Every time I see and hear Véronique Gens perform, I like her even more than before. This
is the first time I’ve heard her sing anything in her native language; her
presentation of Berlioz's Les Nuite d'ete is just delightful!
Mme. Gens enters the stage
about 14:30 into the video. Click here for texts and translations of
these songs. (The rest of the program
is lovely, too; but, sadly there's no more singing.)
Lionel Bringuier is
a (very) young French conductor who has already served six years as a resident
conductor for the Los Angeles Phiharmonic (once filling in, mid-concert, for the"Dude" to conduct the same Tchaikovsky sixth we hear here), as
well as conducting the New York Phil and a host of European ensembles.
