Composer: Ernest Chausson, Claude Achille Debussy, Henri Duparc, Reynaldo Hahn, Joseph Jongen
Performer: Karen Cargill, Simon Lepper
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra Soloists
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Linn
Catalogue: CKD652
Release: 2021
Size: 1.09 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Hahn: A Chloris
02. Hahn: Le rossignol des lilas
03. Hahn: L’Enamourée
04. Hahn: Infidélité
05. Hahn: Les fontaines
Debussy: Trois chansons de Bilitis
06. I. La flûte de Pan
07. II. La chevelure
08. III. Le tombeau des naïades
09. Jongen: Calmes, aux quais déserts, Op. 54
10. Chausson: Chanson perpétuelle, Op. 37
11. Chausson: Sérénade italienne, Op. 2 No. 5
12. Chausson: Le charme, Op. 2 No. 2
13. Chausson: Le Colibri, Op. 2 No. 7 (de Lisle)
14. Chausson: Les Papillons, Op. 2 No. 3 (Gautier)
15. Duparc: L’invitation au voyage
16. Duparc: Chanson triste
17. Duparc: Extase
18. Duparc: Phidylé
Following their Linn debut, a ‘breathtaking album of songs by Gustav and Alma Mahler’ (The Herald), Karen Cargill and Simon Lepper return to fin de siècle Europe for a recital of songs by the ‘crème de la crème’ of late nineteenth-century French speaking composers. Entitled Fleur de mon âme, the album embraces the sensual soundworld of Hahn, Debussy, Chausson, Jongen and Duparc. The album opens with À Chloris which recalls the elegance of the seventeenth century before borrowing from the poetry of Ancient Greece in Chansons de Bilitis and setting sail on a calm sea with Chausson’s Sérénade italienne. Guest soloists from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra add orchestral colour to Chausson’s Chanson perpétuelle and Calmes aux quais déserts by lesser-known Belgian composer Joseph Jongen. The compelling romanticism of Duparc’s songs complete this bouquet of soul-searching French mélodies.