Eugénie Warnier, Marine Thoreau La Salle & Quatuor Les Heures du jour - Soir - Berceuses (mais pas que…) (2018) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Deux mélodies, Op. 83: II. Soir
02. Cinco canciones negras: IV. Cancion de cuna para dormir a un negrito
03. Fünf Lieder, Op. 49: IV. Wiegenlied. Zart bewegt
04. Wiegenlied, D. 498, Op. 98 No. 2: Wiegenlied, D. 498, Op. 98, No. 2
05. Cinq-Mars, CG 10: Nuit Silencieuse (Cantilène)
06. Miroirs brûlants, FP 98: I. Tu vois le feu du soir
07. 7 Chansons grises: V. L'heure exquise
08. Siete canciones populares españolas: V. Nana
09. La courte paille, FP 178: I. Le Sommeil
10. Chants d'Auvergne III: IV. Brezairola
11. Quatre mélodies, Op. 13: I. Apaisement
12. Vingt mélodies, Op. 21: XI. Berceuse (sur un vieil air)
13. Wiegenlied, K. 350
14. A Charm of Lullabies, Op. 41: V. The Nurse's Song
15. Jocelyn, Op. 100: Berceuse de Jocelyn
16. Fünf Lieder, Op. 41: I. Wiegenlied
17. Ma poupée chérie
18. Berceuse japonaise (chant populaire de la région du Chûgoku)
19. La bonne chanson, Op. 61: III. La Lune blanche

The evening, nightfall, are universal themes conducive to writing, to music, to painting; they pass through us and inspire in us contrasting feelings between beauty and darkness, light and shadow, sleep and dreams. The movement towards twilight is a mix of sweetness, warmth, yet also melancholy, for it takes each of us back to our solitude. For some, sleep is synonymous with peacefulness whereas for others it gives rise to worry; everyone hopes, however, that the night will do away with all torment.

This programme brings together songs, lieder and opera arias; if the songs written to the poems of Verlaine or Éluard see their texts take on capital importance, the others are calm, like simple lullabies, the text moving into the background. Some of these works have cradled our childhoods and are very well known, but, nonetheless, this disc also includes many discoveries. All these pieces are beautiful, they touch and appease us, for in the end what do we need to sleep peacefully? A ritual, reassuring habits, a cuddle… a lullaby.

This discographic project is above all the gift of a mother to her children, with the special feature that this mother is an opera singer of international standing: the soprano Eugénie Warnier. Accompanied by the pianist Marine Thoreau La Salle and the quartet Les Heures du jour for the delicate arrangements of certain works, she shares with you, with sincerity and passion, the intimacy of bedtime with her own children. The cherry on the cake is that the whole is delicately enveloped in a velvet casing consisting of original illustrations by Paul Cox and a text by the novelist Yasmina Khadra.

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