Joseph Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne [Hybrid SACD] [Hybrid SACD] [SACD]

~ Joseph Canteloube (Composer), Jean-Claude Casadesus (Conductor), Orchestre National de Lille (Orchestra), V�ronique Gens (Soprano)

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Orchestra: Orchestre National de Lille
Conductor: Jean-Claude Casadesus
Composer: Joseph Canteloube
Audio CD (31 Jan 2005)
Please Note: Requires SACD-compatible hardware
SPARS Code: DDD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Hybrid SACD, SACD
Label: Naxos
ASIN: B0007ACVCS

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 185,202 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars French orchestra as it should sound like, 28 Jul 2009

By	Klingsor (London, UK) - See all my reviews

It looks like Naxos has struck gold with Veronique Gens, a first class baroque specialist and (at least for me initially) a definite selling point of this recording. But after hearing the disc in full many times over, it is the orchestral sound colouring that motivates me more than just singing to come back to this one.

Orchestra first - French orchestras used to be famous for their ability to produce a unique blend of colours, fragility and transparency, while at the same time maintaining firm precision and solid sound. In today's global musical world, where every orchestra sounds more or less the same, Lille's players are like a breath of fresh air and they do full justice to Canteloube's unique writing. It's like a sound representation of Monet's paintings.

I am less impressed with the Gens' singing, after a while I realised that she is not putting as much effort as the orchestra does in exploring the possibilities of shading and expression of these songs. More than half of the 21 songs she sings in exactly the same way, and in just a few brief places she gives a tantalising glimpse of what she can do with her voice (track 16 for example). After a while the whole venture sounded strangely detached, as if she wasn't there with the orchestra. It is still a good performance, but it could have been a fantastic one.

It was a bit tricky to get the right level of playing this disc, given the differences of dynamics of the singer the orchestra. Voice is recorded a bit too close for my taste and it does sound a bit too harsh, while the orchestra is nicely dispersed behind. A bit more blending wouldn't go amiss, especially if you play it loud enough to get all the nuances of the orchestral performance. As usual with Naxos, there is no technical information about the recording, in MC doesn't have much air and space, but again, the orchestra plays great and sounds even better.

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