CHANSONS FRANCAISE - WOLFGANG HOLTZMAIR
CHANSONS FRANCAISE - WOLFGANG HOLTZMAIR
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Chansons Françaises
Maria Belooussova (piano), Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone)
'For me,' Wolfgang Holzmair once remarked, 'the song is a continuation of speech - a higher form of expressing words and thoughts.' Over the course of three decades, the Austrian baritone has been true to his own belief in a stream of recitals and recordings of the Lieder, chanson and art-song repertoire. As recently as 2012 his album of Mahler's songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn was welcomed in Gramophone for his superb word-painting, 'replacing sheer vocal power with more Lieder-friendly qualities of agility, precision and nuance. Poetic narrative is everywhere apparent.' Such qualities lend distinction to his brand new album of 'Chansons Francaises' released on Eloquence. Recorded in Vienna in 2012, Holzmair is partnered here by the Russian pianist Maria Belooussova, who specialized in chamber-music partnerships with renowned instrumentalists and singers, among them Ivry Gitlis and Joseph Silverstein. Holzmair's personal selection focuses on the high-noon of the French art-song tradition in the latter half of the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth, moving between the exquisite melancholy of Théophile Gautier as set by Berlioz (in Les Nuits d'été) and Duparc, and the pastis-dry wit of Alexandre Arnoux, who found his musical match in Jacques Ibert (Chansons de Don Quichotte). Holzmair also encompasses the visionary sensibility of Faure in L'Horizon Chimérique, the sinuous opulence of Ernest Chausson (setting Gautier again in Les Papillons) and the folky simplicity of the Trois chansons de France by Debussy. Alongside an undoubted high-point in the entire French song repertoire (Ravel's last completed work, Don Quichotte à Dulcinée), Holzmair has also unearthed a genuine rarity in the person of Eugène Anthiome (1836-1916), whose two songs recorded here for the first time belong to the Parisian salon, sweet and suave in the manner of Reynaldo Hahn.
Berlioz: Les Nuits d'été, Op. 7
No. 1: Villanelle
No. 4: Absence
No. 6: L'île inconnue
Chausson: Le Colibri, Op. 2 No. 7 (de Lisle)
Chausson: Les Papillons, Op. 2 No. 3 (Gautier)
Chausson: Sérénade italienne, Op. 2 No. 5 (Bourget)
Excerpt, Ibert: Chansons (4) de Don Quichotte
No. 2: Chanson à Dulcinée
Ravel: Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
No. 1: Chanson romanesque
No. 2: Chanson épique
No. 3: Chanson à boire
Excerpt, Ibert: Chansons (4) de Don Quichotte
4. Chanson de la mort de Don Quichotte
Debussy: Romances (2)
1. L'ame évaporée
2. Les cloches
Debussy: Trois chansons de France
1. Rondel I: Le temps a laissié son manteau
2. La grotte
3. Rondel II: Pour ce que Plaisance est morte
Duparc: Phidylé
Duparc: Lamento
Duparc: La Vie antérieure
Anthiome: Mélodies (2)
1. Papillon bleu
2. Mignonne, puisque c'est l'automne
Excerpt, Fauré: 3 Songs, Op. 23
1. Les berceaux
Fauré: L'horizon chimérique, Op. 118
1. La mer est infinie
2. Je me suis embarqué
3. Diane, Séléné
4. Vaisseaux, nous vous aurons aimés
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