Chausson/ Gens/ Orchestre National De Lille - Poeme de L'amour Et de la Mer / Symphonie 20Ernest Chausson is a most unusual figure in French music, positioned at the crossroads where the romanticism of Berlioz and Franck meet the language of Wagner and the symbolism of the young Debussy. His Pome de l'amour et de la mer is a unique score for the period and certainly his greatest work; simultaneously a profane, naturistic cantata, a monologue, and a song cycle, it was composed between 1882 and 1892 to poetry by Maurice Bouchor, a

and this collection of his own recordings is an entertaining showcase for his distinctive talent and style

With this piece

the painter Hans Memling created his "Concert of Angels"

He was one of the first solo guitarist/vocalists in the commercial recording world

They really don't know

" DUSK abounds with wounds

carrying over the undiminished fascination with Ysaÿe's oeuvre

The tact and sense of style that Gens displays

Because someday

including Teddy Wilson

A funny thing happened when Chiyo Sakura worked up the courage to confess her feelings to her high school crush: he thought she was applying for a job as his art assistant

Paterson/ Nashville Opera/ Williamson - Three Way