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Brilliant Classics

Debussy: Melodies / Windsor, Ballista

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Details

Composer
DEBUSSY, CLAUDE
Artist
Windsor, Ballista
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Dec 07, 2018
Catalog #
BRI95741
UPC
5028421957418

About

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.

Tracklist 33 tracks

  1. 1 Nuit d'étoiles 02:53
    Track
    1
    Title
    Nuit d'étoiles
    Duration
    02:53
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  2. 2 Triolet a Philis, "Zephir" 01:48
    Track
    2
    Title
    Triolet a Philis, "Zephir"
    Duration
    01:48
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  3. 3 Pierrot 01:48
    Track
    3
    Title
    Pierrot
    Duration
    01:48
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  4. 4 Clair de lune 02:25
    Track
    4
    Title
    Clair de lune
    Duration
    02:25
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  5. 5 Apparition 04:00
    Track
    5
    Title
    Apparition
    Duration
    04:00
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  6. 6 5 Poèmes de Charles Baudelaire: No. 3. Le jet d'eau 06:33
    Track
    6
    Title
    5 Poèmes de Charles Baudelaire: No. 3. Le jet d'eau
    Duration
    06:33
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  7. 7 Mandoline 01:50
    Track
    7
    Title
    Mandoline
    Duration
    01:50
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  8. 8 No. 1. En sourdine 03:42
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 1. En sourdine
    Duration
    03:42
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  9. 9 No. 2. Fantoches 01:37
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 2. Fantoches
    Duration
    01:37
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  10. 10 No. 3. Clair de lune 03:03
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 3. Clair de lune
    Duration
    03:03
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  11. 11 Fleur des blés 02:20
    Track
    11
    Title
    Fleur des blés
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  12. 12 3 Mélodies: No. 2. Le son du cor 03:30
    Track
    12
    Title
    3 Mélodies: No. 2. Le son du cor
    Duration
    03:30
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  13. 13 Romance 01:49
    Track
    13
    Title
    Romance
    Duration
    01:49
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  14. 14 No. 1. De reve 07:15
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 1. De reve
    Duration
    07:15
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  15. 15 No. 4. De soir 04:35
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 4. De soir
    Duration
    04:35
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  16. 16 3 Mélodies: No. 3. L'échelonnement des haies 01:51
    Track
    16
    Title
    3 Mélodies: No. 3. L'échelonnement des haies
    Duration
    01:51
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  17. 17 No. 1. La flûte de Pan 02:44
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 1. La flûte de Pan
    Duration
    02:44
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  18. 18 No. 2. La chevelure 05:59
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 2. La chevelure
    Duration
    05:59
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  19. 19 No. 3. Le tombeau des naïades 02:43
    Track
    19
    Title
    No. 3. Le tombeau des naïades
    Duration
    02:43
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  20. 20 No. 1. Nuit sans fin 02:20
    Track
    20
    Title
    No. 1. Nuit sans fin
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  21. 21 No. 2. Pourquoi? 04:11
    Track
    21
    Title
    No. 2. Pourquoi?
    Duration
    04:11
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  22. 22 No. 1. C'est l'extase 02:47
    Track
    22
    Title
    No. 1. C'est l'extase
    Duration
    02:47
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  23. 23 No. 2. Il pleure dans mon cœur 03:02
    Track
    23
    Title
    No. 2. Il pleure dans mon cœur
    Duration
    03:02
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  24. 24 No. 3. L'ombre des arbres 02:17
    Track
    24
    Title
    No. 3. L'ombre des arbres
    Duration
    02:17
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  25. 25 No. 4. Chevaux de bois 03:30
    Track
    25
    Title
    No. 4. Chevaux de bois
    Duration
    03:30
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  26. 26 No. 5. Green 02:25
    Track
    26
    Title
    No. 5. Green
    Duration
    02:25
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  27. 27 No. 6. Spleen 02:30
    Track
    27
    Title
    No. 6. Spleen
    Duration
    02:30
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  28. 28 Fêtes galantes, Book 2: No. 3. Colloque sentimental 04:37
    Track
    28
    Title
    Fêtes galantes, Book 2: No. 3. Colloque sentimental
    Duration
    04:37
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  29. 29 Le promenoir des deux amants: No. 3. Je tremble en voyant ton visage 02:04
    Track
    29
    Title
    Le promenoir des deux amants: No. 3. Je tremble en voyant ton visage
    Duration
    02:04
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  30. 30 No. 1. Soupir 02:58
    Track
    30
    Title
    No. 1. Soupir
    Duration
    02:58
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  31. 31 No. 2. Placet futile 02:26
    Track
    31
    Title
    No. 2. Placet futile
    Duration
    02:26
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  32. 32 No. 3. Éventail 02:56
    Track
    32
    Title
    No. 3. Éventail
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista
  33. 33 Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maisons 03:00
    Track
    33
    Title
    Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maisons
    Duration
    03:00
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor, Antonio Ballista