L'heure exquis: A French Songbook
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L'heure exquis: A French Songbook
Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano) Graham Johnson (piano)
[ Hyperion / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 1 May 2015
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Alice Coote is the darling of the world's opera stages and recital halls-to the extent that her solo recordings are rare events. In this much-anticipated French Songbook, Graham Johnson lends his incomparable insight to this most remarkable of talents on an emotional rollercoaster through twenty-three songs of Gallic love in all its guises.
'An exquisite time indeed in the company of Alice Coote and Graham Johnson, clearly relishing every minute of this delightfully formed and performed French song recital.' Gramophone Award Nomination 2016 - Solo Vocal
"The beauty of Alice Coote's mezzo-soprano glows with radiance." Financial Times, 9th May 2015
"Coote is in sumptuous voice, Johnson in his element." Sunday Times, 10th May 2015
"I enjoyed this recital very much indeed. The music has been chosen with discernment and the performances by both singer and pianist afford great pleasure. The artists are well recorded and the balance between them has been well judged by the engineers. As I indicated earlier, the documentation is first class." (MusicWeb June 2015)
Tracks:
Bachelet:
Chère nuit
Berlioz:
Le Spectre de la rose (from Les nuits d'été, Op. 7)
Chabrier:
Toutes les fleurs
L'ile heureuse
Chausson:
Le temps des lilas
Debussy:
La Grotte
Fauré:
Le secret Op. 23 No. 3
Fleur jetée, Op. 39 No. 2
Gounod:
Sérénade
Au printemps
Hahn, R:
L'heure exquise
Les étoiles (No. 9 of Douze Rondels)
Fumée
La Chère Blessure
Koechlin:
Novembre, Op. 22 No. 2
Poulenc:
Les chemins de l'amour
Voyage à Paris
Hotel
La grenouillère, Op. 5
Voyage
Saint-Saëns:
Aimons-nous
Soirée En Mer
Satie:
Je te veux
