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MÉLODIES
Works by Chabrier, Debussy, Duparc, Hahn, Ravel
Claude Debussy:
1-3. La Mer est plus belle que les cathédrales
Le Son du cor s’afflige vers les bois
L’Échelonnement des haies
Henri Duparc:
4-7. Le Galop
Lamento
Élégie
La Vie antérieure
Camille Saint-Saëns:
8-9. Au cimetière (Mélodies persanes)/
Tournoiement, songe d’opium (Mélodies persanes)
Emmanuel Chabrier:
10-12. L’Île heureuse
Chanson pour Jeanne
Les Cigales
Reynaldo Hahn:
13-14. Trois jours de vendanges
Cimetière de campagne
Maurice Ravel:
15-19. Histoires naturelles –
Le Paon
Le Grillon
Le Cygne
Le Martin-Pêcheur
La Pintade
Claude Debussy:
20-22. Trois ballades de françois villon - Ballade de Villon à s’amye
Ballade que Villon feit à la requeste de sa mère pour prier Nostre-Dame
Ballade des femmes de Paris
Stéphane Degout (baritone)
Hélène Lucas (piano)
The programme on Stéphane Degout’s solo debut CD is a selection of mélodies by various French composers, Debussy, Ravel, Duparc, Saint-Saëns, Chabrier, and Reynaldo Hahn.
Stéphane Degout first met pianist Hélène Lucas when he entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon in 1995. She soon detected the young singer’s qualities and introduced him to the world of the mélodie and the lieder, and Stéphane gave his first recitals of this repertoire with Hélène Lucas as accompanist. After his acclaimed debut as Papageno at the Festival of Aix-en-Provence, the international operatic world opened its doors to him and kept him away from the lied and the mélodie for a while, but he has now returned to his roots.
Next to the great names of the French mélodie, Fauré, Debussy, and Ravel, Gounod, Bizet, Chabrier and Saint-Saëns appear less often in the singer’s repertoire. Among the latter’s many songs the pieces featured here are splendid examples of subtle orientalism. The less numerous mélodies of Chabrier introduce a French approach to Wagnerism with highly elaborate piano parts and extremely sensual vocal lines. The third of the somewhat neglected mélodistes represented in this programme is Reynaldo Hahn. His vocal works are frequently viewed as relatively lightweight, but the two songs featured here Trois jours de vendanges, and Cimetière de campagne are full of depth and melancholy.
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