Symphony Piano Quartet Poemes Concert
Chausson's musical output is not vast and his career was short-lived. His earliest works date from the late 1870s and his last were produced shortly before he was killed as a result of a cycling accident in 1899. A few stage pieces represent his large-scale works, along with the Symphony in B flat (1889-90) - one of the few French symphonies to have gained a small foothold in the repertory - and performed here by one of Decca's famous artistic partnerships: Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony. They provide superb support in one of Chausson's most popular works, the PoŠme for violin and orchestra in which Chantal Juillet is soloist. Chausson's only large-scale work for voice and orchestra is his PoŠme de l'amour et de la mer, a piece which receives an idiomatic and persuasive performance here with baritone Fran‡ois Le Roux.