Jérôme Ducros Philippe Jaroussky - Green: Melodies Françaises on Verlaine’s poems on CD

Description

In his second album of French song from the 19th and 20th centuries – following the ground-breaking Opium, released in 2009 – countertenor Philippe Jaroussky explores settings of poems by Paul Verlaine (1844-96). One of France’s most revered fin-de-siècle poets and a pioneer of the decadent and symbolist movements, Verlaine famously declared his philosophy in the first line of Art poétique in 1874: ‘De la musique avant toute chose’ – ‘music before all else.’ In his poetry, the sound and the shape of each line carries meaning and expression, adding resonance to the words, which often evoke a twilit world of ambiguous emotions.

Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 Colloque sentimental (Transc. Ducros for Counter-Tenor, String Quartet and Piano)
2 5 Melodies de Venise, Op 58: No 1, Mandoline
3 Prison
4 10 Melodies, Op 83: I Clair de lune
5 Fetes galantes, Livre I, CD 86, L 80: I En sourdine
6 Fetes galantes, Livre I, CD 86, L 80: II Fantoches
7 Fetes galantes, Livre I, CD 86, L 80: III Clair de lune
8 5 Melodies de Venise, Op 58: No 5, C'est l'extase
9 Ecoutez la chanson bien douce
10 5 Melodies de Venise, Op 58: No 3, Green
11 O triste, triste etait mon ame
12 Le vent dans la plaine
13 5 Melodies de Venise, Op 58: No 2, En sourdine
14 Fisch-Ton-Kan: Air. "Qui je suis, qui je suis" (Fisch-Ton-Kan) [Transcr. Ducros]
15 7 Chansons grises: IV. En sourdine
16 2 Melodies, Op 83: No 1, Prison
17 Mandoline, CD 43, L. 29
18 Apaisement
19 Un grand sommeil noir
20 4 Melodies, Op 51: No 3, Spleen
21 Revons, c'est l'heure
22 Un grand sommeil noir
23 Ecoutez la chanson bien douce

Disc: 2
1 2 Melodies, Op 46: No 2, Clair de lune
2 7 Chansons grises: I. Chanson d'automne (Transc. Jaroussky for Counter-Tenor and String Quartet)
3 Green
4 Ariettes oubliees, CD 63, L 60: No 2, Il pleure dans mon coeur
5 L'heure exquise
6 Colombine
7 Chanson d'automne (Transc. Ducros for Counter-Tenor, String Quartet and Piano)
8 Mandoline
9 3 Melodies, Op 4: II Il pleure dans mon coeur
10 20 Melodies, Book I: XVI D'une prison
11 Fisch-Ton-Kan: Air. "J'engraisse" (Poussah) [Transcr. Ducros]
12 4 Melodies, Op 22: IV Il pleure dans mon coeur
13 La bonne chanson, Op. 61: No. 3, La lune blanche luit dans les bois (Version for Voice, Piano and String Quintet)
14 Promenade sentimentale
15 Ariettes oubliees, CD 63, L 60: No 5, Aquarelles I Green
16 Colloque sentimental
17 Fetes galantes, Livre II, CD 114, L 104: I Les Ingenus
18 Fetes galantes, Livre II, CD 114, L 104: II Le Faune
19 Fetes galantes, Livre II, CD 114, L 104: III Colloque sentimental
20 Colombine