The Complete Songs-volume 4
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The Complete Songs-volume 4
Jennifer Smith / Felicity Lott / Geraldine McGreevy / Jean-Paul Fouchecort / Stephen Varoce / Graham Johnson (piano)
[ Hyperion / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 1 December 2005
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'The sound is warm and initimate and Johnson's comprehensive notes are packed with information on each song and its cultural surround. In all this series has proved an impressive achievement, demonstrating that even the least known of Fauré's songs is well worth hearing'
- BBC Music Magazine
"This final volume is the jewel in the series' crown"
- Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice Dec 2005
'these four CDs deserve an honoured place in the collection of anyone who cares about one of the finest of all mélodistes'
- Interntional Record Review
This fourth-and final-instalment in the Hyperion series encompassing all Fauré's songs takes as its title a line from La chanson d'Ève, the matchless cycle which confirmed its composer's status as the master of French song and which concludes the Hyperion intégrale.
As with preceding volumes, Graham Johnson has employed a range of artists-the very finest interpreters of French song that could be found. Generous commentaries are provided for each song along with the original poems and English translations. (A French-language version of the commentaries is available via the Hyperion website.)
An alphabetical index to this four-disc cycle is printed in the booklet.
Tracks:
Le papillon et la fleur Op 1 No 1 Victor Hugo -- Jennifer Smith [2'14]
Rêve d'amour Op 5 No 2 Victor Hugo -- Geraldine McGreevy [2'45]
Dans les ruines d'une abbaye Op 2 No 1 Victor Hugo -- Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [1'45]
L'aurore Victor Hugo -- Geraldine McGreevy [1'26]
La rançon Op 8 No 2 Charles Baudelaire -- Stephen Varcoe [2'19]
Aubade Op 6 No 1 Louis Pomey -- Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [2'15]
Ici-bas! Op 8 No 3 Sully Prudhomme -- Geraldine McGreevy [1'31]
Aurore Op 39 No 1 Armand Silvestre -- Stephen Varcoe [2'11]
Le pays des rêves Op 39 No 3 Armand Silvestre -- Geraldine McGreevy [2'59]
Les roses d'Ispahan Op 39 No 4 Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle -- Dame Felicity Lott [3'15]
Nocturne Op 43 No 2 Villiers de l'Isle-Adam -- Stephen Varcoe [2'38]
La rose Ode anacréontique Op 51 No 4 Leconte de Lisle -- Dame Felicity Lott [2'28]
Soir Op 83 No 2 Albert Samain -- Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [2'16]
Le parfum impérissable Op 76 No 1 Leconte de Lisle -- Dame Felicity Lott [2'13]
Arpège Op 76 No 2 Albert Samain -- Dame Felicity Lott [2'07]
Mélisande's song from Op 80 Maurice Maeterlinck, tr. Jack W Mackail -- Geraldine McGreevy [2'35]
Le plus doux chemin Op 87 No 1 Armand Silvestre -- Stephen Varcoe [1'28]
Vocalise-étude -- Geraldine McGreevy [3'11]
La chanson d'Ève Op 95 Charles Van Lerberghe -- Jennifer Smith [23'47]
i Paradis [6'11]
ii Prima verba [2'23]
iii Roses ardentes [1'43]
iv Comme Dieu rayonne [2'01]
v L'aube blanche [1'23]
vi Eau vivante [1'22]
vii Veilles-tu, ma senteur de soleil? [1'38]
viii Dans un parfum de roses blanches [1'55]
ix Crépuscule [2'07]
x Ô mort, poussière d'étoiles [2'28]
