Composer: Claude Achille Debussy
Performer: Simon Lepper, Gillian Keith
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Deux-Elles
Catalogue: DXL1154
Release: 2015
Size: 227 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Fleur des blés, L 7
02. Beau soir, L 6
03. Jane, L 19
04. Caprice, L 5
05. Rondel chinois, L 17
06. Les Papillons
07. Rondeau, L 30
08. La fille aux cheveux de lin, L 33
09. Romance (Non, les baisers d’amour)
10. L’archet: Elle avait de beaux cheveux blonds, L 46
11. Flots, palmes, sables, L 25
12. Le matelot qui tombe a l’eau
13. Les elfes
14. Séguidille, L 14
Ariettes oubliées, L 60
15. I. C’est l’extase
16. II. Il pleure dans mon coeur
17. III. L’ombre des arbres
18. IV. Chevaux de bois
19. V. Green
20. VI. Spleen
A decade on since the release of the popular Debussy: Early Songs (DXL1052), Gillian Keith and Simon Lepper offer the next chapter in their Debussy chronicle, focusing on early songs inspired by the composer’s muse Marie-Blanche Vasnier, one of Moreau-Sainti’s students, who possessed a high and agile voice and who awakened Debussy’s musical and poetic instincts. She inspired no fewer than 29 of his early songs, seven of which are included on this disc.
This collection includes the world premiere recording of ‘Séguidille’ which was unpublished at the time of recording and other rarities such as ‘Les papillons’, ‘La fille aux cheveux de lin’, and ‘Flots, palmes, sables’.