Paderewski, Duparc & Moniuszko - Chansons
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Label: NIFC (National Institute Frederick Chopin)
Cat No: NIFCCD070
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 7th August 2020
Contents
Works
L'Invitation au voyageLe Manoir de Rosamonde
Melodies (5), op.2
A Girl's Sorrow
Lirnik wioskowy (The Village Hurdy-Gurdy Man)
Song from the Tower
Tears
The Neman
Melodies (12) on poems by Catulle Mendes, op.22
Artists
Christoph Pregardien (tenor)Christoph Schnackertz (piano)
Works
L'Invitation au voyageLe Manoir de Rosamonde
Melodies (5), op.2
A Girl's Sorrow
Lirnik wioskowy (The Village Hurdy-Gurdy Man)
Song from the Tower
Tears
The Neman
Melodies (12) on poems by Catulle Mendes, op.22
Artists
Christoph Pregardien (tenor)Christoph Schnackertz (piano)
About
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1Moniuszko: Les Larmes (Odyniec) (before 1840)
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2Moniuszko: Les Plaintes de la jeune fille (Sztyrmer) (1842)
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3Moniuszko: Le Chant de la tour (Mickiewicz) (1857)
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4Moniuszko: Le Niémen (Mickiewicz) (before 1857)
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5Moniuszko: Le Joueur de lyre IV (Syrokomla) (before 1855)
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6Duparc: Chanson triste, op.2/4 (Cazalis) (1868)
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7Duparc: Soupir, op.2/1 (Prudhomme) (c. 1868)
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8Duparc: Le Manoir de Rosemonde (de Bonnières) (1879)
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9Duparc: Phidylé (de Lisle) (1882)
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10Duparc: L’Invitation au voyage (Baudelaire) (1870)
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11Paderewski: 12 Mélodies sur des poésie de Catulle Mendés, op.22 (1903): 1. Dans la Forêt
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12Paderewski: 12 Mélodies sur des poésie de Catulle Mendés, op.22 (1903): 2. Ton cœur est d’or pur
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13Paderewski: 12 Mélodies sur des poésie de Catulle Mendés, op.22 (1903): 3. Le ciel est très bas
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14Paderewski: 12 Mélodies sur des poésie de Catulle Mendés, op.22 (1903): 4. Naguère
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15Paderewski: 12 Mélodies sur des poésie de Catulle Mendés, op.22 (1903): 5. Un jeune pâtre
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16Paderewski: 12 Mélodies sur des poésie de Catulle Mendés, op.22 (1903): 6. Elle marche d’un pas distrait
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17Paderewski: 12 Mélodies sur des poésie de Catulle Mendés, op.22 (1903): 7. La Nonne
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18Paderewski: 12 Mélodies sur des poésie de Catulle Mendés, op.22 (1903): 8. Viduité
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19Paderewski: 12 Mélodies sur des poésie de Catulle Mendés, op.22 (1903): 9. Lune froide
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20Paderewski: 12 Mélodies sur des poésie de Catulle Mendés, op.22 (1903): 10. Querelleuse
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21Paderewski: 12 Mélodies sur des poésie de Catulle Mendés, op.22 (1903): 11. L’amour fatal
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22Paderewski: 12 Mélodies sur des poésie de Catulle Mendés, op.22 (1903): 12. L’Ennemie
Europadisc Review
He opens with a group of songs by Stanisław Moniuszko (1819-1872), a composer best remembered for his contribution to Polish opera, above all in such works as Halka and The Haunted Manor. But he also composed a large number of songs to texts by some of the greatest Polish Romantic poets, and the proposal in 1862 for a French edition of his songs (entitled Échos de Pologne) was not only a source of huge national pride for the composer and his countrymen, but also an indication of the growing French fascination with Polish culture. The items included here give a good idea of Moniuszko’s direct, unpretentious way as a song composer, aiming for a straightforward but communicative setting of texts for which he had high regard. Odyniec’s ‘Les Larmes’ (Tears) and Sztyrmer’s ‘Les Plaintes de la jeune fille’ (A Girl’s Sorrow), both from the 1840s, are gentle vignettes of grief, the latter most effective when the vocal line seems itself to be ‘lowered’ into the grave where the deceased man lies. Adam Mickiewicz’s ‘Le Chant de la tour’ (Song from the Tower) is imbued with a distinctively Polish tinge of melancholy, while the same poets ‘Le Niémen’ (The Neman) is an intimate and poignant address to the great river to the east of Poland. A cheerful conclusion to this group of songs is the fourth part of Syrokomla’s Village Lyre Player, which has a positively Schubertian jauntiness to it.
The emotional temperature steps up a notch or two with a handful of Henri Duparc’s greatest mélodies, treated to exquisitely sensitive performances by Prégardien and Schnackertz. They rise to the building passions of ‘Chanson triste’, trace delicate lines in ‘Soupir’ (Lament), and imbue Le Manoir de Rosamonde with a thrillingly dramatic edge with clear echoes of Wagner. Best of all, however, are the subtleties of the inward-looking Phidylé and the proto-impressionism of Baudelaire’s epoch-defining L’Invitation au voyage, which receives what must be one of its most haunting renditions on disc, unforgettably coloured by Schnackertz’s delicate pianism and Prégardien’s dark-hued but still essentially light-toned voice.
Paderewski’s 12 Songs to Poems by Catulle Mendès were composed in 1903 during a break between strenuous concert tours, and though little known they must surely rank among his finest achievements as a composer. They inhabit a distinctly turn-of-the-century world, and they build from a quiet opening (‘Dans la forêt’) to a midpoint of considerable power and atmosphere (‘Elle marche d’un pas distrait’), the tension maintained through a strikingly intense ‘Viduité’ (Bereft), then seemingly evaporating into lunar coldness and detachment before a return to passion in ‘L’amour fatal’, with ‘L’ennemie’ (The enemy) making an equally arresting postlude. Paderewski was clearly deft at creating a quasi-impressionistic soundworld, and the piano writing is often as virtuosic and technically demanding as the vocal line. The performers here do these miniatures proud, and this account should give a welcome boost to Paderewski’s reputation as a song composer. As with all releases from the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, the whole of this engrossing, enterprising recital is beautifully recorded and sumptuously presented, making it a most attractive prospect for lovers of French and Polish song, as well as Prégardien’s many admirers.
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