Scheherazade
MEL BONIS Trois femmes de légende: Salomé, Ophélie et le Songe de Cléopâtre
LILI BOULANGER Psalm 130 ‘Du fond de l'abîme’
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade
KAREL DESEURE conductor
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
MATTHEW HAMILTON Director of Choirs and Singing
Belgian maestro Karel Deseure presents a feast of French talent as Mel Bonis – a favourite of Saint-Saëns – lends her lyrical musical voice to three female figures of historical, mythical and biblical legend. 20th-century pioneer Lili Boulanger also revels in the richness of religious texts, drawing on the pain and yearning in Psalm 130 to create her choral masterpiece. Songs of mourning give way to hymns of praise in a radiant performance of ‘Du fond de l'abîme’ by the Orchestra and Choir. And finally, that famous Persian queen returns in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade.
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LILI BOULANGER Psalm 130 ‘Du fond de l'abîme’
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade
KAREL DESEURE conductor
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
MATTHEW HAMILTON Director of Choirs and Singing
Belgian maestro Karel Deseure presents a feast of French talent as Mel Bonis – a favourite of Saint-Saëns – lends her lyrical musical voice to three female figures of historical, mythical and biblical legend. 20th-century pioneer Lili Boulanger also revels in the richness of religious texts, drawing on the pain and yearning in Psalm 130 to create her choral masterpiece. Songs of mourning give way to hymns of praise in a radiant performance of ‘Du fond de l'abîme’ by the Orchestra and Choir. And finally, that famous Persian queen returns in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade.
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