Special offer. Saint-Saëns: La princesse jaune
Mathias Vidal, Judith van Wanroij, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Leo Hussain
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Premiere Recording
Judith van Wanroij is a forthright Lena with a gift for soft singing, though at full voice she sometimes sounds strained. Mathias Vidal as her Japaneseobsessed young man sounds every centimetre...
Special offer. Saint-Saëns: La princesse jaune
Mathias Vidal, Judith van Wanroij, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Leo Hussain
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Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Premiere Recording
Judith van Wanroij is a forthright Lena with a gift for soft singing, though at full voice she sometimes sounds strained. Mathias Vidal as her Japaneseobsessed young man sounds every centimetre...
About
That globetrotting composer Camille Saint-Saëns wrote La Princesse jaune in 1872, exemplifying the current craze for all things Japanese. Kornélis, played by the tenor Mathias Vidal, dreams only of the Land of the Rising Sun. Under the influence of a hallucinogenic potion, he becomes infatuated with Ming, a fantasy princess. His cousin Léna – the soprano Judith van Wanroij – despairs of this passion and does not dare to confess her own feelings to Kornélis, who eventually comes to his senses. The running time of this opera enables us to offer a coupling in the shape of a previously unrecorded version of Saint-Saëns’s six Mélodies persanes, thus extending the guiding thread of a yearning for exotic horizons in another direction. Leo Hussain conducts the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse in both works.
Contents and tracklist
- Philippe Estèphe (soloist), Jérôme Boutillier (soloist), Éléonore Pancrazi (soloist), Artavazd Sargsyan (soloist), Anaïs Constans (soloist), Axelle Fanyo (soloist)
- Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
- Leo Hussain
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Awards and reviews
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International Classical Music Awards2022Nominated - Premiere Recording
November 2021
Judith van Wanroij is a forthright Lena with a gift for soft singing, though at full voice she sometimes sounds strained. Mathias Vidal as her Japaneseobsessed young man sounds every centimetre a French tenor...How odd then that it’s the ‘filler’ on this recording that lingers on the ear, a first-ever recording of Saint-Saëns’s six Mélodies persanes.
May/June 2022
Throughout the opera and the song cycle, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse plays with sensitivity. Leo Hussain’s conducting nicely captures the music’s delicacy and lyricism, though a little more incisiveness would be welcomed. Overall, this is a highly recommended release, another important discovery in Palazzetto Bru Zane’s French Opera Series.
November 2021
Hussain conducts with considerable dramatic flair and great attention to detail, teasing out all the subtleties of Saint-Saëns’s orchestration.
February 2022
Leo Hussain draws wonderful, crisp playing from the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. The Dutch soprano Judith van Wanroij is an excellent Léna, bright-toned and animated, with clear diction...I doubt companies will be queuing up to stage it, but it’s good to hear it done so well on disc.
