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The "secrets" denoted by the title of this release on the increasingly productive Erato/Warner Classics are not repertory items, but the inner thoughts inspired by the music for mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa; the pieces on the are mostly well-known French mélodies. The exception is the final piece, composed by accompanist Fazil Say (who elsewhere has a remarkable quiet edge) and depicting the suppression of protests in Istanbul's Gezi Park, which is a bit out of place; perhaps it was felt that the program would be too conventional otherwise. No matter. The star of the show here is Crebassa's voice: a classic French song instrument, rounded, with abundant, yet precisely deployed vibrato on the longer notes, with the uvular "r" that French singers grow up with, but others struggle to replicate. Then, something's added: a hint of smoke that brings the songs out of the salon and into the wider world. It's a quality that singers develop over time (sometimes, in France especially, with actual cigarette smoke), but to hear it birthed full-grown is a rare and delicious experience. This is not to say that Crebassa is a vocal machine insensitive to text. Sample Henri Duparc's Au pays ou se fait la guerre, with its war-is-hell-on-the-home-front text by Théophile Gautier, and you hear a sensitive reading that brings out the underlying seriousness Crebassa is going for. The venue is not French, but Austrian: the Großer Saal at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. But this too supports the expressive goals of a French song recording in which everything comes together.
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3 Chansons de Bilitis, L. 90 (Claude Debussy)
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo-soprano - Fazil Say, Piano - Claude Debussy, Composer
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Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo-soprano - Fazil Say, Piano - Claude Debussy, Composer
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Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo-soprano - Fazil Say, Piano - Claude Debussy, Composer
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Shéhérazade, M. 17 (Maurice Ravel)
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo-soprano - Fazil Say, Piano - Maurice Ravel, Composer - Tristan Klingsor, Writer
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Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo-soprano - Fazil Say, Piano - Maurice Ravel, Composer - Tristan Klingsor, Writer
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Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo-soprano - Fazil Say, Piano - Maurice Ravel, Composer - Tristan Klingsor, Writer
© 2017 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2017 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
3 Mélodies de Verlaine, L. 81 (Claude Debussy)
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo-soprano - Fazil Say, Piano - Claude Debussy, Composer
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Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo-soprano - Fazil Say, Piano - Claude Debussy, Composer
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Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo-soprano - Fazil Say, Piano - Claude Debussy, Composer
© 2017 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2017 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera, M. 51 (Maurice Ravel)
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo-soprano - Fazil Say, Piano - Maurice Ravel, Composer
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Mirages, op. 113 (Gabriel Fauré)
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo-soprano - Fazil Say, Piano - Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Renee de Brimont, Writer
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Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo-soprano - Fazil Say, Piano - Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Renee de Brimont, Writer
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Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo-soprano - Fazil Say, Piano - Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Renee de Brimont, Writer
© 2017 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2017 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo-soprano - Fazil Say, Piano - Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Renee de Brimont, Writer
© 2017 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2017 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Mélodies (Henri Duparc)
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo-soprano - Fazil Say, Piano - Henri Duparc, Composer
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Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo-soprano - Fazil Say, Piano - Henri Duparc, Composer
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Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo-soprano - Fazil Say, Piano - Henri Duparc, Composer
© 2017 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2017 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo-soprano - Fazil Say, Piano - Henri Duparc, Composer
© 2017 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2017 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Gezi Park 3 (Fazil Say)
Fazil Say, Composer, Piano - Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist
© 2017 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2017 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Albumbeschreibung
The "secrets" denoted by the title of this release on the increasingly productive Erato/Warner Classics are not repertory items, but the inner thoughts inspired by the music for mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa; the pieces on the are mostly well-known French mélodies. The exception is the final piece, composed by accompanist Fazil Say (who elsewhere has a remarkable quiet edge) and depicting the suppression of protests in Istanbul's Gezi Park, which is a bit out of place; perhaps it was felt that the program would be too conventional otherwise. No matter. The star of the show here is Crebassa's voice: a classic French song instrument, rounded, with abundant, yet precisely deployed vibrato on the longer notes, with the uvular "r" that French singers grow up with, but others struggle to replicate. Then, something's added: a hint of smoke that brings the songs out of the salon and into the wider world. It's a quality that singers develop over time (sometimes, in France especially, with actual cigarette smoke), but to hear it birthed full-grown is a rare and delicious experience. This is not to say that Crebassa is a vocal machine insensitive to text. Sample Henri Duparc's Au pays ou se fait la guerre, with its war-is-hell-on-the-home-front text by Théophile Gautier, and you hear a sensitive reading that brings out the underlying seriousness Crebassa is going for. The venue is not French, but Austrian: the Großer Saal at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. But this too supports the expressive goals of a French song recording in which everything comes together.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 19 track(s)
- Total length: 01:09:10
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Marianne Crebassa
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Warner Classics
- Genre: Klassiek Liederen Liederen (Frankrijk)
© 2017 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2017 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
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