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Saint-Saëns: Music for the Prix de Rome

Recorded in Antwerp (Koningin Elisabethzaal), Heverlee (Jezuïetenkerk) and Brussels (Flagey) in Feb, March and Oct 2010

Julie Fuchs (soprano), Marina De Liso (mezzo-soprano), Solenn’ Lavanant Linke (mezzo-soprano), Bernard Richter (tenor), Pierre-Yves Pruvot (baritone), Nicolas Courjal (bass), Bart Cypers (French horn) & François Saint-Yves (organ)

Brussels Philharmonic & Flemish Radio Choir, Hervé Niquet

[Le retour de Virginie is] a silly enough story but it allows for romantic solos, sea-music, storm-music and quasi-religious prayers; Saint-Saëns's score has little individuality, but all this... — International Record Review, May 2011 More…

Release Date: 10th Jan 2011
Catalogue No: GCD922210
Label: Glossa
Series: Prix de Rome
Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

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Saint-Saëns: Ivanhoé

Work length29:05

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Marina de Liso (contralto), Pierre-Yves Pruvot (baritone), Bernard Richter (tenor)
Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
Hervé Niquet

Prelude

Track length4:37

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Recitative: D'ou vient que par moment (Rebecca)

Track length1:42

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Priere: Sion, berceau de mon enfance (Rebecca)

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Recitative: Rebecca !… (Rebecca, Bois-Guilbert)

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Air et Recitative: Au mont Carmel en Palestine … (Rebecca, Bois-Guilbert)

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Duo: Juste ciel que j'implore … (Rebecca, Bois-Guilbert)

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Duo: J'ai prie trop longtemps … (Rebecca, Bois-Guilbert)

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Trio: Ivanhoe !… Quoi !… Lui !… (Rebecca, Ivanhoe, Bois-Guilbert)

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Chant et Trio: Oui, malgre mon jeune age … (Rebecca, Ivanhoe, Bois-Guilbert)

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Recitative: A travers les vitraux … (Rebecca)

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Air: Pres du bucher en flamme … (Rebecca)

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Final: Mais que vois-je ?… (Rebecca, Ivanhoe)

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Saint-Saëns: Le Retour de Virginie

Work length28:27

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Nicolas Courjal (bass), Marina de Liso (contralto), Bernard Richter (tenor)
Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
Hervé Niquet

Prelude

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Danse de negres

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Recitative: Virginie !… (Paul)

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Air: Echos de mon deuil solitaire … (Paul)

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Scene et Duo: Mon fils !… Sois heureux … (Marguerite, Paul)

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Recitative et Duo: Mon ame etait partie … (Marguerite, Paul)

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Recitative: Amis, entendez-vous la tempete naissante … (Le Missionnaire)

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Priere: O roi des cieux … (Marguerite, Paul, Le Missionnaire)

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Finale: Entendez-vous ?… (Marguerite, Paul, Le Missionnaire)

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Finale: Mon fils, elle est au ciel … (Marguerite, Paul, Le Missionnaire)

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Saint-Saëns: Ode a Sainte-Cecile

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Flemish Radio Choir, Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
Hervé Niquet

Saint-Saëns: Choeur de Sylphes

Work length5:00

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Julie Fuchs (soprano), Solenn' Lavanant-Linke (mezzo-soprano)
Flemish Radio Choir, Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
Hervé Niquet

Saint-Saëns: Mass, Op. 4

Work length13:14

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Francois Saint-Yves (organ)
Flemish Radio Choir, Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
Hervé Niquet

Credo

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Agnus Dei

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Saint-Saëns: Inviolata in F major

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Francois Saint-Yves (organ)
Flemish Radio Choir
Hervé Niquet

Saint-Saëns: Tantum ergo in E flat major

Work length2:44

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Francois Saint-Yves (organ)
Flemish Radio Choir
Hervé Niquet

Saint-Saëns: Ave Maria in F major

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Francois Saint-Yves (organ)
Flemish Radio Choir
Hervé Niquet

Saint-Saëns: O salutaris in E major

Work length2:12

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Francois Saint-Yves (organ)
Flemish Radio Choir
Hervé Niquet

Saint-Saëns: Deus Abraham

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Francois Saint-Yves (organ)
Flemish Radio Choir
Hervé Niquet

Saint-Saëns: O salutaris in A flat major

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Francois Saint-Yves (organ)
Flemish Radio Choir
Hervé Niquet

Saint-Saëns: Ave Maria

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Francois Saint-Yves (organ)
Flemish Radio Choir
Hervé Niquet

Saint-Saëns: Ave verum corpus

Work length5:15

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Bart Cypers (horn), Francois Saint-Yves (organ)
Flemish Radio Choir
Hervé Niquet

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Camille Saint-Saëns and the Prix de Rome… surely a strange bringing together of ideas, given that the composer never gained that coveted award and consequently never took up residence in the famous Villa Medici? All the same, Saint-Saëns entered the competition on two separate occasions and, peculiarly in the history of the competition, twelve years apart: firstly in 1852 and then in 1864. On the first occasion he was still an adolescent, devoted to worshipping the memory of the great Mendelssohn; behind him, by the time of the second occasion, were already a number of his masterpieces later to be confirmed by posterity – and he had become acquainted with Verdi and had also discovered Wagner. If the music he composed for the competition in 1864 was not deemed worthy of being awarded a prize, perhaps that was due to it being full of a troubling and disquieting sense of modernity: there is clearly nothing that the cantata Ivanhoé need fear in a comparison with Il Trovatore… In the period between the two competitions Saint- Saëns concurrently secured for himself a reputation in church music based on a plentiful collection of magnificent motets; proof that it is possible to be successful in religious academicism and unsuccessful in its lyric counterpart (provided we set aside Samson et Dalila!) Hervé Niquet, the Brussels Philharmonic and Glossa are now presenting the second volume in their survey of music composed for the Prix de Rome with the majority of such pieces being previously unrecorded and definitely demanding to become much better-known.

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May 2011

[Le retour de Virginie is] a silly enough story but it allows for romantic solos, sea-music, storm-music and quasi-religious prayers; Saint-Saëns's score has little individuality, but all this is deftly handled, with a sure flair for vocal and instrumental writing...the performances seem uniformly excellent and the sound quality is first-rate. As with the Debussy set, the artistic result has proved to be so much more than a musicological exercise.

5th January 2012

[Ode] is reminiscent of Berlioz, while the corresponding cantata, Ivanhoé, has strong overtones of both Verdi and Meyerbeer. Niquet conducts his Belgian forces with infectious enthusiasm, and the choral singing is consistently lovely. The real treat, though, is Ivanhoé...It's gung-ho, thrill-a-minute stuff and tremendous fun.

18th February 2011

[Ivanhoé is] a confident, accomplished creation with up-to-the-minute Italian influences...Hervé Niquet usefully fills out the picture of the young Saint-Saëns’s output with an 1852 Choeur de Sylphes, an 1864 Ode, as well as motets and excerpts of a Mass from 1857.

Saint-Saëns: Music for the Prix de Rome

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