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Sandrine Piau: Si j’ai aime
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Label: Alpha
Cat No: ALPHA445
Barcode: 3760014194450
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 31st May 2019
With her silvery tone, immaculate sense of line and telling if understated way with words, Piau is very much at home in this repertory. There’s grace and elegance in both Saint-Saëns’s ‘Papillons’ and Dubois’s worldly wise ‘Si j’ai parlé … si j’ai aimé’. Massenet’s ‘Le poète et le fantôme’, with its ambiguous mixture of irony and regret, is beautifully done (the ‘ghost’ that haunts the poet is his memory of past affairs). ‘Au cimetière’, meanwhile, gets what has to be its creepiest performance on disc... outstanding throughout, unearthing subtleties in music that is often quite simply but always effectively scored. It’s a most engaging disc. 
Another gem from Alpha and the Palazzetto Bru Zane centre. With a bell-like, very French-sounding soprano and crystalline diction, Piau revels in a survey of orchestral songs that includes Berlioz’s Au cimetière and Villanelle, from 
