CD:
Edgaras Montvidas: Chausson, Britten & Saint-Saëns

A poetic tapestry of voice and orchestra: Edgaras Montvidas releases new album featuring Chausson, Britten, and Saint-Saëns.

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 Arthur 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.

Edgaras Montvidas, tenor
Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra (Chausson)
Modestas Pitrėnas, conductor

Ernest Chausson
Poème de l'amour et de la mer, Op. 19

Benjamin Britten
Les illuminations, Op. 18

Camille Saint-Saëns
Extase

CD: ACC30677
EAN: 42 6023483 337 9

Available worldwide from September 12, 2025

Recorded at Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall, June 2021