Ernest Chausson - Poème de l'amour et de la mer | Marie Jacquot | WDR Symphony Orchestra

Ernest Chausson's piece "Poème de l'amour et de la mer", sung by Michèle Losier, accompanied by the WDR Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Marie Jacquot. Recorded live at the Kölner Philharmonie on 02.12.2022.
Ernest Chausson - Poème de l'amour et de la mer op. 19A
00:00:00 I. La Fleur des eaux
00:10:33 II. La Mort de l'amour
WDR Symphony Orchestra
Michèle Losier, mezzo-soprano
Marie Jacquot, conductor
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Work Introduction:
In the summer of 1899, the French music world lost one of its finest composers: the only 44-year-old Ernest Chausson. He had lost control of his bicycle and died as a result of the accident. In his "Poème de l'amour et de la mer" for solo voice and orchestra, he paints a sound world in luminous orchestral colors. Composed over the surprisingly long period from 1882 to 1890, Chausson revised his resounding poem again in 1893, the year of its premiere. He divided it into three parts, namely two frame sections, each a good 10 minutes long, with vocals and a nearly 3-minute orchestral interlude in the middle. He compiled the texts from a volume of poems by his friend Maurice Bouchor (1855-1929). It is about the story of a love that is closely connected with the atmosphere at the seaside. Originally, Chausson had intended three subtitles within each of the two frame parts, clearly outlining the stages of the love. Namely for the first: "Foreshadowing - Encounter - Farewell" and for the second "On the Sea - Forgetting - Epilogue".
The mood of the music ranges from dreamy and intimate to upbeat and jubilant. At the beginning, Chausson spreads a tapestry of delicate timbres, turning the mood of the first stanza into music: "The air is filled with the delicate fragrance of lilacs." As the first poem progresses, the glitter of the waves seems to become music, as does the scent of lilacs - and everything merges into a single feeling: love.
The short orchestral interlude sums up in rather pale sounds what becomes a certainty at the end of the first part: As quickly as love blossoms, it is also lost again. The second part of the "Poème de l'amour et de la mer" is entitled "The death of love. Musically, however, the memory of the first encounter germinates first - back when the lilacs were in bloom. The optimism, however, is premature. In the last poem, melancholy over loss prevails: "The time of the lilac and the time of the roses / has died with our love forever."
Text: Otto Hagedorn

[@galinakrivulin6767]

Enjoyed it thoroughly. A very passionate interpretation of Ernest Chausson “ Poeme de L’amour et de la mer” by Michele Lousier with the WDR Symphony Orchestra under the baton of beautiful Marie Jacquot I like very much.i
Thank you for a very detailed introduction to work I read first.

[@lowe7471]

Wow wow wow. Incredible. Beautiful piece and pitch-perfect performance by soloist and orchestra. This is really great, and always great audio/video with this channel as well. Thank you for sharing this.

[@WDRKlassik]

Our pleasure!
We're really happy that you like our performance 🤗

[@LucienMarine]

The Poem of Love and the Sea op. 19 is a composition for one voice (soprano) and orchestra by Ernest Chausson. The Poem of Love and the Sea comprises two large musical frameworks, each consisting of three sections, each based on a different poem. The two scenes are separated by an Interlude where the orchestra alone performs the melancholy and sorrowful melody which connects the various vocal parts. The first picture, The Flower of the Waters, is based on the three poems: « The air is filled with an exquisite scent of lilacs », « And my heart arose on this summer morning », « What a lamentable sound and wild ». The music reflects the marine landscape that sees the birth of love for the beautiful girl, an evanescent figure on the shore. However, there is a foreboding of the end. The instrumental Interlude foreshadows the event of the second scene, The Death of Love. This is based on the poems « Soon the blue and joyful island » as far as the complete work is concerned. Citation Alfred de Musset: I don't know where my path is going, but I walk better when my hand shakes yours. *Lucien*

[@yuehchopin]

gut

[@grgr3074]

La musique française......pas si facile que ça....une diction parfaite.

[@WDRKlassik]

Merci beaucoup!