Chausson - Poème de l'Amour et de la Mer/Symphonie

The Guardian 100

Gens/Orchestre Nationale de Lille/Bloch (Alpha)
The effortlessly elegant Véronique Gens shows why she is one of the great singers of our time on this transcendent work

Ernest Chausson died in 1899 at the age of just 44, when he lost control of his bicycle while cycling down a hill and crashed into a wall. He had composed about 40 works, most of them vocal, of which a dozen are large-scale, and include one completed opera, Le Roi Arthus.