Une Flute Invisible: French Music at the Dawn of the 20th Century

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Une Flute Invisible: French Music at the Dawn of the 20th Century
Sandrine Piau (soprano) Herve Lamy (tenor) Gilles de TalhouAt (flute) Arthur Schoonderwoerd (piano)

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Release Date: Monday 21 August 2006

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MARBECKS STAFF SURPRISE DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR 2006 - A program of French song from the early years of the 20th century focussing on Debussy and his contemporaries.

MARBECKS STAFF SURPRISE DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR 2006

For almost half a century a short poem by Victor Hugo, Viens! une flûte invisible soupire, inspired many composers. The words are simple and a little sentimental: a young man declares his love while 'a flute unseen sighs in the orchards'. Camille Saint-Saëns set the poem to music on its publication in 1856 and again in 1885, the year of Hugo's death.

Others who set the poem included Benjamin Godard, Gabriel Pierné and André Caplet. The story begins one evening and ends the following morning; it is divided into six 'scenes', each beginning with a piece for solo piano from Debussy's Epigraphes antiques and containing pieces by various composers, forming a conversation between tenor and soprano, with flute accompaniment.

Tracks:

01. Claude Debussy Pour invoquer Pan, dieu du vent d'été (3'15)
02. Andrée Caplet Petite valse (2'36)
03. Claude Debussy La Flûte de Pan (2'58)

04. Claude Debussy Pour la danseuse aux crotales (2'58)
05. Albert Roussel Pan (3'31)
06. Benjamin Godard Viens ! (3'03)

07. Claude Debussy Pour que la nuit soit propice (3'47)
08. Claude Debussy La chevelure (3'34)
09. Albert Roussel Rossignol, mon mignon (4'27)
10. Gabriel Pierné Les trois chansons (1'30)

11. Claude Debussy Pour l'Egyptienne (3'58)
12. Andrée Caplet Rêverie (4'09)
13. Claude Debussy Le Faune (Verlaine) (2'24)
14. Camille Saint-Saëns Une flûte invisible (2'55)

15. Claude Debussy Pour un tombeau sans nom (4'19)
16. Claude Debussy Le tombeau des Naïades (3'06)
17. Claude Debussy La Flûte de Pan (Syrinx) (2'27)
18. Andrée Caplet Viens ! Une flûte invisible soupire (3'26)

19. Claude Debussy Pour remercier la pluie au matin (3'26)
20. Andrée Caplet Écoute, mon coeur ! (Tagore) (4'07)
21. Albert Roussel Ciel, aer et vens ... (3'38)
22. Camille Saint-Saëns Viens ! (3'05)