Sarah Laulan, Maciej Pikulski & Hermès Quartet - Les blasphèmes: Mélodies fin-de-siècle (2017) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Les deux ménétriers, W277
02. Danse païenne, Op. 158
03. Un grand sommeil noir
04. Les effarés in C Major [Explicit]
05. Nocturne des cantilènes in C-Sharp Minor
06. Testament in C Minor
07. Violons dans le soir
08. Danse macabre
09. Deux mélodies: I. Pieusement
10. L'amour et le crâne, Op. 20
11. Chanson perpétuelle, Op. 37
12. Le galop
13. Trois mélodies, Op. 4: I. Le désert
14. Mélodies Persanes, Op. 26: VI. Tournoiement
15. Tango stupéfiant


Gathered around Saint-Saëns' Danse macabre, you'll discover an unknown aspect of the French melodie of the Fin-de-siecle. Based on sometimes very intimate text by rimbaud, Baudelaire or Verhaeren, among others, these crepuscular works externalized, one century ago already, the existential malaise of the mankind facing the progress. The rare contralto tone of Sarah Laulan, laureate at prestigious Queen Elisabeth International Competition and at the Geneva International Competition, and associated artist at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, serve the ambiguity of these melodies, that deploy by turns onirism, darkness, but also humor, provocation and cynicism.

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