Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal
La Mer
- Type CD
- Label Atma Classique
- UPC 0722056277525
- Catalog number ACD 22775
- Release date 09 February 2018
About the album
ATMA Classique will reissue its critically acclaimed recording of La Mer: Debussy, Britten, Mercure in stereo format. Recorded in 2007 by Yannick Nezet-Seguin and the Orchestre Métropolitain, La Mer garnered five stars from the French magazine Diapason, which declared, “What is immediately apparent in Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s Debussy is its meticulousness, its almost chamber-music like transparency, and its subtle shading.” Pierre Mercure’s Kaléidoscope was also praised for its “formidably contrasted reading …Under Yannick Nézet- Séguin’s baton, the work’s constantly shifting emotional limate combines tragic grandeur with the most cheerful lightness.”
La Mer revisits a live concert program performed by the Orchestre Métropolitain during its 2006-2007 season. "What genius Britten shows in his four interludes from the opera Peter Grimes. […] Nézet-Séguin recreates the exact context of each scene portrayed, from the depths of the ocean to the sky-shaking tempest. […] The young conductor ends with Debussy’s La Mer, […] a very impressive performance, sometimes lyric, sometimes livid, always detailed." (La Presse) "It was pure delight to hear Pierre Mercure’s Kaléidoscope played with such emotion." (The Gazette)
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11La Mer Trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre De l?aube à midi sur la mer ? Très lent
09:16 -
12La Mer Trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre Jeux de vagues ? Allegro
06:46 -
13La Mer Trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre Dialogue du vent et de la mer ? Animé et tumultueux
08:24 -
14Four Sea Interludes (op. 33 a) Dawn
03:50 -
15Four Sea Interludes (op. 33 a) Sunday Morning
03:46 -
16Four Sea Interludes (op. 33 a) Moonlight
04:57 -
17Four Sea Interludes (op. 33 a) Storm
04:40 -
18Kaléidoscope
10:53 -
19Prélude à l?après-midi d?un faune
11:16