Karine Deshayes: Après un rêve
Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano), Arnaud Thorette (violin), Antoine Pierlot (cello), Johan Farjot (piano)
Ensemble Contraste
It's nicely done, for the most part. Deshayes has a light-ish meozzo with an appealing shimmer in her upper registers and warm chest tones, used sparingly but to telling effect...The playing...
Karine Deshayes: Après un rêve
Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano), Arnaud Thorette (violin), Antoine Pierlot (cello), Johan Farjot (piano)
Ensemble Contraste
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It's nicely done, for the most part. Deshayes has a light-ish meozzo with an appealing shimmer in her upper registers and warm chest tones, used sparingly but to telling effect...The playing...
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This recording from French mezzo-soprano Karine Deshayes and Ensemble Contraste explores familiar tunes of French Romanticism. Featuring works from Berlioz, Fauré, Gounod, Massenet and more, this delicious programme paints a picture of music and life in the Parisian salons. From romance to melody composers of the century took their inspiration from the best writers of their time. Victor Hugo (Berlioz), Leconte de Lisle (Massenet), Lamartine (Gounod et Godard), Anna de Noailles (St Saëns)… 'La Captive', for instance, is a poem from Victor Hugo that comes from Les Orientales. In April 1847, upon announcing the arrival of the composer, a Russian newspaper stated : "Berlioz is within our walls, he truly is the Victor Hugo of French music".
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Awards and reviews
September 2015
It's nicely done, for the most part. Deshayes has a light-ish meozzo with an appealing shimmer in her upper registers and warm chest tones, used sparingly but to telling effect...The playing is consistently beautiful, and the spattering of purely instrumental numbers really allows the Ensemble Contraste to shine.
26th July 2015
Deshayes sings gorgeously
