Performer: Clotilde van Dieren, Katsura Mizumoto
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Cypres
Catalogue: CYP8614
Release: 2021
Size: 838 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Adolphe Biarent – huit mélodies pour mezzo-soprano
01. Lied – Pierre Quillard
02. Désir de mort – Jean Lahor
03. Le chant de ma mère – Anatole Le Braz
04. Il passa – Hélène Vacaresco
05. Chanson – Maurice Maeterlinck
06. La lune blanche luit dans les bois – Paul Verlaine
07. Ballades au hameau – Paul Fort
08. La chanson du vent – Jean Lahor
Hector Berlioz
09. La captive (orientale) op.12 – Victor Hugo
Francisco Salvador-Daniel
10. Chanson mauresque de Tunis
Charles Gounod
11. Medjé (chanson arabe) – Jules Barbier
Georges Bizet
12. Adieu de l’hôtesse arabe – Victor Hugo
Camille Saint-Saëns
13. La mort d’Ophélie – Ernest Legouvé
14. La brise (mélodies persanes op. 26) – Armand Renaud
Félix Fourdrain
15. Alger le soir – André Alexandre
Ernest Chausson
16. La caravane op.14 – Théophile Gautiez
Greatly neglected composers emerged from the shadows thanks to three CD releases by Cypres. The cycle of Huit mélodies for mezzo-soprano completes this process aiming as it does to highlight an exceptional musical personality through world premiere recordings. Such an action can only work when based upon the total dedication of thoroughly committed performers who enhance a programme inspired by the musical orientalism in vogue at that time.