Chausson: Poème de l'amour et de la mer / Britten: Les illuminations

A journey through passion, vision, and sensuality, this album brings together three luminous works for voice and orchestra. At its heart is Ernest Chausson’s Poème de l’amour et de la mer, Op. 19—a sweeping, late-Romantic meditation on love and loss, where human emotion dissolves into the vastness of the sea.

Benjamin Britten’s Les illuminations, Op. 18, follows with electric intensity, setting Rimbaud’s vivid, surreal poetry in music that is both incisive and radiant. The program closes with Camille Saint-Saëns’ rare and intimate Extase, a delicate song of rapture and surrender.

Tenor Edgaras Montvidas brings refined lyricism and emotional depth to this richly poetic repertoire, joined by the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra (for the Chausson), and conductor Modestas Pitrėnas.

An exploration of love, language, and longing—where music becomes poetry, and poetry sings.