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Album-Release:
2016

HRA-Release:
26.10.2016

Label: BIS

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

Artist: Carolyn Sampson & Joseph Middleton

Composer: Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Poldowski (1879-1932), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Joseph Szulc (1875-1956), Deodat de Severac (1873-1921), Ernest Chausson (1855-1899), Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947), Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Charlie Parler

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  • Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Fetes galantes, Book 1, L. 80:
  • 1No. 1. En sourdine02:58
  • 2No. 2. Fantoches01:20
  • 3No. 3. Clair de lune02:42
  • Poldowski (1879-1932):
  • 4Cythere00:51
  • 5En sourdine02:44
  • 6Colombine01:53
  • 7Lheure exquise02:53
  • 8Mandoline01:34
  • Maurice Ravel (1875-1937):
  • 9Sur lherbe02:07
  • Josef Szulc (1875-1956): 10 Melodies, Op. 83:
  • 10Clair de lune, Op. 83, No. 103:08
  • 11Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit03:28
  • Gabriel Faure (1845-1924): La bonne chanson, Op. 61:
  • 12No. 1. Une Sainte en son aureole02:08
  • 13No. 2. Puisque laube grandit01:49
  • 14No. 3. La lune blanche luit dans les bois02:09
  • 15No. 4. Jallais des chemins perfides01:39
  • 16No. 5. Jai presque peur, en verite02:14
  • 17No. 6. Avant que tu ne ten ailles02:26
  • 18No. 7. Donc, ce sera par un clair jour dete02:22
  • 19No. 8. Nest-ce pas?02:05
  • 20No. 9. Lhiver a cesse02:43
  • Ernest Chausson (1855-1899): 4 Melodies, Op. 13:
  • 214 Melodies, Op. 13: No. 1. Apaisement02:43
  • Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921):
  • 22Le vent dans la plaine01:21
  • Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947): 7 Chansons grises:
  • 23No. 2. Tous deux01:42
  • 24No. 5. Lheure exquise02:39
  • Gabriel Faure (1845-1924): 2 Songs, Op. 46:
  • 25Clair de lune, Op. 46, No. 202:45
  • Charles Bordes (1863-1909):
  • 26Colloque sentimental04:24
  • Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Ariettes oubliees, L. 60:
  • 27No. 1. Cest lextase02:42
  • 28No. 2. Il pleure dans mon cur02:26
  • 29No. 3. Lombre des arbres02:25
  • 30No. 4. Chevaux de bois03:12
  • 31No. 5. Green02:14
  • 32No. 6. Spleen02:10
  • Deodat de Severac (1872-1921):
  • 33Paysages tristes01:45
  • Total Runtime01:17:41

Info for A Verlaine Songbook

In his poem Art poétique, Paul Verlaine declared that poetry should, above all, be musical: 'De la musique avant toute chose'. This quality in his work was already recognized by composers during his lifetime, and it is sometimes claimed that Verlaine has been set to music more often than any other poet after him. For their Verlaine Songbook, Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton have selected songs by ten composers, including two complete cycles Fauré's La Bonne Chanson and Debussy's Ariettes oubliées. The 33 songs on the disc set a total of 25 texts several poems by Verlaine have attracted more than one composer, and Clair de lune appears three times, in versions by Debussy, Fauré and Joseph Szulc, while La lune blanche can be heard no less than four, in versions by Fauré, Ernest Chausson, Reynaldo Hahn and Poldowski the pseudonym of the Belgian-born British composer Régine Wieniawski. Released in 2015 to critical acclaim, Carolyn Sampson's début recital disc, Fleurs (BIS2102), was a flower-themed anthology with songs by composers ranging from Purcell to Benjamin Britten via Schubert and Debussy. On the present disc the repertoire is rather more concentrated in time all songs were composed during a span of 35 years (c. 1880-1915) but the variety is nevertheless striking: a reflection of how different artistic temperaments have responded to the many-facetted Verlaine.

Carolyn Sampson, soprano
Joseph Middleton, piano

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