Florian Sempey - Ferrum Splendidum (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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.

TRACKLIST

1. Florian Sempey, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine & Victor Jacob - Grétry: Richard Cœur-de-Lion, Act I: Ô Richard, Ô mon roi
2. Florian Sempey, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine & Victor Jacob - Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act I Scene 2: Quel air sombre / D’un amour qui me brave
3. Florian Sempey, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine & Victor Jacob - Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act I Scene 2: À moi viens, ouvre tes ailes
4. Florian Sempey, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine & Victor Jacob - Orff: Carmina Burana: II. In Taberna: No. 1, Estuans interius
5. Florian Sempey, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine & Victor Jacob - Tchaikovsky: La Belle au bois dormant, Op. 66, Act I Scene 9: Finale
6. Florian Sempey, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine & Victor Jacob - Orff: Carmina Burana: II. In Taberna: No. 3, Ego sum abbas
7. Florian Sempey, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine & Victor Jacob - Orff: Carmina Burana: II. In Taberna: No. 4, In taberna quando sumus
8. Florian Sempey, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine & Victor Jacob - Thomas: Hamlet, Act II: Ô vin, dissipe la tristesse
9. Florian Sempey, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine & Victor Jacob - Dumas: Les mirifiques aventures du Chevalier d'Eon: De Bourgogne je suis un fruit
10. Florian Sempey, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine & Victor Jacob - d’Indy: Fervaal, Op, 40, Act III: Prélude
11. Florian Sempey, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine & Victor Jacob - Gounod: Roméo et Juliette, CG 9, Act I: Mab, la reine des mensonges
12. Florian Sempey, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine & Victor Jacob - Meyerbeer: Le pardon de Plöermel, Act I Scene 5: Ô puissante magie
13. Florian Sempey, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine & Victor Jacob - Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act III: O du mein holder Abendstern
14. Florian Sempey, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine & Victor Jacob - Tchaikovsky: La Belle au bois dormant, Op. 66, Act II Scene 10: Entracte et scène
15. Florian Sempey, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine & Victor Jacob - Thomas: Hamlet, Act 5: La fatigue alourdit mes pas - Comme une pâle fleur
16. Florian Sempey, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine & Victor Jacob - Tchaikovsky: The Enchantress, TH 9, Act III: What have I done?
17. Florian Sempey, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine & Victor Jacob - Wagner: Lohengrin, WWV 75: Prelude



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