A sumptuous recording of French romantic music at its most ecstatic led by the brilliant young French conductor Guillaume Tourniaire featuring tenor Steve Davislim and The Queensland Orchestra.

The four ‘symphonic poems for voice and orchestra’—Psyché Op. 33, Les Djinns Op. 35, Eros Op. 37 and Ballade du désespéré Op. 61—by Vierne are all world-premiere recordings. The tragedies of Vierne’s personal life are shot through these extraordinary unpublished pieces.

Accompanying Vierne’s Poems on this release is Chausson’s masterpiece of nineteenthcentury French mélodie, Poème de l’amour et de la mer, recorded here for the first time by a tenor, the voice for which it was originally written. Steve Davislim follows his successful Melba recordings of Saint-Saëns, Richard Strauss, Britten and Schubert.