Description
Reynaldo Hahn:L'île du rêve
Artists
Cyrille Dubois (Tenor)Thomas Dolie (Baritone)Hélène Guilmette (Soprano)Ludivine Gombert (Soprano)Anaïk Morel (Mezzo-Soprano)Artavazd Sargsyan (Counter-Tenor)
Chœur du Concert Spirituel (Chorus)
Munich Radio Orchestra (Orchestra)Hervé Niquet (Conductor)
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Deluxe edition in 127-page book Fin de Siècle in pure culture It is hard to believe that Reynaldo Hahn composed L’Île du rêve (The Island of Dreams) at the age of 19, since the piece, which premiered at the Paris Ópéra comique in 1898, already possesses the coloristic talent of Bizet, the passionate outbursts of Massenet and even the prosodic quality of the young Debussy. The “Polynesian Idyll” is about the futureless love between the European officer Loti and the Polynesian Mahénu. With graceful sounds, Hahn conjures up Fin de Siècle in pure culture, which Hervé Niquet translates here into a French opera evening of the finest. |
