Debussy: Trois Mélodies de Verlaine

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The Sea

Songs by Debussy, Fauré & Schubert

Debussy:

Trois Mélodies de Verlaine

Beau Soir

Fauré:

Poème d'un jour Op. 21

L'horizon chimérique, Op. 118

Les berceaux, Op. 23 No. 1

En sourdine, Op. 58 No. 2 (Verlaine)

Chanson du pêcheur Op. 4 No. 1

Larmes Op. 51 No. 1

Schubert:

Der Schiffer, D536 (Mayrhofer)

Meeres Stille, D216, Op. 3 No. 2 (Goethe)

Fahrt zum Hades, D526 (Mayrhofer)

Auf der Donau, D553 (Mayrhofer)

Erlafsee D586 (Mayrhofer)

Gondelfahrer, D808

Ruckweg, D476 (Mayrhofer)

Am Strome, D539 (Mayrhofer)

Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, second version, D583 (Schiller)

Henk Neven (baritone) & Hans Eijsackers (piano)

The Sea, songs of water and the sea, diverse in colour and emotion. Henk Neven on his new ONYX recording: "During the recordings of my debut album 'Auf einer Burg' in Suffolk, I visited, after a day’s work, the coastal town of Aldeburgh. It was winter-time and at six o’clock pitch dark already. I was walking along the sea. Darkness all around.

Nevertheless I heard, smelt and felt the sea. Not visible but very present.

We sat by the water for ages and indulged in fancies, philosophised, and written poetry lustily about the endless deep of the sea, about the horizon and what is behind it, about the similarity to our spiritual lives, about the currents that are as our lives; about the sea that takes us with it when we are tired of living; about the restless sailor who revives between storm and waves; about the solitary wife who, rocking her baby, is left alone; about the sea in which you pour out your heart… Have all these tears made the seawater so bitterly salt?

The sea and the water have been a source of inspiration for many poets and their poems inspired the composers likewise. The songs that were created that way have inspired me".

Henk’s debut album 'Auf einer Burg', lieder by Loewe and Schumann, ONYX4052, was praised by BBC Radio 3: "songsettings by Loewe, beautifully brought to life by baritone Henk Neven and pianist Hans Eijsackers... A world of fantasies and dreams and reflections on the passing of time and the transience of life. That’s what it says on the sleeve, and that’s exactly what they deliver so successfully. It’s the CD Review Disc of the Week and you’ll find it on ONYX Classics.”

“A delightful recital … Neven’s melodies are every bit as persuasive as his lieder … the recording team does the project proud.” Classical Music, 17th November 2012

“Rarely do you hear, even in the rarefied world of French melodie and German Lieder, a baritone who sings with such subtlety in shading of dynamic and tone as the Dutch baritone Henk Neven...and this latest disc extends my admiration even further in totally exquisite singing...Altogether a most memorable song record.” Gramophone Magazine, February 2013

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Debussy Songs Volume 1

Debussy:

Nuit d'étoiles

Fleur des blés (André Girod)

Voici que le printemps (Romance) (Paul Bourget)

Mandoline (Verlaine)

Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire

Les Angelus

Romance

Les cloches (Paul Bourget)

Trois Mélodies de Verlaine

Fêtes galantes - Set 2

Trois Ballades de François Villon

Christopher Maltman (baritone) & Malcolm Martineau (piano)

This collection includes songs from pretty well the whole of Debussy’s composing life, some of them well-known and acknowledged masterpieces, and some of them much less familiar though no less worthy of inclusion. Most of them, though, date from the 1880s and early 90s. Nuit d'étoiles is in fact Debussy's first published composition, dating from 1880 when he was eighteen. The Trois Ballades de François Villon date from 1910.

Christopher Maltman sings them all with his now familiar stylishness and sensitivity to words.

“an admirable recital” BBC Music Magazine

“You could not wish for more than Maltman’s intelligent singing and Martineau’s customary sensitivity to every nuance” Classic FM Magazine

“On the present disc, Maltman distinguishes himself beyond expectation in the realm of French Mélodie, singing throughout with elegance, conviction, communicativeness, specific attention to the text, and unblemished technical security, all utterly without mannerism, in a varied program spanning 30 years (1880 -1910) of Debussy song ... You should go out and buy it right now” Fanfare

“Christopher Maltman has already distinguished himself as a lieder singer, but now he reveals himself as a stunningly apt exponent of French mélodies” Opera News

“this young baritone invests all he touches with equal consideration and the 21 songs in his programme emerge fresh and compelling … a recording of strong focus” Yorkshire Evening Post

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The Debussy Edition

Debussy:

La Mer

The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez

Trois Nocturnes

The Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Pierre Boulez

Jeux - Poème dansé

The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez

Rhapsody for clarinet & piano (or orchestra), L. 116 'Première rapsodie'

Franklin Cohen (clarinet)

The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez

Images for orchestra

The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez

Printemps, suite for piano 4 hands or orchestra, L. 61

The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez

Fantasie for piano and orchestra

Jean-Rodolphe Kars (piano)

London Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Gibson

Deux Danses for harp & strings

Vera Badings (harp)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Bernard Haitink

Marche Écossaise

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Bernard Haitink

Berceuse héroïque

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Eduard van Beinum

Khamma

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Riccardo Chailly

Danse - Tarantelle styrienne

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Riccardo Chailly

Préludes - Books 1 & 2 (24, complete)

Krystian Zimerman (piano)

Images pour piano - Books 1 & 2

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)

Children's Corner

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)

Études pour piano (12) (complete)

Mitsuko Uchida (piano)

Suite Bergamasque

Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

Images oubliées (3) for piano

Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

Pour le piano

Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

Estampes (3) (Complete)

Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

D'un cahier d'esquisses

Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

L'isle joyeuse

Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

Arabesques (2)

Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

Hommage à Haydn

Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

Rêverie

Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

Page d'album

Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

En blanc et noir

Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky (pianos)

Petite Suite

Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky (pianos)

Lindaraja

Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky (pianos)

L'Enfant prodigue: Cortege et Air de danse

Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky (pianos)

Ballade

Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky (pianos)

6 Epigraphes antiques

Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky (pianos)

Symphonie in B minor

Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky (pianos)

String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10

Melos Quartet

Violin Sonata

Augustin Dumay (violin), Maria-Joao Pires (piano)

Cello Sonata

Mischa Maisky (cello), Martha Argerich (piano)

Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp

Ensemble Wien-Berlin

Syrinx for solo flute

Wolfgang Schulz (flute)

Ariettes Oubliées (6)

Véronique Dietschy (soprano), Philippe Cassard (piano)

Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire

Véronique Dietschy (soprano), Philippe Cassard (piano)

Jane

Véronique Dietschy (soprano), Philippe Cassard (piano)

Caprice

Véronique Dietschy (soprano), Philippe Cassard (piano)

Fête galante

Véronique Dietschy (soprano), Philippe Cassard (piano)

Trois chansons de Bilitis