Berlioz: Les Nuits d'été, Op. 7 - Harold en Italie, Op. 16 Michael Spyres, Timothy Ridout, Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg & John Nelson
Album info
Album-Release:
2022
HRA-Release:
18.11.2022
Label: Warner Classics
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Artist: Michael Spyres, Timothy Ridout, Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg & John Nelson
Composer: Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
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- Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869): Les Nuits d’été, Op. 7:
- 1 Berlioz: Les Nuits d’été, Op. 7: No. 1, Villanelle 02:36
- 2 Berlioz: Les Nuits d’été, Op. 7: No. 2, Le spectre de la rose 06:51
- 3 Berlioz: Les Nuits d’été, Op. 7: No. 3, Sur les lagunes 07:03
- 4 Berlioz: Les Nuits d’été, Op. 7: No. 4, Absence 05:18
- 5 Berlioz: Les Nuits d’été, Op. 7: No. 5, Au cimetière 05:51
- 6 Berlioz: Les Nuits d’été, Op. 7: No. 6, L'île inconnue 03:42
- Harold en Italie, Op. 16:
- 7 Berlioz: Harold en Italie, Op. 16: I. Harold aux montagnes. Scènes de mélancolie, de bonheur et de joie 15:45
- 8 Berlioz: Harold en Italie, Op. 16: II. Marche des pèlerins chantant la prière du soir 07:04
- 9 Berlioz: Harold en Italie, Op. 16: III. Sérénade d'un montagnard des Abruzzes à sa maîtresse 06:07
- 10 Berlioz: Harold en Italie, Op. 16: IV. Orgie de brigands. Souvenirs des scènes précédentes 12:17
Info for Berlioz: Les Nuits d'été, Op. 7 - Harold en Italie, Op. 16
Internationally acclaimed “baritenor” Michael Spyres commands parts for high tenor as well as baritone with the same fulminance and nonchalance – in both registers he has “the operatic world at his feet,” Gramophone Magazine raved. For Berlioz’s collection of art songs Les Nuits d’été, the exceptional singer now makes use of his entire range and presents himself for the first time also in the bass; this makes the recording a unique one worldwide. The melancholy love lament appears on the album Berlioz: Les Nuits d’été & Harold en Italie, recorded by the Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg under the direction of John Nelson.
The eighty-year-old American conductor John Nelson is considered one of the most important interpreters of Berlioz’s œuvre. With this new album, he adds two more works to his award-winning Berlioz cycle: in addition to Les Nuits d’été (in the orchestral version from 1856), the symphony for viola Harold en Italie. Berlioz had written it on commission from the devil’s violinist Paganini. Unlike what the latter had ordered, however, Berlioz did not write a virtuoso showpiece; he declared the viola to be a “melancholy dreamer in the sense of Byron’s poetry.” The romantic indulgence is interpreted by “the uncannily talented Timothy Ridout, recently voted among the BBC’s New Generation Artists” (The Times, 2021).
Michael Spyres, tenor
Timothy Ridout, viola
Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg
John Nelson, conductor
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Booklet for Berlioz: Les Nuits d'été, Op. 7 - Harold en Italie, Op. 16