Neere: Duparc, Hahn, Chausson / Gens, Manoff

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Release Date
November 13, 2015
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DUPARC HAHN CHAUSSON
    • PERFORMER
      Gens, Manoff
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 13, 2015
    • UPC
      3760014192159
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA215
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Vocal
    Works ⌄

    1. Etudes latines: No. 2. Neere

      Composer: Reynaldo Hahn

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff

    2. Trois jours de vendange

      Composer: Reynaldo Hahn

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff

    3. Chanson triste (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Henri Duparc

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff

    4. Romance de Mignon

      Composer: Henri Duparc

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff

    5. Phidyle (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Henri Duparc

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff

    6. No. 1. Nanny

      Composer: Ernest Chausson

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff

    7. No. 2. Le charme

      Composer: Ernest Chausson

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff

    8. No. 3. Les papillons

      Composer: Ernest Chausson

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff

    9. No. 4. La derniere feuille

      Composer: Ernest Chausson

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff

    10. No. 5. Serenade italienne

      Composer: Ernest Chausson

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff

    11. No. 6. Hebe

      Composer: Ernest Chausson

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff

    12. No. 7. Le colibri

      Composer: Ernest Chausson

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff

    13. Quand je fus pris au pavillon

      Composer: Reynaldo Hahn

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff

    14. Le rossignol des lilas

      Composer: Reynaldo Hahn

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff

    15. À Chloris

      Composer: Reynaldo Hahn

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff

    16. 2 Poemes, Op. 34: No. 1. La chanson bien douce

      Composer: Ernest Chausson

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff

    17. Poeme de l'amour et de la mer (Poem of Love and of the Sea), Op. 19: No. 3. La mort de l'amour: Le temps des lilas

      Composer: Ernest Chausson

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff

    18. No. 1. Lydie

      Composer: Reynaldo Hahn

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff

    19. No. 7. Tyndaris

      Composer: Reynaldo Hahn

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff

    20. Au pays ou se fait la guerre

      Composer: Henri Duparc

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff

    21. L'Invitation au voyage (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Henri Duparc

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff

    22. No. 8. Pholoe

      Composer: Reynaldo Hahn

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff

    23. No. 10. Phyllis

      Composer: Reynaldo Hahn

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff

    24. Le printemps

      Composer: Reynaldo Hahn

      Performer: Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff




Alpha is very proud to welcome this grande dame of lyric art. A great Mozartian, she also excels in Gluck, Berlioz and Offenbach and has sung with the greatest, from Claudio Abbado to Marc Minkowski or Frans Bru?ggen. Her rich discography features numerous repertoires but, up until now, it included only one recording of mélodies, whereas she is unanimously recognized as one of the world’s most eminent ambassadresses of the French art song. With her accomplice Susan Manoff, a connoisseur of vocal music and a tremendously sensitive pianist, she has assembled this programme devoted to songs she loves, mixing a few wellknown gems and others, quite rare, such as this superb Néère, from Reynaldo Hahn’s Muses latines.

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REVIEW:

Gens, as one might expect, is exceptional in this repertoire. Most of the songs are about erotic anticipation and tristesse, and her dark, slightly smoky tone adds to the sensuality of it all. She sings as much off the text as the line, but nothing is nudged or forced in an overtly interventionist way. ‘A Chloris’ is one of the best there is, and Hahn’s ‘Néère’, which gives the disc its title, leaves you open-mouthed with its beauty.

– Gramophone