En sourdine

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Alpha
Release Date
October 9, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Naouri, Loiseau
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 09, 2020
    • UPC
      3760014196287
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA628
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Ici-bas!, Op. 8, No. 3 (arr. L. Naouri and F. Loiseau for voice and guitar)

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Laurent Naouri, Frédéric Loiseau

    2. Les Berceaux, Op. 23 No. 1 (arr. L. Naouri and F. Loiseau for voice and guitar)

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Laurent Naouri, Frédéric Loiseau

    3. Chanson d'amour, Op. 27, No. 1 (arr. L. Naouri and F. Loiseau for voice and guitar)

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Laurent Naouri, Frédéric Loiseau

    4. 5 Melodies de Venise, Op. 58: No. 2. En sourdine (arr. L. Naouri and F. Loiseau for voice and guitar)

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Laurent Naouri, Frédéric Loiseau

    5. Dernier poème, FP 163 (arr. L. Naouri and F. Loiseau for voice and guitar)

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Laurent Naouri, Frédéric Loiseau

    6. Mai, Op. 1, No. 2 (arr. L. Naouri and F. Loiseau for voice and guitar)

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Laurent Naouri, Frédéric Loiseau

    7. Prison, Op. 83, No. 1 (arr. L. Naouri and F. Loiseau for voice and guitar)

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Laurent Naouri, Frédéric Loiseau

    8. Spleen, Op. 51, No. 3 (arr. L. Naouri and F. Loiseau for voice and guitar)

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Laurent Naouri, Frédéric Loiseau

    9. 2 Poèmes de Louis Aragon, FP 122: No. 2. Fêtes galantes (arr. L. Naouri and F. Loiseau for voice and guitar)

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Laurent Naouri, Frédéric Loiseau

    10. Le promenoir des deux amants: No. 3. Je tremble en voyant ton visage (arr. L. Naouri and F. Loiseau for voice and guitar)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Laurent Naouri, Frédéric Loiseau

    11. Le jet d'eau (arr. L. Naouri and F. Loiseau for voice and guitar)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Laurent Naouri, Frédéric Loiseau

    12. Poème d'un jour, Op. 21: No. 2. Toujours (arr. L. Naouri and F. Loiseau for voice and guitar)

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Laurent Naouri, Frédéric Loiseau

    13. Le secret, Op. 23, No. 3 (arr. L. Naouri and F. Loiseau for voice and guitar)

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Laurent Naouri, Frédéric Loiseau

    14. Mazurka, FP 145 (arr. L. Naouri and F. Loiseau for voice and guitar)

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Laurent Naouri, Frédéric Loiseau

    15. En prière (arr. L. Naouri and F. Loiseau for voice and guitar)

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Laurent Naouri, Frédéric Loiseau


We are familiar with the flamboyant baritone Laurent Naouri, a distinguished exponent of the four villains in Les Contes d'Hoffmann from Paris to The Metropolitan Opera New York and an unforgettable Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande. But here it is a much more intimate Naouri, the lover of melodies by Faure, Debussy and Poulenc, who invites us to a rendezvous: 'Here is a repertory I've been performing for more than thirty years, sometimes not without a certain frustration: for how can you achieve the intimacy suggested by a poem like Baudelaire's Le Jet d'eau- it almost pillow talk- when the vocal style forces you to "project" the voice? Although classical art song authorizes you to sing piano or pianissimo, it's still inconceivable to whisper in the listener's ear. To whisper, you need a microphone, and there we leave the world of the melodie and enter the world of "chanson," as that term was understood at the beginning of the radio era. I had already been thinking about these questions for a few years when I met the jazz guitarist Frederic Loiseau. We started off our collaboration with Les Berceaux, a melodie that Yves Montand had already sung in a "chanson" style. Encouraged by the result, we looked for other songs that we felt could benefit from this intimate treatment."