Composer: Isolina Carrillo, Manuel de Falla, Gabriel Urbain Fauré, Léo Ferré, Jules Emile Frederic Massenet, Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, Erik Alfred Leslie Satie, Federico Moreno Torroba, Pauline Viardot-Garcia
Performer: Marina Viotti, Gabriel Bianco
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Aparté
Catalogue: AP311
Release: 2023
Size: 1.04 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Fauré: 3 songs, Op. 7
01. I. Après un rêve
Fauré: 3 Songs, Op. 18
02. III. Automne
Fauré: 2 Songs , Op. 27
03. I. Chanson d’amour
Fauré: 3 Songs, Op. 23
04. I. Les Berceaux
05. Massenet: Nuit d’Espagne
06. Carrillo: Dos gardenias
07. Torroba: Madroños
08. Almarán: Historia de un amor
09. Ferré: La Vie d’artiste
Satie: 6 Gnossiennes
10. I. Lent
Falla: Siete canciones populares españolas
11. I. El paño moruno
12. II. Seguidilla murciana
13. III. Asturiana
14. IV. Jota
15. V. Nana
16. VI. Canción
17. VII. Polo
18. Halimi: Quiero
19. Massenet: Élégie
20. Brel, Jouannest: La chanson des vieux amants
21. Rossini: La danza
22. Viardot-Garcia: Die Sterne, VWV 1059
Marina Viotti’s first solo recital, ‘Porque existe otro querer’ (Because there’s another lover), combines French and Hispanic romances in an exploration of the chromatic kaleidoscope of love’s feelings.
Marina Viotti is familiar with crossover, and here, once again with the guitarist Gabriel Bianco, she performs new arrangements of pieces by Fauré, Falla, Massenet, Isolina Carrillo and Jacques Brel.
These songs, so different in tone, style and aesthetic, share the same instrumental colour and find coherence in unexpected relationships, and they emerge as so many variations on the theme of love.
Her voice, beautifully mellow in songs to texts by Léo Ferré, Armand Silvestre and Sully Prudhomme, also brings out the fire of Manuel de Falla’s Siete Canciones and the languid sensuality of Dos Gardenias. Marina Viotti’s flamboyancy, together with Gabriel Bianco’s fine sense of colour, exploring all the nuances of light and shade, is magic indeed.