Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Joseph Jongen: Fêtes rouges (Intégrale des mélodies, Vol. 2) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Joseph Jongen: Fêtes rouges (Intégrale des mélodies, Vol. 2) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:33:48 minutes | 1,53 GB | Genre: Classical
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Joseph Jongen is universally considered one of the major Belgian composers of the 20th century. The 150th anniversary of his birth, celebrated in 2023, is the occasion for the rediscovery of an oeuvre that remains, for the most part, oddly underrated. Following on Entrevisions (Musique en Wallonie, MEW 1993, 2019), this CD of Fetes rouges now concludes the first complete recording of his melodies (art songs) for voice and piano. The melodie genre occupies a special place within the chamber music repertoire. Numerous composers contemporary with Jongen, both male and female, tried their hand at it, but few succeeded in raising it to emblematic status to stand comparison with Faure, Debussy or indeed Ravel. In his letters and notebooks Jongen mentions his vocal works only briefly. But listening to the complete corpus of these works, and the stylistic evolution that becomes evident, reveals the enjoyment and obvious care which Jongen brought to each of these miniatures. Carrying on from Entrevisions, the double album of Fetes rouges offers a musical overview of the composer’s various “periods”: French romanticism, post-Wagnerism and Debussy-ism, and a Jongenian synthesis. Each CD focuses on one of his three great song cycles: opus 25 (Entrevisions, MEW 1993, 2019), here we have opus 29 and opus 57.

Tracklist:
1. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: Les Fêtes rouges, Op. 57: No. 1, Épiphanie des exilés (05:26)
2. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: Les Fêtes rouges, Op. 57: No. 2, Le Carnaval des tranchées (05:44)
3. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: Les Fêtes rouges, Op. 57: No. 3, Les Langues de feu (04:51)
4. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: Les Fêtes rouges, Op. 57: No. 4, Release (04:22)
5. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: Les Fêtes rouges, Op. 57: No. 5, Sur la grève (03:46)
6. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: Deux mélodies de Victor Hugo: No. 1, L’extase (03:09)
7. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: Deux mélodies de Victor Hugo: No. 2, J’eus toujours de l’amour (02:13)
8. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: Sonnet (02:11)
9. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: Calmes, aux quais déserts, Op. 54 (04:17)
10. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: Deux mélodies, Op. 45: N° 2, Que dans les cieux (03:10)
11. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: Barcarolle vénitienne (02:15)
12. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: Guitare (02:27)
13. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: Deux mélodies, Op. 45: No. 1, Les Cadrans (03:48)
14. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: Pâquerette (01:25)
15. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: Les Pauvres, Op. 64 No. 3 (02:55)
16. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: Vos yeux (02:31)
17. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: Chanson. Pieds nus (02:24)
18. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: Chanson. Voici venir l’hirondelle (02:19)
19. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: Malheur à vous (03:14)
20. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: 5 Mélodies, Op. 29: No. 1, Lys-Chrysanthèmes (02:03)
21. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: 5 Mélodies, Op. 29: No. 2, Villanelle (03:27)
22. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: 5 Mélodies, Op. 29: No. 3, Tableau gothique (04:10)
23. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: 5 Mélodies, Op. 29: No. 4, Parfum exotique (03:05)
24. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: 5 Mélodies, Op. 29: No. 5, Quand ton sourire me surprit (01:59)
25. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: 2 Mélodies de Sully Prudhomme: No. 1, Les Berceaux (02:20)
26. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: 2 Mélodies de Sully Prudhomme: No. 2, Ressemblance (02:41)
27. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: La Musique, Op. 135 (03:31)
28. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: Le Soir sur la steppe (06:13)
29. Sarah Defrise & Craig White – Jongen: Le Souhait de la violette (01:41)

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