Debussy: La mer - Britten: 4 Sea Interludes - Mercure: Kaléidoscope Orchestre Métropolitain & Yannick Nézet-Séguin

• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918): La mer, L. 109:
• 1 No. 1, De l'aube à midi sur la mer 09:16
• 2 No. 2, Jeux de vagues 06:46
• 3 No. 3, Dialogue du vent et de la mer 08:24
• Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976): Peter Grimes, 4 Sea Interludes, Op. 33a:
• 4 No. 1, Dawn 03:50
• 5 No. 2, Sunday Morning 03:46
• 6 No. 3, Moonlight 04:57
• 7 No. 4, Storm 04:40
• Pierre Mercure (1927 - 1966):
• 8 Kaléidoscope 10:53
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918):
• 9 Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L. 86 11:16
• Total Runtime 01:03:48

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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 climate combines tragic grandeur with the most cheerful lightness.” La Mer revisits a live concert program performed by the Orchestre Metropolitain during its 2006-2007 season. “What genius Britten shows in his four interludes from the opera Peter Grimes… Nezet-Seguin 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)

Orchestre Metropolitain du Grand-Montreal
Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

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