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1. Ici-bas! Op. 8 No. 3 (ID)...... [1.36] 2. Au bord de l’eau, Op. 8 No. 1 (AM)...... [2.48] 3. Chant d’automne, Op. 5 No. 1 (IB)...... [3.37] 4. Vocalise 13 (LA)...... [1.10] 5. Tristesse d’Olympio (JC)...... [4.19] In sixty years of songwriting, between 1861 and 1921, Fauré’s craft understandably 6. Automne, Op. 18 No. 3 (IB)...... [2.36] developed in richness and subtlety. But many elements remained unchanged: among them, 7. Clair de lune, Op. 46 No. 2 (AM)...... [3.15] a distaste for pretentious pianism (‘Oh pianists, pianists, pianists, when will you consent to 8. Spleen, Op. 51 No. 3 (AM)...... [2.11] hold back your implacable virtuosity !!!!’ he wrote, to a pianist, in 1919) and a loving care 9. Les roses d’Ispahan, Op. 39 No. 4 (JK)...... [3.15] for prosody – not infrequently he ‘improved’ on the poet for musical reasons. Above all, he 10. La rose (Ode anacreontique), Op. 51 No. 4 (TO)...... [2.33] remained his own man. Henri Duparc was a close friend, but his songs, dubbed by Fauré’s 11. Le parfum impérissable, Op. 76 No. 1 (LA)...... [2.36] pupil Ravel ‘imperfect but works of genius’, had only a passing impact on Fauré’s own. 12. Soir, Op. 83 No. 2 (LA)...... [2.04] Where Duparc embraces the grand gesture, Fauré for the most part prefers the suggestion, 13. Chanson de Mélisande, Op. 80 (LA)...... [2.56] the nuance. In this respect, if in no other, his music resembles that of Erik Satie: it tends to 14. Sérénade du Bourgeois gentilhomme (TO)...... [1.27] speaks to each of us singly in familiar tones. Therefore recording is an ideal medium for it, free of all the material distractions of dress, gesture or facial exercise. 15. Ave Maria, Op. 93 (LK)...... [1.58] 16. Vocalise-étude (SK)...... [3.21] Lorna Anderson (LA) Fauré’s preference for suggestion and nuance may seem to sit uneasily with his choice of 17. Le don silencieux, Op. 92 (TO)...... [2.09] Isobel Buchanan (IB) Victor Hugo as the poet for his six earliest songs (one thinks of André Gide’s famous reply 18. Chanson, Op. 94 (SC)...... [1.15] John Chest (JC) to question of who was France’s greatest poet: ‘Victor Hugo, hélas !’), but the composer, 19. Vocalise 24 (LA)...... [1.37] Sarah Connolly (SC) even at the age of sixteen, was careful over what he set. By 1861 he had been a pupil for Iestyn Davies (ID) seven years at the Ecole Niedermeyer in Paris which set out primarily to train church Mirages, Op. 113 (WD) William Dazeley (WD) musicians. However, in that year Saint-Saëns joined the staff, bringing with him a a breath 20. I. Cygne sur l’eau...... [3.06] Janis Kelly (JK) of modernist air nourished on such dangerous influences as Liszt and Wagner, and he and 21. II. Reflets dans l’eau...... [3.57] Louise Kemény (LK) Fauré became lifelong friends. 22. III. Jardin nocturne...... [2.48] Ann Murray (AM) Not that the Hungarian or the German show up in these early Fauré songs. In 1865, 23. IV. Danseuse...... [2.20] Thomas Oliemans (TO) possibly while still employed as an organist in Rennes, he reduced the 38 stanzas of Hugo’s

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1. Ici-bas! Op. 8 No. 3 (ID)...... [1.36] 2. Au bord de l’eau, Op. 8 No. 1 (AM)...... [2.48] 3. Chant d’automne, Op. 5 No. 1 (IB)...... [3.37] 4. Vocalise 13 (LA)...... [1.10] 5. Tristesse d’Olympio (JC)...... [4.19] In sixty years of songwriting, between 1861 and 1921, Fauré’s craft understandably 6. Automne, Op. 18 No. 3 (IB)...... [2.36] developed in richness and subtlety. But many elements remained unchanged: among them, 7. Clair de lune, Op. 46 No. 2 (AM)...... [3.15] a distaste for pretentious pianism (‘Oh pianists, pianists, pianists, when will you consent to 8. Spleen, Op. 51 No. 3 (AM)...... [2.11] hold back your implacable virtuosity !!!!’ he wrote, to a pianist, in 1919) and a loving care 9. Les roses d’Ispahan, Op. 39 No. 4 (JK)...... [3.15] for prosody – not infrequently he ‘improved’ on the poet for musical reasons. Above all, he 10. La rose (Ode anacreontique), Op. 51 No. 4 (TO)...... [2.33] remained his own man. Henri Duparc was a close friend, but his songs, dubbed by Fauré’s 11. Le parfum impérissable, Op. 76 No. 1 (LA)...... [2.36] pupil Ravel ‘imperfect but works of genius’, had only a passing impact on Fauré’s own. 12. Soir, Op. 83 No. 2 (LA)...... [2.04] Where Duparc embraces the grand gesture, Fauré for the most part prefers the suggestion, 13. Chanson de Mélisande, Op. 80 (LA)...... [2.56] the nuance. In this respect, if in no other, his music resembles that of Erik Satie: it tends to 14. Sérénade du Bourgeois gentilhomme (TO)...... [1.27] speaks to each of us singly in familiar tones. Therefore recording is an ideal medium for it, free of all the material distractions of dress, gesture or facial exercise. 