major works is completed by one written for Renée Fleming by the doyen of French composers, Henri Dutilleux – his dramatic Le Temps l’horloge.
The album is completed by two earlier songs by Dutilleux, specially-orchestrated for this album and recorded in the presence of the composer.
Composer: Maurice Ravel, Olivier Messiaen, Henri Dutilleux
Performer: Renée Fleming
Conductor: Alan Gilbert, Seiji Ozawa
Orchestra/Ensemble: French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Reviews : A good friend of mine sent me Susanna Phillips’s new recital of French songs by Debussy, Fauré, and this same Messiaen cycle, on Bridge 9356. Since it was a recent CD, I was tempted to review it separately, but to be honest, I found Phillips to be good but not great. Part of it is her rather indifferent pianist, Myra Huang, who doesn’t sound as if she has a clue what the songs of Fauré or Debussy are about, but even in the Messiaen cycle—which is, surprisingly, much better than the older fare—Phillips is just good. She has a nice, bright soprano voice, not really cookie-cutter but not highly distinctive either, yet it is only in Poèmes pour Mi that she seems to come to life.
Putting on Renée Fleming immediately after is like going from a black-and-white, two-dimensional photo to 3-D digital color. Nor is it just that conductor Alan Gilbert does a much better job of accompanying Fleming, though he does. To begin with, Fleming has the immeasurably better, richer, and more interesting voice; she employs that extraordinary voice in a performance that has both musical accuracy and true emotional depth; and, moreover, Fleming seems to have internalized Messiaen’s songs to the point where she doesn’t just know them or understand them, but somehow “sees” what the composer saw in his mind when composing them.
In short, this is an extraordinary feat, but it is not—as it is in the Phillips recital—an isolated high point. Her performances of the Dutilleux material (Le Temps l’Horlage with Ozawa is the premiere performance) and the Ravel Shéhérazade retain the magical spell of the Messiaen. I saw Fleming, on TV, perform the Ravel cycle roughly a decade ago with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Andrew Davis. At that time, Fleming could blow hot or cold interpretively, and I knew that it would take a great conductor—someone of Davis’s high abilities—to draw a great performance out of her. He did so. Yet this studio recording directed by Alan Gilbert is, if I may be so immodest to say so, not only greater but perhaps the greatest recording of this orchestral song cycle ever put on disc. True, the Fleming voice was younger and fresher a decade ago, but just listen to the extraordinary range of colors she employs in this cycle. It is, in some ways, a slightly darker range of hues, ochres and sepias compared to the blues and silvers of yore, but they are used with the skill of a master painter. Never in my life have I heard a performance so affecting, so rich, so artistically done down to the last demisemiquaver.
This is, quite simply, an extraordinary disc. I’ll go further: This is desert-island material.
Tracklisting:
1. Shéhérazade by Maurice Ravel
Performer: Renée Fleming (Soprano)
Conductor: Alan Gilbert
Orchestra/Ensemble: French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1903; France
2. Poèmes pour Mi by Olivier Messiaen
Performer: Renée Fleming (Soprano)
Conductor: Alan Gilbert
Orchestra/Ensemble: French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1936; France
3. Sonnets (2) de Jean Cassou: J'ai rêvé que je vous portais entre mes bras by Henri Dutilleux
Performer: Renée Fleming (Soprano)
Conductor: Alan Gilbert
Orchestra/Ensemble: French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1954; France
4. Sonnets (2) de Jean Cassou: Il n'y avait que des troncs déclinés by Henri Dutilleux
Performer: Renée Fleming (Soprano)
Conductor: Alan Gilbert
Orchestra/Ensemble: French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1954; France
5. Le temps l'horloge by Henri Dutilleux
Performer: Renée Fleming (Soprano)
Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Orchestra/Ensemble: French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
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