Invitation Au Voyage: Melodies by Duparc, Jacques de le Presle, Debussy, Hahn & Boulanger

d'Oustrac has a warm, flexible mezzo voice which rises us easily as far as top Gs and which she can float to great effect. Like many French female singers of the past, she has a fastish vibrato...Jourdan's... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 24th Nov 2014
Catalogue No: AMY042
Label: Ambronay
Length: 71 minutes

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Duparc: Mélodies

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Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Pascal Jourdan

I. L'invitation au voyage

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XI. Soupir

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IX. Chanson triste

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XII. La vie antérieure

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Jacques De la Presle: Odelette

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Jacques De la Presle: Voeu

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Jacques De la Presle: Dédette

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Jacques De la Presle: Nocturne

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Debussy: 5 poèmes de Baudelaire, CD 70

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Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Pascal Jourdan

I. Le balcon

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II. Harmonie du soir

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III. Le jet d'eau

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IV. Recueillement

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V. La mort des amants

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Debussy: Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, CD 135

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I. Soupir

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II. Placet futile

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III. Eventail

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Excerpt, Boulanger, L: Clairières dans le ciel

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VI. Si tout ceci n’est qu'un pauvre rêve

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VII. Nous nous aimerons tant

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VIII. Vous m’avez regardé avec toute votre âme

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Hahn, R: La Chère Blessure

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Hahn, R: A Chloris

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Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Pascal Jourdan

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For her third album on Ambronay Editions, Stéphanie d'Oustrac invites us on an intimate journey into the heart of the French melody. After Haydn and the Italian baroque, Stéphanie d'Oustrac continues her adventure with Ambronay Editions, and invites you to travel with her pianist Pascal Jourdan. in a programme built mainly around the famous works of Henri Duparc and Debussy, on poems by Charles Baudelaire and Mallarmé, but also of rarities by their contemporaries Jacques La Presles and Lili Boulanger. Reynaldo Hahn completes this recital with the melodies 'A Chloris' and 'Ma chère blessure'.

Exceptionally fine singing from Stéphanie d'Oustrac and the Jacques de la Presle [d'Oustrac's great uncle, as was Poulenc] tracks are a real find. A heavenly disc.

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February 2015

d'Oustrac has a warm, flexible mezzo voice which rises us easily as far as top Gs and which she can float to great effect. Like many French female singers of the past, she has a fastish vibrato...Jourdan's playing is mostly excellent, bringing out inner parts without blatancy and keeping the pulse going where needed.

January 2015

So much beauty, so much perfumed languor...But never does this disc sink into dreamy sameness - and it emerges as one of the best kind to come out in recent years. The conviction, artistry and intelligent musical sequencing of mezzo-soprano Stephanie d'Oustrac and pianist Pascal Jourdan are much in evidence in this thoroughly first-class package.

March 2015

captivating…D’Oustrac’s insightful singing gives every song a special emotional imprint, revealing its unique expressive properties with a telling restraint that captures the prevailingly autumnal mood to perfection...This is a cherishable collection and a worthy successor to d’Oustrac’s two previous recitals for Ambronay.

12th February 2015

a wonderful disc...d’Oustrac’s voice offers sheer unadulterated pleasure while the playing of Pascal Jourdan is sensitive and refined – and also, when required, he matches the passionate delivery of his singer. Furthermore, these two gifted musicians working together in an evidently seamless partnership interpret these songs with great intelligence.

18th December 2014

D’Oustrac moves between all these strikingly varied musical personalities with tremendous skill and total commitment.

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