Les poètes maudits Lore Binon & Inge Spinette

• George Crumb (1929): Apparition, Elegiac Songs and Vocalises for Soprano and Amplified Piano:
• 1Apparition, Elegiac Songs and Vocalises for Soprano and Amplified Piano: I. The Night in Silence Under Many a Star03:25
• Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947): Chansons grises:
• 2Chansons grises: V. L’heure exquise02:22
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918): Ariettes oubliées, L. 60:
• 3Ariettes oubliées, L. 60: I. C’est l’extase03:07
• 4Ariettes oubliées, L. 60: V. Aquarelles I, Green02:08
• Trois poèmes de Mallarmé, L.127:
• 5Trois poèmes de Mallarmé, L.127: III. L’éventail02:22
• Reynaldo Hahn: Le rossignol éperdu, première suite:
• 6Le rossignol éperdu, première suite: No. 7, Les deux écharpes01:39
• Claude Debussy: Trois poèmes de Mallarmé, L.127:
• 7Trois poèmes de Mallarmé, L.127: II. Placet futile02:15
• Reynaldo Hahn: Mélodies:
• 8Mélodies: D’une prison03:14
• Le rossignol éperdu, première suite:
• 9Le rossignol éperdu, première suite: No. 17, Ivresse02:02
• 10Le rossignol éperdu, première suite: No. 14, Portrait00:50
• Claude Debussy: Trois poèmes de Mallarmé, L.127:
• 11Trois poèmes de Mallarmé, L.127: I. Soupir02:44
• Reynaldo Hahn: Chansons grises:
• 12Chansons grises: I. Chanson d’automne02:00
• George Crumb: Apparition, Elegiac Songs and Vocalises for Soprano and Amplified Piano:
• 13Apparition, Elegiac Songs and Vocalises for Soprano and Amplified Piano: IX. The Night in Silence Under Many a Star03:58
• 14Apparition, Elegiac Songs and Vocalises for Soprano and Amplified Piano: III. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d01:44
• 15Apparition, Elegiac Songs and Vocalises for Soprano and Amplified Piano: V. Vocalise No. 2, Invocation to the Dark Angel01:15
• Reynaldo Hahn: Allegro appassionato:
• 16Allegro appassionato00:48
• Claude Debussy: Préludes, Livre I, L. 117:
• 17Préludes, Livre I, L. 117: VI. Des pas sur la neige04:36
• Ariettes oubliées, L. 60:
• 18Ariettes oubliées, L. 60: III. L’ombre des arbres02:45
• Reynaldo Hahn: Les feuilles blessées:
• 19Les feuilles blessées: II. Encor sur le pavé, sonne mon pas nocturne02:11
• Claude Debussy: Ariettes oubliées, L. 60:
• 20Ariettes oubliées, L. 60: VI. Aquarelles II, Spleen02:26
• Reynaldo Hahn: Le rossignol éperdu, première suite:
• 21Le rossignol éperdu, première suite: No. 24, Effet de la nuit sur la Seine02:36
• 22Le rossignol éperdu, première suite: No. 22, Ouranos03:12
• George Crumb: Apparition, Elegiac Songs and Vocalises for Soprano and Amplified Piano:
• 23Apparition, Elegiac Songs and Vocalises for Soprano and Amplified Piano: VII. Vocalise No. 3, Death Carol ("Song of the Nightbird")00:57
• 24Apparition, Elegiac Songs and Vocalises for Soprano and Amplified Piano: VIII. Come Lovely and Soothing Death07:01
• Total Runtime01:01:37

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In 1884, Paul Verlaine published an anthology entitled Les poètes maudits, a work paying homage to French Parnassianism and giving meaning to the concept of the poète maudit (accursed poet), so specific to the period towards the end of the nineteenth century and to the angst of its writers. Their names – Verlaine, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, de Lautréamont, Corbière, de Nerval and Mallarmé – and their existential malaise are reflected in the works of the musicians of their time.

This is Inge Spinette’s fifth release with Fuga Libera, and this time she is joined by the talented soprano Lore Binon. In this album, the duo focus on the enduring link between poetry and music, applying their talents to works by Claude Debussy and Reynaldo Hahn, in dialogue with the American composer George Crumb. They create a perfect alchemy in which the hues of these composers are revealed in all their delicate nuances.

Lore Binon, soprano
Inge Spinette, piano

Lore Binon
started her musical education at the age of five, studying the violin. She was a laureate of several competitions and obtained her Masters in violin at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where she studied with Yuzuku Horigome. Whilst studying the violin she discovered a new passion, singing. She began her vocal training at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, obtaining her Bachelor degree with Beatrijs Devos.

Lore continued her vocal studies in Barcelona at the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya, with Margarida de Natividade. In 2011 she obtained her Masters degree at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Valérie Guillorit. During her studies she was awarded the Cardon prize for exceptional results by the Royal Conservatory of Music, Brussels. She currently receives coaching from Margreet Honig.

