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Songs by Reynaldo Hahn

This two-CD set is the most representative recording of Hahn's songs ever made. It includes the complete Etudes Latines and Rondels (both with choir) as well as many of his most familiar songs.

Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Susan Bickley (mezzo soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)

The London Schubert Chorale, Stephen Layton

The two cycles, Douze rondels and Etudes latines, are linked by a common fascination with the past.
The Douze rondels were composed to poems in a medieval metre, which allowed Hahn to try his... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: CDA67141-2
Label: Hyperion
Series: French Song Edition
Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

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Hahn, R: Si mes vers avaient des ailes

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Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Hahn, R: Paysage

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Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Hahn, R: Reverie

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Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Hahn, R: Offrande

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Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Hahn, R: Mai

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Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Hahn, R: Infidélité

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Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Hahn, R: Seule

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Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Hahn, R: Les cygnes

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Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Hahn, R: Nocturne

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Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Hahn, R: Trois jours de vendange

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Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Hahn, R: D'une prison

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Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Hahn, R: Seraphine

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Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Excerpt, Hahn, R: Chansons grises

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Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

V. L'heure exquise

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Hahn, R: Fêtes galantes

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Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Hahn, R: Douze Rondels

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Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano), Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
The London Schubert Chorale
Stephen Layton

I. Le jour

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II. Je me metz en vostre mercy

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III. Le printemps

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IV. L'air

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V. La paix

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VI. Gardez le trait de la fenêtre

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VII. La pêche

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VIII. Quand je fus pris au pavillon

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IX. Les étoiles

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X. L'automne

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XI. La nuit

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XII. Le souvenir d'avoir chanté

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Hahn, R: Quand la nuit n'est pas étoilée

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Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Hahn, R: Le plus beau présent

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Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Hahn, R: Sur l'eau

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Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Hahn, R: Le rossignol des lilas

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Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Hahn, R: A Chloris

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Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Hahn, R: Ma jeunesse

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Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Hahn, R: Puisque j'ai mis ma lèvre

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Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Hahn, R: Etudes Latines

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Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Chris Gould (piano)
The London Schubert Chorale
Stephen Layton

I. Lydie

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II. Néère

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III. Salinum

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IV. Thaliarque

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V. Lydé

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VI. Vile potabis

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VII. Tyndaris

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VIII. Pholoé

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IX. Phidylé

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X. Phyllis

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Hahn, R: La Nymphe de la Source

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Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Hahn, R: Au rossignol

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Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Hahn, R: Je me souviens

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Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Excerpt, Hahn, R: Mozart

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Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Act 2. Air de la lettre

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Hahn, R: O mon bel inconnu

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Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Act 2. C'est très vilain d'être infidèle

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Excerpt, Hahn, R: Ciboulette

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Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano), Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)

Act 2. C'est sa banlieu

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Act 2. Nous avons fait un beau voyage

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Hahn, R: Une revue

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Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Extract. La dernière valse

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The most Romantic and endearing of all French composers of La Belle Epoch, Reynaldo Hahn was not French at all. Born in Caracas to a Venezuelan mother and a German father he moved to Paris at an early age and soon became the darling of the salons. His most famous song, If my verses had wingsrecorded many times by artists from Dame Nellie Melba to Joan Sutherlandwas written when he was 13. This two-CD set is the most representative recording of Hahn's songs ever made. It includes the complete Etudes Latines and Rondels (both with choir) as well as many of his most familiar songs. It also includes a number of songs never recorded before now.

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2010

The two cycles, Douze rondels and Etudes latines, are linked by a common fascination with the past.
The Douze rondels were composed to poems in a medieval metre, which allowed Hahn to try his hand at pastiche madrigals and courtly ballads.
The Etudes latines cast their gaze back still further in time to Classical antiquity. For Hahn, that era seemed to represent the ultimate in purity and sensuality rolled into one. This collection of 10 songs is a real discovery and rivals late Fauré, both in its refinement and mesmerising simplicity of utterance. Apart from a few moments when one would like a more substantial tone, Stephen Varcoe's light baritone suits Hahn very well and he's a refreshingly unaffected interpreter, who sings with grace and feeling. Susan Bickley is better at the larger canvas of a piece like Quand la nuit n'est pas étoilée than the more intimate songs but the most celebrated pair of all Hahn's mélodies goes to Dame Felicity Lott, whose sympathy for the French style could have no happier outlet. Both Si mes vers avaient desailes and L'heure exquise are included here, the latter if not an hour, then at least two and a half minutes that are truly exquisite. They are both beautifully sung and are undisturbed by the discomfort around the top of the stave that sometimes mars Lott's singing elsewhere. At the end, she offers four operetta solos as an encore. Graham Johnson's accompaniments are as sensitive as ever. The piano could have been placed a little closer, but the voices have been well captured.

What treasures are here … The two discs provide an unmissable opportunity to explore a composer who is underrated and overlooked perhaps because he was too modest about himself. There are melodies here which Massenet, Debussy, Fauré and Ravel would have been proud to call their own. No one can fail to have their musical horizon broadened by these discs, which will assuredly come high among my Records of the Year, any year

Songs by Reynaldo Hahn

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