Mélodies for Baritone & Piano

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	3 Melodies - No. 1. La mer est plus belle
	3 Melodies - No. 2. Le son du cor
	3 Melodies - No. 3. L'echelonnement des haies
	Le galop - Le galop
	Lamento - Lamento
	Elegie - Elegie
	La vie anterieure - La vie anterieure
	Melodies persanes, Op. 26 - No. 5. Au cimetiere
	Melodies persanes, Op. 26 - No. 6. Tournoiement
	L'ile heureuse - L'ile heureuse
	Chanson pour Jeanne - Chanson pour Jeanne
	Les cigales - Les cigales
	3 Jours de vendange - 3 Jours de vendange
	Cimetiere de campagne - Cimetiere de campagne
	Histoires naturelles (Natural Histories) - No. 1. Le paon (The Peacock)
	Histoires naturelles (Natural Histories) - No. 2. Le grillon (The Cricket)
	Histoires naturelles (Natural Histories) - No. 3. Le cygne (The Swan)
	Histoires naturelles (Natural Histories) - No. 4. Le martin-pecheur (The Kingfisher)
	Histoires naturelles (Natural Histories) - No. 5. Le pintade (The Guinea-Fowl)
	3 Ballades de Villon - No. 1. Ballade de Villon a s'amye
	3 Ballades de Villon - No. 2. Ballade que Villon fait a la requeste de sa mere
	3 Ballades de Villon - No. 3. Ballades des femmes de Paris

Album Summary

Performers

• Stéphane Degout (Voice)
• Hélène Lucas (Piano)

Composers

• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937)
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
• Emmanuel Chabrier (1841 - 1894)
• Henri Duparc (1848 - 1933)
• Reynaldo Hahn (1875 - 1947)

Notes & Reviews:

"naïve classique is pleased to present the their first release featuring art song interpretations by internationally-acclaimed French baritone Stephane Degout. Since his triumphant debut as Papageno at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1999, Mr. Degout has appeared at major opera houses around the world, including the the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the Glyndebourne Festival. The recording featured gems of the French mélodie repertoire. Baritone Stéphane Degout had already featured on Brahms' German Requiem and Fauré's Requiem by Accentus. The program is a selection of various French composers that composed marvels that did not get the same notoriety as Ravel, Debussy or Fauré. Stéphane Degout is performing in several major opera performances in 2010-2011, beside Sir Simon Rattle, Magdalena Kozena, Juan Diego Flórez, Joyce DiDonato, Diana Damrau... "

"[there's] no mistaking the quality of his sensual, yet gritty voice, or of his artistry...Degout has an exceptional, if unobtrusive way of projecting a text, and you're conscious - as in the various settings of Baudelaire, Verlaine and Gautier - of listening to great poetry as well as great music...There's wonderfully fluid playing from his accompanist Hélène Lucas, too." -The Guardian*****

"The voice - a natural for Pelléas, one would think - responds rapturously to Debussy and Verlaine's submarine wonders" - Gramophone

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Salle Varèse, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musiq (07/2010).

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Works Details

Debussy, Claude : La mer est plus belle, song for voice & piano, L. 81/1

• Performers: Hélène Lucas (Piano); Stéphane Degout (Voice)
• Running Time: 2 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1881

Debussy, Claude : Le son du cor s'afflige vers les bois, song for voice & piano, L. 81/2

• Performers: Hélène Lucas (Piano); Stéphane Degout (Voice)
• Running Time: 3 min. 13 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1891

Debussy, Claude : L'échelonnement des haies, song for voice & piano, L. 81/3

• Performers: Hélène Lucas (Piano); Stéphane Degout (Voice)
• Running Time: 1 min. 46 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1891

Duparc, Henri : Le Galop ("Agite, bon cheval"), song for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op. 2/5

• Performers: Hélène Lucas (Piano); Stéphane Degout (Voice)
• Running Time: 3 min. 27 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1869

Duparc, Henri : Lamento

• Performers: Stéphane Degout (Voice); Hélène Lucas (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 12 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1883

Duparc, Henri : Elégie ("Oh! ne murmurez pas son nom!"), song for voice & piano (or orchestra)

• Performers: Stéphane Degout (Voice); Hélène Lucas (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1874

Duparc, Henri : La vie antérieure

• Performers: Stéphane Degout (Voice); Hélène Lucas (Piano)
• Running Time: 5 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1884

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921) : Mélodies persanes :: Au cimetière

• Performers: Stéphane Degout (Voice); Hélène Lucas (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 1 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1870

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921) : Mélodies persanes :: Tournoiement, songe d'opium

• Performers: Stéphane Degout (Voice); Hélène Lucas (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1870

Chabrier, Emmanuel : Mélodies (6) for voice & piano :: L'Ile heureuse

• Performers: Hélène Lucas (Piano); Stéphane Degout (Voice)
• Running Time: 3 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1890

Chabrier, Emmanuel : Chanson pour Jeanne, for voice & piano

• Performers: Hélène Lucas (Piano); Stéphane Degout (Voice)
• Running Time: 4 min. 1 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1886

Chabrier, Emmanuel : Mélodies (6) for voice & piano :: Les Cigales

• Performers: Stéphane Degout (Voice); Hélène Lucas (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1890

Hahn, Reynaldo : Mélodies (20), Volume 1

• Performers: Stéphane Degout (Voice); Hélène Lucas (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 29 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1891

Hahn, Reynaldo : Cimetière de campagne, for voice & piano (from "Melodies, Book I")

• Performers: Hélène Lucas (Piano); Stéphane Degout (Voice)
• Running Time: 3 min. 5 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1893

Ravel, Maurice : Histoires naturelles

• Performers: Hélène Lucas (Piano); Stéphane Degout (Voice)
• Running Time: 16 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1906

Debussy, Claude : Ballade de Villon à s'Amye ("Faulse beauté qui tant me couste cher"), song for voice & piano, L. 119

• Performers: Hélène Lucas (Piano); Stéphane Degout (Voice)
• Running Time: 4 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1910

Debussy, Claude : Ballades (3) de François Villon

• Performers: Stéphane Degout (Voice); Hélène Lucas (Piano)
• Running Time: 4 min. 34 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1910

Debussy, Claude : Ballade des femmes de Paris ("Quoy qu'on tient belles langagières"), song for voice & piano, L. 119/

• Performers: Stéphane Degout (Voice); Hélène Lucas (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1910