艾迪斯合奏團 /世紀樂團
馬蒂厄羅馬諾 長笛
馬蒂厄度博卡 男中音
查拉 女高音
Faure's Requiem,"funeral lullaby" written for enjoyment as the composer put it, has a unique place in history.
Its soft, simple and modest poetry conveys moments of gentle contemplation and moving expressiveness which are entrusted to both the choir and the two soloists. With his Ensemble Aedes and the orchestra Les Siecles, Mathieu Romano is committed to render a Requiem faithful to its first performance. We hear thus the score in its original 1893 orchestration, where the organ plays a great role, and where Latin is pronounced in the French way as it used to be.
The clearest articulation of the Ensemble Aedes then perfectly fits Eluard's Figure humaine set to music by Francis Poulenc. We have never heard these sublime poems sung with such intelligibility before!
Finally the three Songs by Debussy elegantly close the album. Here again, the quality and clarity of the voices are stunning. Artistic director and founder of Ensemble Aedes Mathieu Romano has established himself as a magician of voices in a cappella scores. And voices ideally melt with the strings of Les Siecles under his baton.
A 100% French cast in a 100% French music disc for a triple rediscovery. Essential!
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Requiem, op. 48 (version de 1893 sur instruments d'epoque)
1. Introit – Kyrie
2. Offertoire
3. Sanctus
4. Pie Jesu
5. Agnus Dei
6. Libera me
7. In paradisum
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Figure humaine. Cantate pour double chœur mixte a cappella
8. De tous les printemps du monde
9. En chantant les servantes s'elancent
10. Aussi bas que le silence
11. Toi ma patiente
12. Riant du ciel et des planetes
13. Le jour m'etonne et la nuit me fait peur
14. La menace sous le ciel rouge
15. Liberte
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orleans
16. Dieu ! qu'il la fait bon regarder ! (1898, premiere version)
17. Quand j'ai ouy le tabourin (1908)
18. Yver, vous n'estes qu'un villain (1898, premiere version)
totale: 59'21
Ensemble Aedes
Les Siecles
Mathieu Romano |
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