Chansons Françaises

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Polished, if somewhat prosaic, performance by Wolfgang Holzmair and Maria Belooussova of an extremely attractive selection of mainly well-known French songs. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, 3 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 2nd Nov 2018
Catalogue No: ELQ4817502
Label: Eloquence
Length: 70 minutes

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Excerpt, Berlioz: Les Nuits d'été, Op. 7

Work length10:40

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Maria Belooussova (piano), Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone)
Recorded: 2012

No. 1: Villanelle

Track length2:10

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No. 4: Absence

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No. 6: L'île inconnue

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Chausson: Le Colibri, Op. 2 No. 7 (de Lisle)

Work length3:24

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Maria Belooussova (piano), Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone)
Recorded: 2012

Chausson: Les Papillons, Op. 2 No. 3 (Gautier)

Work length1:18

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Maria Belooussova (piano), Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone)
Recorded: 2012

Chausson: Sérénade italienne, Op. 2 No. 5 (Bourget)

Work length1:53

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Maria Belooussova (piano), Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone)
Recorded: 2012

Excerpt, Ibert: Chansons (4) de Don Quichotte

Work length2:52

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Maria Belooussova (piano), Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone)
Recorded: 2012

No. 2: Chanson à Dulcinée

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Ravel: Don Quichotte à Dulcinée

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Maria Belooussova (piano), Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone)
Recorded: 2012

No. 1: Chanson romanesque

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No. 2: Chanson épique

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No. 3: Chanson à boire

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Excerpt, Ibert: Chansons (4) de Don Quichotte

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Maria Belooussova (piano), Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone)
Recorded: 2012

4. Chanson de la mort de Don Quichotte

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Debussy: Romances (2)

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Maria Belooussova (piano), Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone)
Recorded: 2012

1. L'ame évaporée

Track length1:57

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2. Les cloches

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Debussy: Trois chansons de France

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Maria Belooussova (piano), Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone)
Recorded: 2012

1. Rondel I: Le temps a laissié son manteau

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2. La grotte

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3. Rondel II: Pour ce que Plaisance est morte

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Duparc: Phidylé

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Maria Belooussova (piano), Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone)
Recorded: 2012

Duparc: Lamento

Work length3:24

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Maria Belooussova (piano), Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone)
Recorded: 2012

Duparc: La Vie antérieure

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Maria Belooussova (piano), Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone)
Recorded: 2012

Anthiome: Mélodies (2)

Work length6:33

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Maria Belooussova (piano), Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone)
Recorded: 2012

1. Papillon bleu

Track length3:38

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2. Mignonne, puisque c'est l'automne

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Excerpt, Fauré: 3 Songs, Op. 23

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Maria Belooussova (piano), Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone)
Recorded: 2012

1. Les berceaux

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Fauré: L'horizon chimérique, Op. 118

Work length8:19

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Maria Belooussova (piano), Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone)
Recorded: 2012

1. La mer est infinie

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2. Je me suis embarqué

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3. Diane, Séléné

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4. Vaisseaux, nous vous aurons aimés

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A BRAND NEW RECORDING FROM WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR. ‘For me,’ Wolfgang Holzmair once remarked, ‘the song is a continuation of speech – a higher form of expressing words and thoughts.’ Over the course of three decades, the Austrian baritone has been true to his own belief in a stream of recitals and recordings of the Lieder, chanson and art-song repertoire. As recently as 2012 his album of Mahler’s songs from Des knaben Wunderhorn was welcomed in Gramophone for his superb word-painting, ‘replacing sheer vocal power with more Lieder-friendly qualities of agility, precision and nuance. Poetic narrative is everywhere apparent.’ Such qualities lend distinction to his brand new album of ‘Chansons françaises’ released on Eloquence. Recorded in Vienna in 2012, Holzmair is partnered here by the Russian pianist Maria Belooussova, who specialised in chamber-music partnerships with renowned instrumentalists and singers, among them Ivry Gitlis and Joseph Silverstein. Holzmair’s personal selection focuses on the high-noon of the French art-song tradition in the latter half of the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth, moving between the exquisite melancholy of Théophile Gautier as set by Berlioz (in Les Nuits d’été) and Duparc, and the pastis-dry wit of Alexandre Arnoux, who found his musical match in Jacques Ibert (Chansons de Don Quichotte). Holzmair also encompasses the visionary sensibility of Faure in L’Horizon chimérique, the sinuous opulence of Ernest Chausson (setting Gautier again in Les Papillons) and the folky simplicity of the Trois chansons de France by Debussy. Alongside an undoubted high-point in the entire French song repertoire (Ravel’s last completed work, Don Quichotte à Dulcinée), Holzmair has also unearthed a genuine rarity in the person of Eugène Anthiome (1836–1916), whose two songs recorded here for the first time belong to the Parisian salon, sweet and suave in the manner of Reynaldo Hahn.

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January 2019

Polished, if somewhat prosaic, performance by Wolfgang Holzmair and Maria Belooussova of an extremely attractive selection of mainly well-known French songs.

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