Florian Sempey: Ferrum Splendidum - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Ferrum Splendidum
Artist: Florian Sempey
Label: Alpha
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 3701624511046
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2024-11-29
Number of Discs: 1

Following his Rossini recital (Alpha 791), Florian Sempey shares another of his passions: his enthusiasm for the world of knights and medieval narrative. For him, "a mysterious force emanates from castles and other antique buildings; their ancient stones have always fascinated me." Ferrum Splendidum (the Latin for 'Resplendent Metal') recalls the singer's ancestors, who were blacksmiths in the Perigord region. Though not following in that family tradition, Sempey concentrated instead on forging and moulding the metal of his brilliant baritone voice. Now a much sought-after opera soloist at the height of his art, he has devised a programme ranging widely through different heroic characters and operas, including Gretry's Richard the Lionheart, Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas, Meyerbeer's Le Pardon de Ploermel, as well as Tchaikovsky's opera The Enchantress, Wagner's Tannhauser, extracts from Carl Orff's famous neo-medieval cantata Carmina Burana, and even the premiere recording of a piece by Romain Dumas, Le Chevalier d'eon, composed in 2019. Once again Florian teams up with the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine and it's young maestro Victor Jacob, who was named a 'Revelation' in the conductor category at the 2023 Victoires de la musique awards.

Tracks:
1.1 Richard Cœur de Lion~Ô Richard! Ô mon roi
1.2 Lucia di Lammermoor~Quel air sombre / D'un amour qui me brave
1.3 Lucia di Lammermoor~À moi viens, ouvre tes ailes
1.4 Carmina Burana~In Taberna: Estuans interius
1.5 belle au Bois Dormant, Op. 66~Finale de l'acte I
1.6 Carmina Burana~In Taberna: Ego sum abbas
1.7 Carmina Burana~In Taberna: In taberna quando sumus
1.8 Hamlet~Ô vin, dissipe la tristesse
1.9 Mirifiques Aventures du Chevalier d'Éon~De Bourgogne je suis un fruit
1.10 Fervaal~Prélude de l'acte III
1.11 Roméo et Juliette, CG 9~Mab, la reine des mensonges
1.12 Pardon de Ploërmel~Ô puissante magie
1.13 Tannhäuser, WWV 70~O du mein holder Abendstern
1.14 Belle au Bois Dormant, Op. 66~Entracte et scène no. 10 de l'acte II
1.15 Hamlet~La fatigue alourdit mes pas / Comme une ple fleur
1.16 Enchanteresse, TH 9~Scène finale du Prince
1.17 Lohengrin, WWV 75~Prélude