Paradis sur terre: A French Songbook
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHAN10893
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 1st April 2016
Contents
Works
Clairieres dans le ciel (13 songs)Les prieres
L'Ete
Mignonne
Mots d'amour
Ronde d'Amour
Si j'etais jardinier
Villanelle
Melodies (3) de Verlaine (Songs to Verlaine poems)
Artists
Nicky Spence (tenor)Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Works
Clairieres dans le ciel (13 songs)Les prieres
L'Ete
Mignonne
Mots d'amour
Ronde d'Amour
Si j'etais jardinier
Villanelle
Melodies (3) de Verlaine (Songs to Verlaine poems)
Artists
Nicky Spence (tenor)Malcolm Martineau (piano)
About
But private salons offered room for noticeable stylistic experiment, as we can tell from the striking advances which Debussy displayed in the songs he composed within the first ten years of his career. The Verlaine settings recorded here may have been sung in the house of his wealthy friend Ernest Chausson, also a composer, and they were admired for the novelty of their musical language.
Both Lili Boulanger and André Caplet would class themselves as disciples of Debussy, borrowing his enriched harmonic vocabulary and adventurous piano style to write songs that are essentially beyond the range of the amateur. Cécile Chaminade, meanwhile, found a fluent style that owes more to Gounod and Saint-Saëns. She was fully at home and celebrated in the salon world, as both composer and pianist.
Reviews
This disc from tenor Nicky Spence and pianist Malcolm Martineau blows the dust off some worthwhile songs from Debussy and his French contemporaries. André Caplet’s three Prières have gently roaming vocal lines in the vein of his friend’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande; things intensify in the Apostles’ Creed, in which the piano especially takes passionate flight. This, like everything else here, is beautifully played by Martineau. Spence’s tenor may lack the ideal silkiness, but he is an engaging singer with a vibrant sound, capable of soaring above the detailed, shimmering accompaniments of Lili Boulanger’s 13 Clairières dans le Ciel, the sixth of which is unabashedly under the influence of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. Debussy’s Trois Mélodies de Verlaine are from a similarly misty, symbolist world. Written in 1891, these anticipate the 20th century; six contemporaneous songs by Cécile Chaminade look back to the 19th, but are lively and charming for all that. Erica Jeal
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