Orchestre Metropolitain de Montreal & Yannick Nezet-Seguin - La Mer - Debussy, Britten, Mercure

ATMA Classique reissues, in stereo format, its critically acclaimed 2007 recording of 'La Mer: Debussy, Britten, Mercure' performed by the Orchestre Metropolitain de Montreal, conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin.

La Mer garnered five stars from the French magazine Diapason, which declared, What is immediately apparent in Yannick N�zet-S�guin's Debussy is its meticulousness, its almost chamber-music like transparency, and its subtle shading. Pierre Mercure's Kal�idoscope was also praised for its formidably contrasted reading �Under Yannick N�zet- S�guin's baton, the work's constantly shifting emotional limate combines tragic grandeur with the most cheerful lightness.

La Mer revisits a live concert program performed by the Orchestre M�tropolitain during its 2006-2007 season. What genius Britten shows in his four interludes from the opera Peter Grimes. [�] N�zet-S�guin recreates the exact context of each scene portrayed, from the depths of the ocean to the sky-shaking tempest. [�] The young conductor ends with Debussy's La Mer, [�] a very impressive performance, sometimes lyric, sometimes livid, always detailed. (La Presse) It was pure delight to hear Pierre Mercure's Kal�idoscope played with such emotion. (The Gazette)

In 2020, Yannick N�zet-S�guin succeeds James Levine to become the third Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York.