Tristan Raes

Cyrille Dubois, Tristan Raës – Louis Beydts: Mélodies & Songs (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:51 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
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Cyrille Dubois is unstoppable: after two albums dedicated to Liszt and the Boulanger sisters, both acclaimed by the critics, and a flamboyant complete set of Fauré songs, the tenor is back to his preferred repertoire, the French art-song. He reunites with his accomplice, pianist Tristan Raës, to bring the Bordeaux composer Louis Beydts (1895-1953) out of oblivion, most of whose pieces are recorded here for the first time.
From these miniatures, Cyrille Dubois draws the sap of the musician’s art: a pure product of French hedonism, refined and elegant, with a generous vocality… but also daring, for Beydts forbids himself nothing: echoes of jazz and light music, of Hahn or Fauré, polymodality and polytonality, his melodies traverse everything with supreme freedom, between fantasy, humour and contemplation.
By transporting us into this singular universe, Cyrille Dubois establishes himself as an invaluable performer of the repertoire and a pioneer of French music, with an uncommon mastery of the combination of word and music.

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Cyrille Dubois & Tristan Raës – Lili et Nadia Boulanger: Mélodies (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:09 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
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After the very recent publication by tenor Nicolas Phan and pianist Myra Huang, this is another album dedicated to sisters Lili and Nadia Boulanger that sheds more light on their talent. If Lili Boulanger’s work has been starting to emerge from obscurity in recent years, that of her sister Nadia’s has remained largely unknown, partly her own fault as she stopped writing after the premature passing of her sister, whose talent for writing she thought was superior. Nadia Boulanger instead forged a name for herself through education and the discovery of new works.

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