Nadia & Lili Boulanger: Les Heures Claires: The Complete Songs

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Pianist Anne de Fornel is the impressive constant factor, capturing the refined emotional nuances of these exquisite works, while mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot takes the lion’s share of the... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 24th Feb 2023
Catalogue No: HMM90235658
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

24th February 2023
Gramophone Awards

2023

Shortlisted - Song
Presto Recordings of the Year

Finalist 2023
International Classical Music Awards

2024

Winner - Vocal Music
BBC Music Magazine Awards

2024

Shortlisted - Vocal

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Boulanger, N: Mon coeur

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Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Écoutez la chanson bien douce

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Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Soleils couchants

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Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Allons voir sur le lac d’argent

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Lucile Richardot, Stéphane Degout, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Versailles

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Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Un grand sommeil noir

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Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Ilda

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Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Mon âme

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Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Poème d’amour

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Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Cantique

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Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Trois pièces for cello and piano

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Emmanuelle Bertrand, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Heures ternes

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Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Chanson

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Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Soir d'hiver

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Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Vers la vie nouvelle

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Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Doute

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Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Au bord de la route

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Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: J'ai frappe

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Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Extase

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Stéphane Degout, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Aubade

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Stéphane Degout, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Désespérance

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Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Élégie

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Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: La sirène

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Raquel Camarinha, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: O schwöre nicht

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Stéphane Degout, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Was will die einsame Thräne

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Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Ach, die Augen sind es wieder

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Stéphane Degout, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Priere

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Raquel Camarinha, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Les heures claires

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Lucile Richardot, Stéphane Degout, Anne de Fornel

I. Le Ciel en nuit s'est déplié

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II. Avec mes sens, avec mon cœur

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III. Vous m'avez dit

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IV. Que tes yeux clairs, tes yeux d'été

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V. C'était en juin

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VI. Ta bonté

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VII. Roses de juin

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VIII. S'il arrive jamais

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Boulanger, N: Petites Pièces pour Piano

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Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Le beau navire

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Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: La mer

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Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: L'echange

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Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Le Couteau

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Stéphane Degout, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, N: Chanson

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Stéphane Degout, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, L: Pièce pour violon et piano

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Sarah Nemtanu, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, L: Attente

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Stéphane Degout, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, L: Reflets

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Stéphane Degout, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, L: Nocturne

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Sarah Nemtanu, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, L: Le Retour

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Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, L: Introduction et cortege

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Sarah Nemtanu, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, L: Clairières dans le ciel

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Raquel Camarinha, Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

I. Elle était descendue au bas de la prairie

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II. Elle est gravement gaie

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III. Parfois, je suis triste

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IV. Un poète disait

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V. Au pied de mon lit

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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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IX. Les lilas qui avaient fleuri

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X. Deux ancolies

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XI. Parce que j'ai souffert

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XII. Je garde une médaille d'elle

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XIII. Demain fera un an

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Boulanger, L: Dans l'immense tristesse

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Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, L: D'un matin de printemps

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Sarah Nemtanu, Anne de Fornel

Boulanger, L: D'un soir triste

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Emmanuelle Bertrand, Anne de Fornel

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Recording of the Week, Nadia & Lili Boulanger - Les heures claires

24th February 2023

French pianist Anne de Fornel is joined by Lucile Richardot, Stéphane Degout and Raquel Camarinha for this spellbinding anthology of the two sisters' complete songs, including a number of world premiere recordings.

Nadia and Lili Boulanger, each in their own way, made a lasting impact on the musical world of the Twentieth Century.

Sometimes luminous and full of hope, sometimes more sombre, all their works testify to a poignant humanity.

Going beyond the mélodies, Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel and the other artists assembled for this edition offer a multi-faceted portrait of the two composers, a form of musical narrative containing pieces that have never been published or recorded before.

Reviews

April 2023

Pianist Anne de Fornel is the impressive constant factor, capturing the refined emotional nuances of these exquisite works, while mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot takes the lion’s share of the 55 songs. Beguiling from her first entry in Nadia’s ‘Mon coeur’, she is convincing throughout.

Nov/Dec 2023

The singing from all three performers is uniformly excellent on this enterprising set, which features a handful of world premiere recordings. Anne de Fornel provides rich, impressive, and imaginative support for her singers, as well as for the several chamber pieces, which I have to say are splendid.

April 2023

an insightful, historically significant tour of two of 20th-century France’s great musical minds.

24th February 2023

The lion’s share of the songs is here assigned to the French mezzo Lucile Richardot, who mines every nuance of these texts (by poets including Verlaine, Maeterlinck, Samain and Silvestre) for all their worth. The pianist throughout is the ever-imaginative Anne de Fornel, who makes much of the almost minimalist ostinatos and rippling arpeggio motifs which Nadia so favoured and also rises superbly to the challenges of the more virtuosic writing... it all adds up to a classy celebration of the sisters’ legacies.

19th March 2023

Both sisters’ writing for voice is steeped in the tradition of Fauré and Debussy, but they are wont to roam. Lili’s is perhaps the more tempestuous and, conversely, contained (the song cycle Clairières dans le ciel is breathtaking), but Nadia’s, to texts by Victor Hugo, Paul Verlaine, Maurice Maeterlinck and others, can be tantalising…Fascinating.

International Classical Music Awards 2024

Thanks to excellent performances, we can reconstruct the separate fates of Lili, a talent who died young, and Nadia, who as a teacher left an indelible mark on 20th century music, and whose school (la boulangerie) was a point of reference for all musicians going to Paris.

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