15. Ave Maria, Op. 93 (LK)...... [1.58] 16. Vocalise-étude (SK)...... [3.21] Lorna Anderson (LA) Fauré’s preference for suggestion and nuance may seem to sit uneasily with his choice of 17. Le don silencieux, Op. 92 (TO)...... [2.09] Isobel Buchanan (IB) Victor Hugo as the poet for his six earliest songs (one thinks of André Gide’s famous reply 18. Chanson, Op. 94 (SC)...... [1.15] John Chest (JC) to question of who was France’s greatest poet: ‘Victor Hugo, hélas !’), but the composer, 19. Vocalise 24 (LA)...... [1.37] Sarah Connolly (SC) even at the age of sixteen, was careful over what he set. By 1861 he had been a pupil for Iestyn Davies (ID) seven years at the Ecole Niedermeyer in Paris which set out primarily to train church Mirages, Op. 113 (WD) William Dazeley (WD) musicians. However, in that year Saint-Saëns joined the staff, bringing with him a a breath 20. I. Cygne sur l’eau...... [3.06] Janis Kelly (JK) of modernist air nourished on such dangerous influences as Liszt and Wagner, and he and 21. II. Reflets dans l’eau...... [3.57] Louise Kemény (LK) Fauré became lifelong friends. 22. III. Jardin nocturne...... [2.48] Ann Murray (AM) Not that the Hungarian or the German show up in these early Fauré songs. In 1865, 23. IV. Danseuse...... [2.20] Thomas Oliemans (TO) possibly while still employed as an organist in Rennes, he reduced the 38 stanzas of Hugo’s

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‘Tristesse d’Olympio’ to six, retaining the change of mood as the poet moves from a speak of constancy, but his harmonies, magical as they are, are not wholly restful - note description of nature to speech. While the slow nature music sounds somewhat churchy, especially the sudden unexpected note on the second syllable of ‘amour’, and perhaps the his more agitated complaint that Nature is deaf and blind to human sorrow leans towards even more unexpected one on ‘tout’, which threaten to derail the flow. Gounod, and the exact repetition of previous bars in the piano coda lacks the imaginative variation found in later songs. Fauré’s reduction of Hugo’s text to six stanzas does at least If Fauré’s experiences in the Franco-Prussian War left him with a horror of violence in all preserve a semblance of the message of the whole, but in Baudelaire’s ‘Chant d’automne’, its forms, the abandoned engagement with Marianne Viardot left scars of another sort, no one of the three settings he made of this poet in the years 1870 and 1871, his omission of less wounding. The Ancient Greeks were alive, as their tragedies tell us, to the notion of the last two stanzas completely subverts the poet’s intentions: here, with his beloved’s help, ‘pathei mathos’, ‘learning through suffering’, and many of Fauré’s songs from the late 1870s the poet asks for the grace to enjoy autumn’s ‘gentle yellow sunshine’. Nonetheless, this is on testify to the truth of this idea. ‘Automne’, from 1878, is among the most moving of a powerful and beautiful song, in which the ‘choc funèbre’ of the falling logs is wonderfully these. The opening bars are both majestic and sinister, the RH triplets, unchanged for nine transformed into the six pounding left hand octaves (Cs in this recording) to become a bars, being invaded by the widespread, chromatic LH octaves, while the voice intones two ‘choc monotone’, the slow last verse in the major mode giving an early taste of Fauré’s almost-identical phrases: the effect is one of operatic tempo and gravity, as autumn lyrical genius. provokes the poet’s bitter regrets for his distant youth, culminating in the singer’s highest note on ‘oubliées’. The Parnassian poet Sully Prudhomme excelled as an observer of human emotions, especially what have been called ‘tristesses intimes’. ‘Ici-bas’, set by Fauré around 1873, can Fauré was introduced to the poetry of Verlaine by the Comte de Montesquieu, who had be read as either hopeful or dejected - are the dreams of constancy to be fulfilled or not ? appointed himself as the composer’s unofficial literary adviser, and in 1887 he set his first Fauré, having twice introduced the phrase ‘Je rêve’ with a gently surprising chord, sets the Verlaine poem, ‘Clair de lune’, initiating the collection of 17 songs to words by this poet crucial ‘demeurent’ to a strong major one - but then he slips into the minor... We find a which constitute one of the glories of the mélodie literature. As Graham Johnson has written, similarly ambiguous engagement with constancy in the same poet’s ‘Au bord de l’eau’, set ‘The poem is a jewel, and the music follows suit.’ Nonetheless the song’s structure is highly by Fauré in August 1875. Even though the poet appears to be celebrating constancy, the unusual in that the piano has the tunes (both poem and song are subtitled ‘Menuet’) and litany of possible inconstancies - of water, clouds, smoke, perfume etc - seems to represent the blending of voice and piano demonstrates technique of a high order. In the words of at least some sort of struggle against the status quo. Fauré’s gently rocking 6/8 rhythms Vladimir Jankélévitch, ‘Verlaine and Fauré wanted their fête galante to have as its décor , not

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‘Tristesse d’Olympio’ to six, retaining the change of mood as the poet moves from a speak of constancy, but his harmonies, magical as they are, are not wholly restful - note description of nature to speech. While the slow nature music sounds somewhat churchy, especially the sudden unexpected note on the second syllable of ‘amour’, and perhaps the his more agitated complaint that Nature is deaf and blind to human sorrow leans towards even more unexpected one on ‘tout’, which threaten to derail the flow. Gounod, and the exact repetition of previous bars in the piano coda lacks the imaginative variation found in later songs. Fauré’s reduction of Hugo’s text to six stanzas does at least If Fauré’s experiences in the Franco-Prussian War left him with a horror of violence in all preserve a semblance of the message of the whole, but in Baudelaire’s ‘Chant d’automne’, its forms, the abandoned engagement with Marianne Viardot left scars of another sort, no one of the three settings he made of this poet in the years 1870 and 1871, his omission of less wounding. The Ancient Greeks were alive, as their tragedies tell us, to the notion of the last two stanzas completely subverts the poet’s intentions: here, with his beloved’s help, ‘pathei mathos’, ‘learning through suffering’, and many of Fauré’s songs from the late 1870s the poet asks for the grace to enjoy autumn’s ‘gentle yellow sunshine’. Nonetheless, this is on testify to the truth of this idea. ‘Automne’, from 1878, is among the most moving of a powerful and beautiful song, in which the ‘choc funèbre’ of the falling logs is wonderfully these. The opening bars are both majestic and sinister, the RH triplets, unchanged for nine transformed into the six pounding left hand octaves (Cs in this recording) to become a bars, being invaded by the widespread, chromatic LH octaves, while the voice intones two ‘choc monotone’, the slow last verse in the major mode giving an early taste of Fauré’s almost-identical phrases: the effect is one of operatic tempo and gravity, as autumn lyrical genius. provokes the poet’s bitter regrets for his distant youth, culminating in the singer’s highest note on ‘oubliées’. The Parnassian poet Sully Prudhomme excelled as an observer of human emotions, especially what have been called ‘tristesses intimes’. ‘Ici-bas’, set by Fauré around 1873, can Fauré was introduced to the poetry of Verlaine by the Comte de Montesquieu, who had be read as either hopeful or dejected - are the dreams of constancy to be fulfilled or not ? appointed himself as the composer’s unofficial literary adviser, and in 1887 he set his first Fauré, having twice introduced the phrase ‘Je rêve’ with a gently surprising chord, sets the Verlaine poem, ‘Clair de lune’, initiating the collection of 17 songs to words by this poet crucial ‘demeurent’ to a strong major one - but then he slips into the minor... We find a which constitute one of the glories of the mélodie literature. As Graham Johnson has written, similarly ambiguous engagement with constancy in the same poet’s ‘Au bord de l’eau’, set ‘The poem is a jewel, and the music follows suit.’ Nonetheless the song’s structure is highly by Fauré in August 1875. Even though the poet appears to be celebrating constancy, the unusual in that the piano has the tunes (both poem and song are subtitled ‘Menuet’) and litany of possible inconstancies - of water, clouds, smoke, perfume etc - seems to represent the blending of voice and piano demonstrates technique of a high order. In the words of at least some sort of struggle against the status quo. Fauré’s gently rocking 6/8 rhythms Vladimir Jankélévitch, ‘Verlaine and Fauré wanted their fête galante to have as its décor , not

