Christina Baader, Gert Hecher - Monde Et Mystère - Lieder By Henri Duparc and Gabriel Fauré (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Chanson triste
02. L’Invitation au voyage
03. Extase
04. Soupir
05. Romance de Mignon
06. Élégie
07. Lamento
08. Testament
09. En sourdine
10. Les berceaux
11. Ici-bas!
12. Tristesse
13. Après un rêve
14. Spleen
15. Prison
16. Au cimetière
17. Automne
18. Nell
19. Au bord de l’eau
20. C’est l’extase
21. Larmes
22. Fleur jetée
23. Tendresse

Stuttgart-born mezzo-soprano Christina Baader has been a much sought-after musician for many years, not only as an opera singer and soloist, but is also an internationally successful visual artist. To mark the 100th anniversary of Gabriel Fauré’s death, Christina Baader and Gert Hecher, piano, are presenting an album by the title Monde et Mystére with a selection of his songs as well as those by Henri Duparc, who also played a significant role in establishing an independent French art of song. The expressive songs are based on poems by famous French poets such as Paul Verlaine, Charles Baudelaire, Armand Silvestre, Théophile Gautier, René-François Sully-Prudhomme and Jean Lahor. Together with Gert Hecher, a specialist in the restoration of historical keyboard instruments, two grand pianos from 1868 and 1879, respectively, from the famous Érard piano manufactory in Paris, which at the time had a similar status to Steinway & Sons today, were chosen to best emphasize the different tonal and stylistic elements of the works of the two composers.

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