Debussy: Melodies / Windsor, Ballista

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
December 7, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DEBUSSY, CLAUDE
    • PERFORMER
      Windsor, Ballista
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      December 07, 2018
    • UPC
      5028421957418
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI95741
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Nuit d'étoiles

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    2. Triolet a Philis, "Zephir"

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    3. Pierrot

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    4. Clair de lune

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    5. Apparition

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    6. 5 Poèmes de Charles Baudelaire: No. 3. Le jet d'eau

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    7. Mandoline

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    8. No. 1. En sourdine

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    9. No. 2. Fantoches

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    10. No. 3. Clair de lune

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    11. Fleur des blés

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    12. 3 Mélodies: No. 2. Le son du cor

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    13. Romance

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    14. No. 1. De reve

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    15. No. 4. De soir

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    16. 3 Mélodies: No. 3. L'échelonnement des haies

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    17. No. 1. La flûte de Pan

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    18. No. 2. La chevelure

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    19. No. 3. Le tombeau des naïades

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    20. No. 1. Nuit sans fin

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    21. No. 2. Pourquoi?

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    22. No. 1. C'est l'extase

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    23. No. 2. Il pleure dans mon cœur

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    24. No. 3. L'ombre des arbres

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    25. No. 4. Chevaux de bois

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    26. No. 5. Green

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    27. No. 6. Spleen

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    28. Fêtes galantes, Book 2: No. 3. Colloque sentimental

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    29. Le promenoir des deux amants: No. 3. Je tremble en voyant ton visage

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    30. No. 1. Soupir

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    31. No. 2. Placet futile

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    32. No. 3. Éventail

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista

    33. Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maisons

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista


Debussy wrote songs throughout his career, beginning at the age of 18 with Nuit d’étoiles, with which this collection also begins. Most of his vocal output was inspired by the singers he encountered as a young man in the fashionable salons of fin-de-siecle Paris, and in particular the soprano Blanche Vasnier: from that time, Debussy’s songs resembled an amorous diary of dreams and desires of infinite sweetness, entrusted to a voice capable of the utmost seduction. The epilogue to his love story with Vasnier is heard in Apparition, after which Lorna Windsor moves to the years of Debussy in Rome, and in particular his sumptuous settings of Baudelaire. There follow the much more elusive settings of Verlaine and Rimbaud, dating from his ‘impressionist’ and even ‘post-impressionist’ late years, and often inspired by his encounter with the soprano Mary Garden, the first Mélisande. Lorna Windsor has established a reputation as a specialist in contemporary music: her catalogue on Brilliant Classics includes the songs with piano by John Cage (8850) and a more recent, wide-ranging album of solo-vocal music by Feldman, Kagel, Kurtág and others. She also has considerable experience in French repertoire, having studied with the doyen of French baritones, Gérard Souzay, and given performances in France of Offenbach and Satie, as well as recording the songs of Satie. A further point of interest to the album concerns the piano used by Antonio Ballista: a 1923 Pleyel. Ballista himself was born just 13 years after the piano was made, and for more than half a century he formed half of one of the best-known and most recorded piano duos of their time, in partnership with fellow Italian Bruno Canino. Though he has accompanied many eminent singers such as Cathy Berberian, Anna Caterina Antonacci and Kim Criswell, his work with singers has been very rarely represented on record, making this album a collector’s item in Ballista’s distinguished career as well as a ravishingly idiomatic record of French song.