2MBS 'CD of the Week' from 8th of February 2010 5MBS 'CD of the Week' from 7th of February 2010 4MBS 'CD of the Week' from 23rd of February 2010 3MBS 'CD of the Week' from 1st of March 2010 **Le Diamant d'Opéra** (Special Commendation) February 2010 Gramophone 'Editor's Choice' December 2009 Classic FM Magazine 'Editor's Choice' February 2010 A sumptuous recording of French romantic music at its most ecstatic led by the brilliant young French conductor Guillaume Tourniaire featuring tenor Steve Davislim and The Queensland Orchestra.
The four ‘symphonic poems for voice and orchestra’—Psyché Op. 33, Les Djinns Op. 35, Eros Op. 37 and Ballade du désespéré Op. 61—by Vierne are all world-premiere recordings.
Renowned as organist of the Cathédrale de Notre Dame de Paris, the tragedies of Vierne’s personal life are shot through these extraordinary unpublished pieces.
Accompanying Vierne’s Poems on this release is Chausson’s masterpiece of nineteenth-century French mélodie, Poème de l’amour et de la mer, recorded here for the first time by a tenor, the voice for which it was originally written. Steve Davislim follows his successful Melba recordings of Saint-Saëns, Richard Strauss, Britten and Schubert with this important CD.
Track Listing | | Louis Vierne
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| | 1. | Les Djinns Op. 35* |
| 10’43” | | 2. | Eros Op. 37* |
| 12’22” | | 3. | Ballade du désespéré Op. 61* |
| 16'49” | | 4. | Psyché Op. 33* |
| 8’38” | | | Ernest Chausson
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| | | Poème de l’amour et de la mer, Op. 19** |
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| | 5. | La fleur des eaux | | 11’15” | | 6. | Interlude | | 2’33” | | 7. | La mort de l'amour | | 13’49” | | |
| Total Time | 76’32” | | | * world premiere recording | | | | | **world premiere recording with tenor voice | | |
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