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the great forest of romantic carnivals, but a French park in which, as in scenes by Watteau Fauré again strikes gold. As a tribute to the masterpiece that is ‘Le parfum impérissable’, it and Tiepolo, anonymous, delightfully old-fashioned characters take a turn.’ is enough to quote Reynaldo Hahn: ‘It marks a transition in his output linking the Fauré of the choral Pavane with that of La chanson d’Eve... Bearing the inimitable imprint of his In Fauré’s second setting of Verlaine, ‘Spleen’, from 1888, the piano abandons melody for unparalleled control of line..., it releases, through waves that build and grow, an emotion patterns of raindrops, picturing Verlaine and his lover Rimbaud holed up in their cheap which, despite the severe sobriety of the melody, finally attains an extraordinary intensity.’ London lodgings on the site of what is now the Post Office Tower. The rhythm of the rain may vary between duplets and triplets, but the harmonies rarely stray far from the tonic D A similar intensity marks the song ‘Soir’ of three years earlier. The magic of evening has minor. Boring ? Not for a second, since Fauré’s genius for momentary modulation can appealed to many French poets and composers over the years, but few have equalled Fauré in surprise even within such narrow limits, aided by the occasional rhythmic surprise, such as combining relaxation with interest, ennui with loving attention. The first verse hovers round the curious placing of ‘sur les toits’, the voice’s contribution to the rain’s tapping. the tonic and ends there; the second verse reacts to the poet’s commands with modulations that seem to depict ‘le goût secret des pleurs’; in the third verse, the thinning of the piano texture Some 20 years earlier, seven of Verlaine’s early poems had appeared in the anthology Le (right hand alone) leaves room for the left to enter exactly as pity places its ‘finger on us’. Parnasse contemporain, and it can truly be said both of his poetry and that of the Parnassian Leconte de Lisle that ‘the music of the verse is the true accompaniment of the idea’. In his Before finally composing an opera (Pénélope, premiered in 1913) Fauré prepared himself poem ‘Les roses d’Ispahan’, Leconte de Lisle indulges his love of the exotic through words by writing occasional pieces of incidental music. For a performance of Molière’s Le such as ‘coral’, ‘jasmine’ and ‘orange-blossom’, prompting the Fauré scholar Jean-Michel bourgeois gentilhomme in 1893, he wrote a serenade for the famous music lesson in Act I, Nectoux to remark that here ‘we find a nonchalance that borders on languor... Decadent though apparently it was not used. The gentilhomme, Monsieur Jourdain, pronounces the music for a decadent epoch !’ But once we have accepted that the song contains none of serenade ‘lugubre’ and, as Graham Johnson points out, ‘Fauré makes sure it is anything but the bitterness of ‘Spleen’ or the majesty of ‘Automne’, we can at least enjoy Fauré being in order to emphasise Jourdain’s pretentiousness and inability to appraise music’. Five years charming and sensuous. In his next flower song to words of the same poet, ‘La rose’, Fauré later he wrote music for a performance in London of Maeterlinck’s Pelléas et Mélisande, goes much further harmonically, embarking on modulation after modulation, to the point including a song, ‘The King’s three blind daughters’, for Mélisande. As befits her quiet, self- that we almost lose the thread. Certainly the final ten bars of tonic harmony are more than effacing character, the music is spare but deeply affecting, and Fauré later borrowed it to welcome. Then, in 1897, in a farewell to the poet and the third flower song on his words, begin the cycle La chanson d’Eve.

