EDOUARD LALO
Complete Songs Tassis Christoyannis (baritone), Jeff Cohen (piano) [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 16/Aug/2015 ] Born in 1823 and dying in 1892, Édouard Lalo encompassed this period of Romanticism that witnessed the evolution of the romance de salon genre into the mélodie française or French art song. Injustice of posterity: only Fauré, Duparc and Debussy have... |
BENJAMIN GODARD
Godard: Mélodies Tassis Christoyannis (baritone), Jeff Cohen (piano) [ Aparte / CD - released 15/Aug/2016 ] "Christoyannis is superb throughout. He proves a natural story-teller in the La Fontaine fables…the Nouvelles chansons glitter with elegance and bawdy wit and his intimate, caressing way with the Hugo and Baudelaire settings is utterly captivating an |
CHARLES GOUNOD
Gounod: Melodies Tassis Christoyannis (baritone), Jeff Cohen (piano) [ Aparte / CD - released 22/Jun/2018 ] Charles Gounod, the composer with 170 melodies, is best known for his pages after French poets. Yet almost a third of them is composed on English poems! This appeal to the language of Shakespeare arises during the 4 years that the composer spent in... |