Jacques Jansen - The Decca Recitals - Eloquence: ELQ4824603 - CD

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Jansen’s subtle, light-timbred baritone with Jacqueline Bonneau’s superb accompaniment gives a real insight into interpreting French song (Debussy, Ravel and Chabrier), which here ranges from... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Apr 2017
Catalogue No: ELQ4824603
Label: Eloquence
Series: The Decca Recitals
Length: 67 minutes

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Debussy: Trois ballades de François Villon, L. 119

Work length10:48

Jacques Jansen (baritone), Jacqueline Bonneau (piano)
Recorded: 1952-07
Recording Venue: La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

1. Ballade de Villon à s'amye

Track length4:38

2. Ballade que Villon fait à la requeste de sa mère pour prier Nostre Dame

Track length4:09

3. Ballade des femmes de Paris

Track length2:01

Debussy: Le promenoir des deux amants

Work length6:15

Jacques Jansen (baritone), Jacqueline Bonneau (piano)
Recorded: 1952-07
Recording Venue: La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

1. Auprès de cette grotte sombre

Track length2:26

2. Crois mon conseil, chère Climène

Track length1:42

3. Je tremble en voyant ton visage

Track length2:07

Debussy: Fêtes galantes - Set 1

Work length1:22

Jacques Jansen (baritone), Jacqueline Bonneau (piano)
Recorded: 1952-07
Recording Venue: La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

2. Fantoches

Track length1:22

Chabrier: Les Cigales

Work length2:51

Jacques Jansen (baritone), Jacqueline Bonneau (piano)
Recorded: 1952-07
Recording Venue: La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

Chabrier: Ballade des gros dindons

Work length3:20

Jacques Jansen (baritone), Jacqueline Bonneau (piano)
Recorded: 1952-07
Recording Venue: La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

Chabrier: Villanelle des petits canards

Work length1:49

Jacques Jansen (baritone), Jacqueline Bonneau (piano)
Recorded: 1952-07
Recording Venue: La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

Chabrier: L'ile heureuse

Work length2:58

Jacques Jansen (baritone), Jacqueline Bonneau (piano)
Recorded: 1952-07
Recording Venue: La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

Ravel: Trois chansons madécasses

Work length12:37

Jacques Jansen (baritone), Maurice Gendron (cello), Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute), Jacqueline Bonneau (piano)
Recorded: 1952-07
Recording Venue: La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

1. Andante quasi allegretto: Nahandove

Track length4:52

2. Andante: Aoua! Aoua!

Track length3:40

3. Lento: Il est doux de se coucher

Track length4:05

Hahn, R: Quand je fus pris au pavillon

Work length1:19

Jacques Jansen (baritone), Jacqueline Bonneau (piano)
Recorded: 1952-09
Recording Venue: La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

Excerpt, Hahn, R: Chansons grises

Work length12:00

Jacques Jansen (baritone), Jacqueline Bonneau (piano)
Recorded: 1952-09
Recording Venue: La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

1. Chanson d'automne

Track length1:55

3. L'allée est sans fin

Track length2:03

4. En sourdine

Track length3:29

5. L'heure exquise

Track length2:52

2. Tous deux

Track length1:41

Hahn, R: L’Incrédule

Work length1:46

Jacques Jansen (baritone), Jacqueline Bonneau (piano)
Recorded: 1952-09
Recording Venue: La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

Hahn, R: Paysage

Work length3:03

Jacques Jansen (baritone), Jacqueline Bonneau (piano)
Recorded: 1952-09
Recording Venue: La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

Hahn, R: Etudes Latines

Work length3:07

Jacques Jansen (baritone), Jacqueline Bonneau (piano)
Recorded: 1952-09
Recording Venue: La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

10. Phyllis

Track length3:07

Hahn, R: Si mes vers avaient des ailes

Work length2:10

Jacques Jansen (baritone), Jacqueline Bonneau (piano)
Recorded: 1952-09
Recording Venue: La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

Hahn, R: Mai

Work length2:07

Jacques Jansen (baritone), Jacqueline Bonneau (piano)
Recorded: 1952-09
Recording Venue: La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

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‘Jansen is Pelléas,’ wrote Eduardo Arnosi in a love-letter to Roger Desormière’s still-unsurpassed first recording (Opera magazine, September 1999), and few would demur. There was, however, much more to Jacques Jansen than the refined ardour and spontaneity of this 1941 recording.

Just over a decade later, Decca producer John Culshaw spent a day in Paris at the studio used by Radio France, recording the still-youthful Jansen (1913–2002) in songs of Debussy, Chabrier, Ravel and Hahn which would be issued on two albums in 1953 and 1955. Pelléas remained his signature role – at a Rome production in 1956 he was praised for his ‘youth, good looks and sensitive musicianship’ (Opera magazine, June 1956) – and he would still be singing it in 1969 before retiring from the stage to teach at the Paris Conservatoire. However, the broader appeal of Lehár’s The Merry Widow gave him cause to sing Danilo on around 1500 occasions in France, and it is the dry, champagne wit sharpened by operetta that distinguishes this song recital, which is now issued for the first time on CD.

Jansen had an innate feeling for the throwaway perfection of Reynaldo Hahn’s word-setting: at the opera in Québec he also both starred in and produced the sparkling Ciboulette. In his booklet-note appreciation, Tully Potter remarks on the ‘sharply edged’ character of Jansen’s singing, and the unusually dramatic profile given to songs too often casually dismissed as trivial.

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Christmas 2017

Jansen’s subtle, light-timbred baritone with Jacqueline Bonneau’s superb accompaniment gives a real insight into interpreting French song (Debussy, Ravel and Chabrier), which here ranges from elusive to nostalgic to humorous

Jacques Jansen - The Decca Recitals

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