Dans un bois solitaire (French cantatas) / Lesne, Il Seminario Musicale [Import]

Gérard Lesne (Artist), Il Seminario Musicale (Artist), Bruno Cocset (Artist), Richard Myron (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 14, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B000026BJ9
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #742,507 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Music, superb Performance, but...., January 1, 2009

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This review is from: Dans un bois solitaire (French cantatas) / Lesne, Il Seminario Musicale (Audio CD)

... it has been re-released as one of five CDS in the Virgin Classics box "Gerard Lesne: Cantatas", which I have already reviewed.

Still, if you are utterly enamoured of Lesne's singing, you might choose eagerly to buy this single CD and pay more for it than for the whole box of five. That would be admirably beneficent of you, since you can be sure than Lesne gets a bigger royalty from the original than from the re-release.

Of the five composers here, only Clerambault has any reputation even among Baroque-niks, but all five were inspired to produce at least these few elegant, slightly elegaic, quirkily original vocal gems. It's a delight to hear Lesne sing his native French with as much emotional authenticity as any cabaret chanteuse. Lesne, by the way, also sings a kind of cabaret repertoire, his own compositions, part jazz part pop. You can hear him on two CDs: "Mad Lesne" and "Colors". It is, in Lesne's case, the affect that makes the music.