Belle Epoque!

 
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Belle Epoque!
Adèle Charvet (mezzo) Florian Caroubi (piano)

[ Alpha Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 22 August 2025

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For her second recital with piano, mezzo-soprano Adèle Charvet reunites with Florian Caroubi, who has been her regular duo partner since 2015. Together they celebrate the belle époque of the great French melodists (Massenet, Debussy, Fauré) and their protégés, including Chausson, Hahn, Koechlin, Aubert, Caplet, Messager, Enesco, Albéniz, Madeleine Dubois and Nadia Boulanger, as well as the much less known Xavier Leroux and Ernest Moret. This is a programme about lines of descent and musical transmission, energised by the texts of great poets such as Verlaine, Mallarmé, Maeterlinck, Banville, Leconte de Lisle, Louÿs and Toussaint.

"It's all most beautifully done. Charvet's mezzo is warm and velvety...Caroubi, meanwhile, is a real revelation, a wonderful accompanist, marvellous in his understanding of colour, dynamics and rubato." Gramophone Award WINNER 2026 - Song

Tracks:

Albéniz Paradise Regained, Op 9 No 2
Aubert Six Poèmes arabes - Le vaincu
Bachelet Chère nuit
Caplet Cinq Ballades françaises - No 5, L'adieu en barque
Chausson Le colibri, Op 2 No 7
Debussy Apparition. Préludes, Book 1 - No 8, La fille aux cheveux de lin. Trois Chansons de Bilitis - No 2, La chevelure
Dubois Spleen
Enescu Entsagen
Fauré En sourdine, Op 58 No 2. La chanson du pêcheur, Op 4 No 1. Romance sans paroles, Op 17 No 3
Hahn L'énamourée
Koechlin Novembre, Op 22 No 2
Leroux Les frissons - Plainte d'Amour
Massenet Crépuscule. Mélodie, Op 10 No 5. Nuit d'Espagne
Messager La paix de blanc vêtue
Moret Elle et moi - No 1, Tu peux baisser la tête