Mélodies: Stéphane Degout & Hélène Lucas

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The voice - a natural for Pelléas, one would think - responds rapturously to Debussy and Verlaine's submarine wonders — Gramophone Magazine, April 2011 More…

Release Date: 24th Jan 2011
Catalogue No: V5209
Label: Naive
Length: 74 minutes

Debussy: La mer est plus belle que les cathédrales

Work length2:35

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Stéphane Degout, Hélène Lucas, Claude Debussy

Debussy: Le son du cor s'afflige vers les bois

Work length3:13

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Stéphane Degout, Hélène Lucas, Claude Debussy

Debussy: L'échelonnement des haies

Work length1:46

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Stéphane Degout, Hélène Lucas, Claude Debussy

Duparc: Le Galop

Work length3:27

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Stéphane Degout, Hélène Lucas, Henri Duparc

Duparc: Lamento

Work length3:12

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Stéphane Degout, Hélène Lucas, Henri Duparc

Duparc: Élégie

Work length3:08

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Stéphane Degout, Hélène Lucas, Henri Duparc

Duparc: La Vie antérieure

Work length5:07

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Stéphane Degout, Hélène Lucas, Henri Duparc

Saint-Saëns: Mélodies persanes (Au cimetière)

Work length3:01

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Stéphane Degout, Hélène Lucas, Camille Saint-Saëns

Saint-Saëns: Mélodies persanes (Tournoiement, songe d'opium)

Work length3:10

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Stéphane Degout, Hélène Lucas, Camille Saint-Saëns

Chabrier: L'ile heureuse

Work length3:11

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Stéphane Degout, Hélène Lucas, Emmanuel Chabrier

Chabrier: Chanson pour Jeanne

Work length4:01

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Stéphane Degout, Hélène Lucas, Emmanuel Chabrier

Chabrier: Les Cigales

Work length3:24

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Stéphane Degout, Hélène Lucas, Emmanuel Chabrier

Hahn, R: Trois jours de vendanges

Work length3:29

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Stéphane Degout, Hélène Lucas, Reynaldo Hahn

Hahn, R: Cimetière de campagne

Work length3:05

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Stéphane Degout, Hélène Lucas, Reynaldo Hahn

Ravel: Histoires naturelles (5)

Work length17:37

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Stéphane Degout, Hélène Lucas, Maurice Ravel

I. Le paon

Track length4:52

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II. Le grillon

Track length3:16

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III. Le cygne

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IV. Le martin-pêcheur

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V. La pintade

Track length3:17

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Debussy: Trois ballades de François Villon, L. 119

Work length11:01

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Stéphane Degout, Hélène Lucas, Claude Debussy

I. Ballade de Villon à s'amye

Track length4:10

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II. Ballade que Villon feit à la requeste de sa mère

Track length4:34

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III. Ballade des femmes de Paris

Track length2:17

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New Naïve signing baritone Stéphane Degout has already featured as soloist with the internationally renowned choral group Accentus on Brahms' German Requiem and Fauré's Requiem. The programme on his solo debut CD is a selection of mélodies by various French composers, Debussy, Ravel, Duparc, Saint-Saëns, Chabrier, and Reynaldo Hahn. Stéphane Degout first met pianist Hélène Lucas when he entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon in 1995. She soon detected the young singer’s qualities and introduced him to the world of the mélodie and the lieder, and Stéphane gave his first recitals of this repertoire with Hélène Lucas as accompanist. After his acclaimed debut as Papageno at the Festival of Aix-en-Provence, the international operatic world opened its doors to him and kept him away from the lied and the mélodie for a while, but he has now returned to his roots.

Next to the great names of the French mélodie, Fauré, Debussy, and Ravel, Gounod, Bizet, Chabrier and Saint-Saëns appear less often in the singer’s repertoire. Among the latter’s many songs the pieces featured here are splendid examples of subtle orientalism. The less numerous mélodies of Chabrier introduce a French approach to Wagnerism with highly elaborate piano parts and extremely sensual vocal lines. The third of the somewhat neglected mélodistes represented in this programme is Reynaldo Hahn. His vocal works are frequently viewed as relatively lightweight, but the two songs featured here Trois jours de vendanges, and Cimetière de campagne are full of depth and melancholy.

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April 2011

The voice - a natural for Pelléas, one would think - responds rapturously to Debussy and Verlaine's submarine wonders

10th February 2011

[there's] no mistaking the quality of his sensual, yet gritty voice, or of his artistry...Degout has an exceptional, if unobtrusive way of projecting a text, and you're conscious – as in the various settings of Baudelaire, Verlaine and Gautier – of listening to great poetry as well as great music...There's wonderfully fluid playing from his accompanist Hélène Lucas, too.

Mélodies: Stéphane Degout & Hélène Lucas

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