CD of the Week


Selected tracks from new releases from Universal, Decca, ABC Classics, Deutsche Grammophon, Naxos, Tall Poppies and Melba are featured during Music for a New Day.

TURBULENT HEART

8 – 12 February
TURBULENT HEART
Music of Vierne & Chausson
Steve Davislim, tenor; Guillaume Tourniaire, conductor; The Queensland Orchestra
Melba MR 301 123

Turbulent Heart features the world-premiere recordings of the French romantic composer, Vierne. It presents his four symphonic poems for voice and orchestra, as well as Chausson’s masterpiece of nineteenth-century French mélodie, Poème de l’amour et de la mer, recorded here for the first time in the original for tenor voice. Renowned Australian singer Steve Davislim and The Queensland Orchestra are led by the young French conductor Guillaume Tourniaire.

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