She has performed in several music theatre productions, including Revelations with Transparant and Berberio, a music theatre piece for children, for which they achieved a Yamaward. She participates in an interantional tour of Children of nowhere in collaboration with Lod and actress Viviane De Muynck and music by Dominique Pauwels. She made her operatic debut as Barbarina (Nozze di Figaro) with the Freiburger Barockorchester under the baton of René Jacobs.

Lore is also active in the contemporary music field and has performed Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire at the Schiermonnikoog Festival (the Netherlands) and participated in Sirènes by Luca Francesconi with Brussels Philharmonic led by Michel Tabachnik (Festival Musica, Strasbourg) as well as an international tour of Drumming (Steve Reich) with Ictus and Rosas.

She also has a keen interest in the performance of lieder, performing at the Muziekgebouw aan 't Ij (Amsterdam) in the supporting program of the series “Grote zangers” and in England, where she gave recitals at the prestigious Oxford Lieder Festival, Chipping Campden and Wesley Chapel Harrogate.

Lore’s rich and sensitive musical personality makes her much sought after as a soloist. She enjoys regular collaborations with ensembles such as Ictus, Oxalys, Flemish Radio Choir, Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra and Spectra Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, Freiburger Barockorchester, De Filharmonie, Vlaams Radio Koor, Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen, performing f.i. Die sieben letzte Worten unseres Erlösers (Haydn), Magnificat (Bach), Dixit Dominus (Händel), Lobgesang (Mendelssohn) et Ein Deutches Requiem (Brahms) She has collaborated with conductors such as René Jacobs, Hervé Niquet, Jos van Veldhoven and Michel Tabachnik and performed in venues such as Bozar (BE), Salle Pleyel (FR), Opera de Lyon (FR), Palau de la musica (ESP) De doelen (NL) and Tchaikovsky Hall (RS).

Chamber music is another of Lore’s passions. She collaborates with many different ensembles such as Ictus, Oxalys , Zefiro Torna, Il Gardelino and De Nederlandse Bachvereniging. and is a founding member of the ensemble "Revue blanche", a quartet consisting of the rather unusual combination of harp, flute, viola and voice. In 2013 the ensemble was awarded the Klara for “young promise” and has followed an impressive traject aver since.

This season Lore sings the role of Pamina in Die Zauberflöte at the Flemish Opera. She is artist in residence for the Festival of Flanders Mechelen and will perform the solo soprano part in the 4th Mahler Symfony with the Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse under the baton of Loethar Koenigs. In november 2017, a disque, including melodies of f.i. Debussy and Hahn, will be released by Outhere Music.

Inge Spinette
has been rehearsal pianist at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie since 1992, first under Antonio Pappano, and since 2003 under Kazushi Ono.This has given her the opportunity to work with singers of international reputation and to play at concerts, notably during the Rencontres Musicales.

She is also in charge of lessons in melody accompaniment at the Flemish Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where she obtained her superior Diploma of piano. She underwent a specialisation at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, essentially in melody and opera accompaniment. In parallel, she followed masterclasses with Graham Johnson, Martin Isepp, Dalton Baldwin, Roger Vignoles and Helmut Deutsch.

She herself accompanied masterclasses of Lucienne Van Deyck, Vera Rosza, Grace Bumbry, Tom Krause, Andreas Scholl, Raina Kabaivanska, Suzanne Eken, Sarah Walker, Sir Donald McIntyre, Gérard Souzay, Stuart Burrows and Udo Reinemann. Inge Spinette regularly plays with singers and in chamber music concerts, in Belgium and abroad. She s been heard at the Flanders Festival, at the Festival de Wallonie, at deSingel, November Music, transit, Flagey and Klara, for the RTBF and also on foreign radios.

She also collaborated on the Mozart/concertaria s production of Rosas, a dance company, for the pianoforte parts.

Her discography includes several recordings of four-hand piano works of Mozart (on a Walter pianoforte), of Shubert (on a Graft pianoforte), of Debussy (on a Erard), of Brahms (on a Bösendorfer), of Kurtág and of Goeyvaerts, as well as Sonata for two Pianos and Percussion of Bartók with pianist Jan Michiels (in pianoduo YIN-YANG). Her close collaboration with baritone Jan Vandercrabben was rewarded by a Grand Prix du Disque Lyrique 2001 in recognition of their recording of melodies by Debussy, Fauré and Duparc. A CD with Goethe Lieder by Hugo Wolf with tenor Yves Saelens was published at Eufoda in 2004, followed this year by a CD of melodies by Gabriel Fauré with baritone Jan Vandercrabben. In June 2005, she had the honour of accompanying José van Dam during a concert at la Monnaie.In 2006 a second CD with Jan Vandercrabben appeared with Fuga Libera and recently a CD with Yves Saelens with Romances of P.Tosti. In 2008-2009 she’ll accompany a serie of recitals with the soprano Hendrickje Van Kerkhove, who is elected as “Rising Star”, all through Europe. (Concertgebouw-Amsterdam, Bozar-Brussels, Musikverhein-Wien, Madrid, Athens, …)

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