Godard: Mélodies
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BENJAMIN GODARD
Godard: Mélodies
Tassis Christoyannis (baritone), Jeff Cohen (piano)
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Release Date: Monday 15 August 2016
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The mélodies of Benjamin Godard (1849-1895) are little known even by specialists of the genre. Yet Godard was prolific and most of his output came at a key moment in his evolution, around 1870. After the success of his dramatic symphony 'Le Tasse' in 1878, Godard was monopolised by the opera and composed several lyric works that overshadowed the 162 published songs, one of the most interesting parts of his catalogue.
The pieces selected here by Tassis Christoyannis and Jeff Cohen, most of them recorded for the first time, illustrate the composer's literary sensibility (Jean de La Fontaine, Théophile Gautier, Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire...) which he reveals in all their beauty.
Recorded under the auspices of the festival Godard, with the collaboration of the Palazzetto Bru Zane.
"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 at times very sexual…[Cohen] plays everything with admirable limpidity and poise. Genuine charm is a rare quality, but it's one that Godard and Christoyannis possess in spades. A beautiful disc, highly recommended." (Gramophone)
Tracks:
Te souviens-tu
Le Banc de pierre
Je ne veux pas d'autres choses
Dieu, qui sourit et qui donne
Jacotte
Fables de La Fontaine (6)
L'invitation au voyage
Les Adieux du berger (extrait des Pastorales, Op. 29)
Elle
Chanson du berger
Nouvelles Chansons du vieux temps
Printemps
Guitare
Chanson
Le Ménétrier
Si mes vers avaient des ailes
