Carolyn Sampson & Joseph Middleton
Verlaine: Fêtes galantes
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Recorded live at TivoliVredenburg / Hertz, Utrecht, 27 August 2022
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About this concert
The aristocracy’s dreamlike parties in the country were a rewarding theme within the field of Rococo painting. This fête galante style, with Antoine Watteau as its standard-bearer, inspired French poet Paul Verlaine a century later to write his iconic book of poetry Fêtes galantes. British star soprano Carolyn Sampson and her regular pianist Joseph Middleton present an anthology from Verlaine's collection in settings by composers including Debussy, Fauré and Hahn.
Programme
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Claude Debussy
Fêtes galantes
I. En sourdine
II. Fantoches
III. Clair de lune
***1862-1918 -
Gabriel Fauré
Clair de lune, Op. 46 no. 2
1845-1924 -
Maurice Ravel
Sur l'herbe
1875-1937 -
Ernest Chausson
Apaisement, Op. 13 no. 1
***1855-1899 -
Poldowski
Cythere
En sourdine
Colombine
L’heure exquise
Mandoline
***1879-1932 -
Joseph Szulc
Clair de lune
1875-1956 -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Le vent dans la plaine
1835-1921 -
Reynaldo Hahn
Tous deux
L’heure exquise
(from: 7 Chansons grises, 1891)
***1874-1947 -
Claude Debussy
Ariettes oubliées, L. 60
I. C’est l’extase langoureuse
II. Il pleure dans mon cœur
III. L’ombre des arbres
IV. Chevaux de bois
V. Aquarelles I: Green
VI. Aquarelles II: Spleen
Musicians
- Carolyn Sampson soprano
- Joseph Middleton piano
About the performers
A few years ago Gramophone magazine called Carolyn Sampson 'by far the best British soprano in early music'. She is considered a specialist in the music of Handel, Bach and Monteverdi. Her numerous concerts in Europe include performances with orchestras such as The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The English Concert, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Freiburger Barockorchester and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century.