Paradis sur Terre: A French Songbook

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Spence’s generally light-voiced approach suits the music well, and, as ever, Malcolm Martineau provides the perfect foil…a divinely diverting hour — BBC Music Magazine, June 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Apr 2016
Catalogue No: CHAN10893
Label: Chandos
Length: 64 minutes

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Caplet: Les prières

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Nicky Spence, Malcolm Martineau
Recorded: 13-15 August 2015
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, UK

I. Oraison dominicale

Track length3:23

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II. Salutation angélique

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III. Symbole des Apôtres

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Boulanger, L: Clairières dans le ciel

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Nicky Spence, Malcolm Martineau
Recorded: 13-15 August 2015
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, UK

I. Elle était descendue au bas de la prairie

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II. Elle est gravement gaie

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III. Parfois, je suis triste

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IV. Un poète disait

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V. Au pied de mon lit

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VI. Si tout ceci n'est qu'un pauvre rêve

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VII. Nous nous aimerons tant

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VIII. Vous m'avez regardé avec toute votre âme

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IX. Les lilas qui avaient fleuri

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X. Deux ancolies

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XI. Par ce que j'ai souffert

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XII. Je garde une médaille d'elle

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XIII. Demain fera un an

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Debussy: Trois Melodies de Verlaine, L. 81, CD 85

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Nicky Spence, Malcolm Martineau
Recorded: 13-15 August 2015
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, UK

I. La mer est plus belle

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II. Le son du cor s'afflige vers les bois

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III. L'échelonnement des haies

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Chaminade: Ronde d'amour

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Nicky Spence, Malcolm Martineau
Recorded: 13-15 August 2015
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, UK

Chaminade: Mignonne

Work length2:40

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Nicky Spence, Malcolm Martineau
Recorded: 13-15 August 2015
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, UK

Chaminade: Villanelle

Work length2:16

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Nicky Spence, Malcolm Martineau
Recorded: 13-15 August 2015
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, UK

Chaminade: Mots d'Amour, W331

Work length2:08

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Nicky Spence, Malcolm Martineau
Recorded: 13-15 August 2015
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, UK

Chaminade: Si j'étais jardinier

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Nicky Spence, Malcolm Martineau
Recorded: 13-15 August 2015
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, UK

Chaminade: L'été

Work length3:31

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Nicky Spence, Malcolm Martineau
Recorded: 13-15 August 2015
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, UK

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Young Singer of the Year at the 2015 Opera Awards, Nicky Spence joins the highly praised accompanist Malcolm Martineau, just honoured with an OBE, in this unique collection of French songs from the turn of the last century, a repertoire that was very rarely performed in public at that time, the concept of the song recital still in the future.

But private salons offered room for noticeable stylistic experiment, as we can tell from the striking advances which Debussy displayed in the songs he composed within the first ten years of his career. The Verlaine settings recorded here may have been sung in the house of his wealthy friend Ernest Chausson, also a composer, and they were admired for the novelty of their musical language.

Both Lili Boulanger and André Caplet would class themselves as disciples of Debussy, borrowing his enriched harmonic vocabulary and adventurous piano style to write songs that are essentially beyond the range of the amateur. Cécile Chaminade, meanwhile, found a fluent style that owes more to Gounod and Saint-Saëns. She was fully at home and celebrated in the salon world, as both composer and pianist.

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June 2016

Spence’s generally light-voiced approach suits the music well, and, as ever, Malcolm Martineau provides the perfect foil…a divinely diverting hour

July 2016

Caplet and Boulanger allow us to hear some finely shaded soft singing and a striking mezza voce that extends upwards with ease, resulting in some remarkable hovering phrases in his upper registers…Martineau, as one might expect, is stylish and elegant throughout

8th May 2016

[Spence is] a singer near his prime, and already an artist of taste and discrimination...His French is remarkably idiomatic, and he finds colours and chiaroscuro shading in the music, beautifully underlined by Martineau’s playing, that are worthy of a native singer.

30th March 2016

[Caplet's Apostles’ Creed], like everything else here, is beautifully played by Martineau. Spence’s tenor may lack the ideal silkiness, but he is an engaging singer with a vibrant sound, capable of soaring above the detailed, shimmering accompaniments of Lili Boulanger’s 13 Clairières dans le Ciel.

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