Paris 1913 - L'Offrande lyrique

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Label
Nimbus
Release Date
February 7, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Various
    • PERFORMER
      Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 07, 2025
    • UPC
      0710357645525
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      NI6455
    • LABEL
      Nimbus
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Vocal
    Works ⌄

    1. En regardant ces belles fleurs

      Composer: André Caplet

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    2. 3 Poemes de Lucile de Chateaubriand, Op. 10: No. 3. L'Innocence

      Composer: Darius Milhaud

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    3. À Chloris

      Composer: Reynaldo Hahn

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    4. No. 1. Soupir (Sigh)

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    5. No. 2. Placet futile (Futile Petition)

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    6. No. 3. Surgi de la croupe et du bond (Risen from haunch and spurt)

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    7. 3 Interludes: No. 1. Le pouf

      Composer: Georges Auric

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    8. La route

      Composer: Joseph Guy Ropartz

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    9. No. 1. Le jour n'est plus

      Composer: Louis Durey

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    10. No. 2. Au petit matin

      Composer: Louis Durey

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    11. No. 3. Les nuages s'entassent

      Composer: Louis Durey

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    12. No. 4. Tu es le ciel

      Composer: Louis Durey

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    13. No. 5. Cueille cette frêle fleur

      Composer: Louis Durey

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    14. No. 6. Lumière! Ma lumière!

      Composer: Louis Durey

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    15. La cendre rouge, Op. 146: No. 9. Petite main

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    16. Le jardin clos, Op. 106: No. 7. Il m'est cher, Amour, le bandeau

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    17. Je voudrais être une fleur

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    18. No. 1. Soupir

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    19. No. 2. Placet futile

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    20. No. 3. Éventail

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    21. No. 1. Ne suis qu'un grain de sable

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    22. No. 2. Suis chauve de naissance

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    23. No. 3. Ta parure est secrte

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    24. Clairières dans le ciel: No. 8. Vous m'avez regardé avec toute votre âme (You looked at me with all your soul)

      Composer: Lili Boulanger

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen

    25. Guitares et mandolines

      Composer: Gabriel Grovlez

      Performer: Claire Booth, Andrew Matthews-Owen


The world premiere recording of Durey's L'Offrande lyrique (Op. 4), six songs set to texts by Rabindranath Tagore (recipient of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature) in French translation by Andre Gide, is a highlight of this collection. Musically inspired by the atonality of Arnold Schoenberg's The Book of Hanging Gardens, and often credited as the first piece of free twelve-note technique in French music, L'Offrande lyrique navigates a harmonic language which can hold clarity and vivid colour in Lumiere ! ma lumiere !, or blur into dark heavy clouded gesture in Les nuages s'entassent, effectively supporting Tagore's language. At times, the words seem to muse over seemingly unconnected piano motifs, before meeting- sometimes harmonically, sometimes not-sometimes walking the same path, other times meandering separately again. For Paris 1913 to include a world premiere recording of such important music, written over a century ago, is thrilling, and places Durey firmly alongside his contemporaries in the cafes and salons of pre-war Paris. Far from being overshadowed by the better-known composers in this anthology, these songs stand as a testament to the strength of French melodies of the era. � Andrew Matthews-Owen & Claire Booth