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Fleur de mon âme

Karen Cargill

Classical - Released September 17, 2021 | Linn Records

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Following their Linn debut, a "breathtaking album of songs by Gustav and Alma Mahler" (The Herald), Karen Cargill and Simon Lepper return to fin-de-siècle Europe for a recital of songs by the "crème de la crème" of late nineteenth-century French speaking composers. Entitled "Fleur de mon âme", the album embraces the sensual soundworld of Hahn, Debussy, Chausson, Jongen and Duparc. The album opens with À Chloris which recalls the elegance of the seventeenth century before borrowing from the poetry of Ancient Greece in Chansons de Bilitis and setting sail on a calm sea with Chausson’s Sérénade italienne. Guest soloists from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra add orchestral colour to Chausson’s Chanson perpétuelle and Calmes, aux quais déserts by lesser-known Belgian composer Joseph Jongen. The compelling romanticism of Duparc’s songs complete this bouquet of soul-searching French mélodies. © Linn Records
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Pièces romantiques favorites pour violoncelle

Janos Starker

Concertos - Released January 1, 1989 | Delos

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Whisper Me a Tree

Olivia Gay

Classical - Released September 9, 2022 | Fuga Libera

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The forest has always been an important place for Olivia Gay. She wanders through the woods alone, listening not only to its silence but also to its murmurs. It is a place of creation where her cellist’s instincts are awakened and where she can find peace and quiet outside the city. She joined forces with the Office national des forêts in 2022 to raise public awareness of such spaces by inviting spectators to concerts given in the heart of the forest or in natural site. This album continues this project and includes works by Jacques Offenbach, Camille Pépin, Edward Elgar, John Luther Adams and Max Richter; the programme as a whole is under the aegis of Antonin Dvořák’s magnificent Silent Woods, which also lent its name to this initiative. © Fuga Libera
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Fauré et ses poètes

Marc Mauillon

Classical - Released January 10, 2020 | harmonia mundi

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Singing French mélodie necessitates the singer to strike a difficult balance between a perfect diction making the text which has been put to music intelligible, as well as getting the right tone of expression, being careful it doesn’t descend into preciosity. Thanks to a certain melodic line, Marc Mauillon is both tenor and baritone: he thus counts an enormous repertoire from the baroque era all the way through to today’s music. This Fauré recital is a veritable delight thanks to all of these combined qualities, to which the French singer adds his clear and touching timbre. A master of the art of the melody from his beginnings all the way through to his final compositions, Gabriel Fauré did not always put timeless texts to music himself. Beyond his faultless style and a voice perfectly suited to this art, Marc Mauillon (tastefully) discerned the suitable texts to accompany the 31 melodies of this new album dedicated to Fauré. With the help of Anne Le Bozec, who so judiciously supports him on the piano, he has picked works from Victor Hugo (one of Fauré’s real passions), Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine and Molière as well as more recent literature from Sully Prudhomme, Armand Silvestre, Paul de Choudens and Catulle Mendès. There is nothing obsolete about this album however, just simple and natural singing which unites melody to chanson française. © François Hudry/Qobuz The poetic renewal embodied by Hugo, Baudelaire, Verlaine and so many others after them radically changed the musical landscape and propelled French art song into a true golden age. This tribute to Fauré, the supreme master of the mélodie, gains its radiance from Marc Mauillon’s ideally clear voice and Anne Le Bozec’s delicate pianism. The singer’s second ‘solo’ recording on harmonia mundi shows him just as much at home in Faurean word setting as in the text of Lambert’s Leçons de ténèbres! © harmonia mundi