Debussy & Hahn - French Vocal Music
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Label: BR Klassik
Cat No: 900529
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 7th January 2022
Contents
Works
Ariettes oubliees (6)Les Angelus
Salut printemps
Chansons grises (7)
Artists
Christiane Karg (soprano)Angela Brower (alto)
Daniel Behle (tenor)
Tarek Nazmi (bass)
Gerold Huber (piano)
Max Hanft (piano)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Conductor
Howard ArmanWorks
Ariettes oubliees (6)Les Angelus
Salut printemps
Chansons grises (7)
Artists
Christiane Karg (soprano)Angela Brower (alto)
Daniel Behle (tenor)
Tarek Nazmi (bass)
Gerold Huber (piano)
Max Hanft (piano)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Conductor
Howard ArmanAbout
The cantata La Damoiselle élue was the first major success of the young Claude Debussy; appreciated for its beauty and tenderness, it is heard here for the first time in Howard Arman's version with two pianos, based equally on the orchestral score and Debussy’s own, independent piano version. It is joined by several of Debussy's solo and choral songs.
L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée, the poem by the symbolist lyricist Paul Verlaine, also hinges equally between Debussy and Hahn: it was masterfully set to music by both within a brief time period. The solo songs are performed by renowned soprano Christiane Karg, accompanied by Gerold Huber on the piano.
In his song and choral cycle Études latines, Reynaldo Hahn resurrected antiquity – that is, the romantically transfigured antiquity that was imagined at the time. Recreating such music not only gave the composer inspiration – in his recourse to ancient keys or musical instruments, for instance, including shepherd's flutes, pan pipes and lyres – but also great freedom. The piano accompaniment is restrained as far as possible. These serious and tender songs reflect on the life journeys taken by a person. After their final sounds have faded, no more words are needed, and no more questions remain unanswered.
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