Emmanuel: Les mélodies

Girod, Marie-Catherine;
Katz, Florence

1C 1198

After having explored his chamber music, his symphonic and pianistic works with equal happiness, it is now the turn of Maurice Emmanuel's melodies to once again experience the honor of the excellent label which reissues them. This complete overview of the vocal art of a fascinating author, still largely unknown, chronologically covers the years 1908 (In Memoriam ), 1911 ( Odacettes anacreontics ), 1918 (Music) and 1926 ( Vocalise-study ). Suffice to say a period of full creative maturity Emmanuel then close to fifty for the first compositions in the genre. • The design of this recording does not quite follow the order of time, but it does not matter because the last piece, although the first in date of composition, is the icing on the cake. Florence Katz humbly deploys her rather clear mezzo-soprano register, a register that creeps in with finesse and clarity in the sought-after meanders of French poetry at the turn of the century. Musically more "intellectual" than the fluted and naturalistic Odelettes by Rémi Belleau and Pierre de Ronsard - whose Emmanuellian language moreover follows freshness and a form of simplicity - Music constitutes the heart of the vocal production of their author. With his modal research integrated into an incredible modernism for the time, the greatest cycle of melodies of Maurice Emmanuel is a real pleasure of sounds as much linguistic as musical. Needless to say, these melodies will stimulate colors in the ear of the voice lover as well as sustained attention to those of the piano-commentary of Marie-Catherine Girod.

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Timpani

08-11-2013

3377891311988