Dukas, Paul [Composer] > Lille National Orchestra

Berlioz: Les nuits d'été / Casadesus, Maurus

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-03-22

Works: Ernest Chausson: Poème de l'amour et de la mer, Op. 19; Paul Dukas: La Péri, fanfare to the ballet; La Péri, ballet; Hector Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Op. 7, song cycle
Performers: Maurus, Elsa
Conductors: Casadesus, Jean-Claude
Ensemble: Lille National Orchestra

Berlioz's 'Les nuits d'ete', set to the impassioned love poems of Theophile Gautier, was the first ever French song cycle and shows the composer at...continue...