FAURÉ Mélodies. La Bonne Chanson RAVEL Trois Poèmes
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Composer or Director: Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Arte Verum
Magazine Review Date: 06/2014
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 65
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: ARV012
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(2) Songs, Movement: No. 2, Clair de lune (wds. Verlaine) |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Barbara Hendricks, Soprano Gabriel Fauré, Composer Love Derwinger, Piano Swedish Chamber Ensemble |
(4) Songs, Movement: No. 3, Spleen (wds. Verlaine: 1888) |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Barbara Hendricks, Soprano Gabriel Fauré, Composer Love Derwinger, Piano Swedish Chamber Ensemble |
(5) Mélodies, Movement: No. 1, Mandoline |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Barbara Hendricks, Soprano Gabriel Fauré, Composer Love Derwinger, Piano Swedish Chamber Ensemble |
(5) Mélodies, Movement: No. 2, En sourdine |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Barbara Hendricks, Soprano Gabriel Fauré, Composer Love Derwinger, Piano Swedish Chamber Ensemble |
(5) Mélodies, Movement: No. 3, Green |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Barbara Hendricks, Soprano Gabriel Fauré, Composer Love Derwinger, Piano Swedish Chamber Ensemble |
(5) Mélodies, Movement: No. 5, C'est l'extase |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Barbara Hendricks, Soprano Gabriel Fauré, Composer Love Derwinger, Piano Swedish Chamber Ensemble |
(La) Bonne chanson |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Barbara Hendricks, Soprano Gabriel Fauré, Composer Love Derwinger, Piano Swedish Chamber Ensemble |
(3) Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé |
Maurice Ravel, Composer
Barbara Hendricks, Soprano Love Derwinger, Piano Maurice Ravel, Composer Swedish Chamber Ensemble |
(3) Chansons madécasses |
Maurice Ravel, Composer
Barbara Hendricks, Soprano Love Derwinger, Piano Maurice Ravel, Composer Swedish Chamber Ensemble |
Composer or Director: Francis Poulenc, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Thomas Meglioranza/CD Baby
Magazine Review Date: 06/2014
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 55
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 888174 376271
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Fêtes galante |
Claude Debussy, Composer
Claude Debussy, Composer Reiko Uchida, Piano Thomas Meglioranza, Baritone |
(La) Bonne chanson |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer Reiko Uchida, Piano Thomas Meglioranza, Baritone |
(Le) Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée, 'Book of B |
Francis Poulenc, Composer
Francis Poulenc, Composer Reiko Uchida, Piano Thomas Meglioranza, Baritone |
Chansons gaillardes |
Francis Poulenc, Composer
Francis Poulenc, Composer Reiko Uchida, Piano Thomas Meglioranza, Baritone |
(2) Epigrammes de Clément Marot |
Maurice Ravel, Composer
Maurice Ravel, Composer Reiko Uchida, Piano Thomas Meglioranza, Baritone |
Author: David Patrick Stearns
In both discs, the artists surround themselves with attentive, first-class collaborators, Hendricks with the Swedish Chamber Ensemble and pianist Love Derwinger, Meglioranza with pianist Reiko Uchida playing an elegant-sounding 1890 Pleyel. Meglioranza isn’t recorded to his best advantage – it’s not the warmest acoustic imaginable and only captures some of the vocal richness that made him the Jesus of choice in New York performances of the St Matthew Passion.
Yet those who know his voice well might be astounded at how much it is transformed by the French language, which gives him a light baritonal quality recalling the young Gérard Souzay, though with a faster vibrato. His manner in La bonne chanson is so inside the music that he approaches the text almost as conversation. The piano-only arrangement also shows how succinctly Fauré brought each song to an emotional conclusion, often before you know it. In some of the more hectic, madcap Poulenc songs, Meglioranza doesn’t quite have the verbal agility of Sophie Karthäuser in her splendid Poulenc mélodies disc on Harmonia Mundi (who else does?) but he also knows how to let the humour naturally emerge from the music. Especially in La bestiaire, he never falls into Souzay’s heavy-handed animal characterisations that don’t wear well on repeated hearings.
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