Sandrine Piau – Chimère (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Sandrine Piau – Chimère (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:27 minutes | 914 MB | Genre: Classical
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The least that we can say here is that soprano Sandrine Piau refuses to be pigeonholed: she cheerfully steers a course from the German romanticism of Schumann, Wolf or Loewe; to Debussy, all the way to the near-Broadway work of André Prévin, by way of Poulenc, Gurney and Samuel Barber… Her crystal-clear voice rejects any vocal Italicisms (no glissandos, no cooing, no notes attacked from below, no parasitic diphthongs, and a carefully-controlled vibrato), so that we get nothing but the music – and the words of course, comprehensible regardless of the language. Her long experience of baroque song – and the world of Mozart, in which she excels – has given her magnificent rigour, but her broad repertoire, which she deploys here, is full of power, from the suavest pianissimo to the most imposing fortissimo. As for pianist Susan Manoff, she simply offers the best possible musical accompaniment to the repertoires of the Lied, of French mélodie, romance and art song: and she is especially unmissable here, alongside one of today’s greatest French voices.

Tracklist:
01. Sandrine Piau – Lieder und Balladen: Ach neige, du Schmerzenreiche (04:11)
02. Sandrine Piau – Lieder und Gesänge aus “Wilhelm Meister”, Op. 98a: I. Mignon “Kennst du das Land?” (04:14)
03. Sandrine Piau – Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 127: II. Dein Angesicht (02:13)
04. Sandrine Piau – Myrthen, op. 25: VII. Die Lotosblume (01:44)
05. Sandrine Piau – Fetes galantes I: Fêtes Galantes I, CD 86: I. En sourdine (02:46)
06. Sandrine Piau – Fetes galantes I: Fêtes Galantes I, CD 86: II. Fantoches (01:24)
07. Sandrine Piau – Fetes galantes I: Fêtes Galantes I, CD 86: III. Clair de lune (02:44)
08. Sandrine Piau – Verschwiegene Liebe: Verschwiegene Liebe (02:28)
09. Sandrine Piau – Mörike Lieder: Nixe Binsefuß (02:19)
10. Sandrine Piau – Mörike Lieder: 7. Das verlassene Mägdlein (02:53)
11. Sandrine Piau – Mörike Lieder: 38. Lied vom Winde (02:45)
12. Sandrine Piau – 5 Elizabethan Songs: IV. Sleep (03:08)
13. Sandrine Piau – Heart! We Will Forget Him: Heart! We Will Forget Him (03:09)
14. Sandrine Piau – Banalites, FP 107: I. Chanson d’Orkenise (01:27)
15. Sandrine Piau – Banalites, FP 107: II. Hôtel (01:38)
16. Sandrine Piau – Banalites, FP 107: III. Fagnes de Wallonie (01:27)
17. Sandrine Piau – Banalites, FP 107: IV. Voyage à Paris (00:57)
18. Sandrine Piau – Banalites, FP 107: V. Sanglots (04:18)
19. Sandrine Piau – Despite and Still, Op. 41: IV. Solitary Hotel (02:36)
20. Sandrine Piau – Metamorphoses, FP 121: C’est ainsi que tu es (02:28)
21. Sandrine Piau – Three Dickinson Songs: As Imperceptibly as Grief (03:13)
22. Sandrine Piau – Three Dickinson Songs: Will There Really Be a Morning? (01:30)
23. Sandrine Piau – Three Dickinson Songs: Good Morning Midnight (02:45)

Personnel:
Sandrine Piau, soprano
Susan Manoff, piano

Composers:
Baksa, Robert (b.1938)
Barber, Samuel (1910-81)
Debussy, Claude Achille (1862-1918)
Gurney, Ivor Bertie (1890-1937)
Loewe, Carl (1796-1869)
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963)
Previn, André (b.1929)
Schumann, Robert (1810-56)
Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903)

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