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In this recital, Véronique Gens and Hervé Niquet bring back to life a neglected aspect of France's Romantic heritage songs with orchestral accompaniment. Aside from a few pieces by Debussy and Duparc, and Berlioz's famous Nuits d'été, orchestral mélodies form a virtually forgotten continent. In collaboration with the specialists of the Palazzetto Bru Zane, Alpha now revisits these musical landscapes, taking us from Brittany (Hahn) to Persia, whose beauties Fauré and Saint-Saëns exalt in very different ways. Mélodies by Chausson, Gounod and Dubois and rarely heard instrumental pieces by Massenet, Fauré and Fernand de La Tombelle round out the journey with their musical reveries. Album Tracks 1. Chansons de Marjolie~Celui que j'aime 2. Paysage 3. Petits rêves d'enfant~Andantino 4. Clair de lune (from Inch2 MélodiesInch, Op. 46) 5. Chansons de Marjolie~En paradis 6. Mélodies persanes, Op. 26~La Splendeur vide 7. Érinnyes~Invocation 8. Chansons de Miarka, Op. 17~Les Morts 9. Rêverie 10. Mai 11. Fauvette 12. Esclarmonde~Pastorale 13. Musiques sur l'eau~Blancheurs d'ailes 14. Clos ta paupière 15. Roses d'Ispahan (from Inch4 MélodiesInch, Op. 39) 16. Petits rêves d'enfant~Andantino grazioso 17. Ce qui dure 18. Sapho~Solitude 19. D'une prison 20. Shylock, suite, Op. 57~Nocturne 21. Chanson du pêcheur (from Inch2 MélodiesInch, Op. 4) 22. Aimons-nous
