內容簡介: A new aesthetic calls for new forms: such is the challenge the composer set for himself in the two works presented here. In Les Nuits d'ete, Berlioz pioneered, well before Mahler and Ravel, a song cycle for voice and orchestra. In Harold in Italy, scored for large orchestra and solo viola, he experimented with the symphonic genre. These period-instrument performances by Les Siecles, led by Francois-Xavier Roth, with violist Tabea Zimmermann, also feature Stephane Degout in the vocal cycle, heard here in the composer's own version for baritone. Harold en Italie, Op. 16, H. 68 11. Harold aux montagnes. Scenes de melancolie, de bonheur et de joie. Adagio 15'10 22. Marche de pelerins chantant la priere du soir. Allegretto 7'48 33. Serenade d'un montagnard des Abbruzes a sa maitresse. Allegro assai 5'57 44. Orgie de brigands. Souvenirs des scenes precedentes. Allegro frenetico 11'34 Les Nuits d'ete, Op. 7, H. 81B 51. Villanelle 2'10 62. Le Spectre de la rose 6'36 73. Sur les lagunes, Lamento 5'41 84. Absence 5'42 95. Au cimetiere, Clair de lune 5'37 106. L'Ile inconnue 3'33 |