Contains:
Les nuits d'été
/ Hector Berlioz
La belle voyageuse
/ Hector Berlioz
La captive
/ Hector Berlioz
Psalm 42
/ Felix Mendelssohn
Infelice, Op. 94
/ Felix Mendelsshon
Alto rhapsody, Op. 53
/ Johannes Brahms
Four songs, Op. 17
/ Johannes Brahms
La sensitiva
/ Ottorino Respighi
Recording information:
Interpr.: Dame Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano. London Symphony Chorus. City of London Sinfonia. Richard Hickox
Footnote:
Includes settings of poems by Théopole Gautier (tracks 1-6 on disc 1), Thomas Gournet after Thomas Moore (disc 1, track 7), Victor Hugo (disc 2, track 8), Roger de Beauvoir (disc 1, track 9), Percy Bysshe Shelley (disc 2, track 7). - Tracks originally released 1990-1991. - Compact discs. - Program notes by Adélaïde de Place, in French, with English and German translations. - Sung in French (Berlioz), Italian (Respighi), or German (Mendelssohn, Brahms)