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the great forest of romantic carnivals, but a French park in which, as in scenes by Watteau Fauré again strikes gold. As a tribute to the masterpiece that is ‘Le parfum impérissable’, it and Tiepolo, anonymous, delightfully old-fashioned characters take a turn.’ is enough to quote Reynaldo Hahn: ‘It marks a transition in his output linking the Fauré of the choral Pavane with that of La chanson d’Eve... Bearing the inimitable imprint of his In Fauré’s second setting of Verlaine, ‘Spleen’, from 1888, the piano abandons melody for unparalleled control of line..., it releases, through waves that build and grow, an emotion patterns of raindrops, picturing Verlaine and his lover Rimbaud holed up in their cheap which, despite the severe sobriety of the melody, finally attains an extraordinary intensity.’ London lodgings on the site of what is now the Post Office Tower. The rhythm of the rain may vary between duplets and triplets, but the harmonies rarely stray far from the tonic D A similar intensity marks the song ‘Soir’ of three years earlier. The magic of evening has minor. Boring ? Not for a second, since Fauré’s genius for momentary modulation can appealed to many French poets and composers over the years, but few have equalled Fauré in surprise even within such narrow limits, aided by the occasional rhythmic surprise, such as combining relaxation with interest, ennui with loving attention. The first verse hovers round the curious placing of ‘sur les toits’, the voice’s contribution to the rain’s tapping. the tonic and ends there; the second verse reacts to the poet’s commands with modulations that seem to depict ‘le goût secret des pleurs’; in the third verse, the thinning of the piano texture Some 20 years earlier, seven of Verlaine’s early poems had appeared in the anthology Le (right hand alone) leaves room for the left to enter exactly as pity places its ‘finger on us’. Parnasse contemporain, and it can truly be said both of his poetry and that of the Parnassian Leconte de Lisle that ‘the music of the verse is the true accompaniment of the idea’. In his Before finally composing an opera (Pénélope, premiered in 1913) Fauré prepared himself poem ‘Les roses d’Ispahan’, Leconte de Lisle indulges his love of the exotic through words by writing occasional pieces of incidental music. For a performance of Molière’s Le such as ‘coral’, ‘jasmine’ and ‘orange-blossom’, prompting the Fauré scholar Jean-Michel bourgeois gentilhomme in 1893, he wrote a serenade for the famous music lesson in Act I, Nectoux to remark that here ‘we find a nonchalance that borders on languor... Decadent though apparently it was not used. The gentilhomme, Monsieur Jourdain, pronounces the music for a decadent epoch !’ But once we have accepted that the song contains none of serenade ‘lugubre’ and, as Graham Johnson points out, ‘Fauré makes sure it is anything but the bitterness of ‘Spleen’ or the majesty of ‘Automne’, we can at least enjoy Fauré being in order to emphasise Jourdain’s pretentiousness and inability to appraise music’. Five years charming and sensuous. In his next flower song to words of the same poet, ‘La rose’, Fauré later he wrote music for a performance in London of Maeterlinck’s Pelléas et Mélisande, goes much further harmonically, embarking on modulation after modulation, to the point including a song, ‘The King’s three blind daughters’, for Mélisande. As befits her quiet, self- that we almost lose the thread. Certainly the final ten bars of tonic harmony are more than effacing character, the music is spare but deeply affecting, and Fauré later borrowed it to welcome. Then, in 1897, in a farewell to the poet and the third flower song on his words, begin the cycle La chanson d’Eve.

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Despite his long years as a church organist, Fauré was never an orthodox believer, though between voice and piano left hand (bass viol ?) while the right hand makes lute noises. he did feel there was some sort of life beyond the earthly one. Although he never set out There is only one accepted cadence before the final one. Elsewhere Fauré teases us with in his anthems to shock or titillate, he could not help adorning them with touches that no feints and false trails... other composer would have thought of. The ‘Ave Maria’ of 1894/5 contains a couple of his miraculous returns to standard cadences, as well as some consecutive fifths in the bass In the period between 1910 and his death in 1924 Fauré abandoned single songs in favour that he would surely not have allowed later to his Conservatoire pupils. of four song cycles - perhaps writing Pénélope gave him a taste for larger canvases ? Mirages, the third of these, shows what simplicity can achieve in the right hands. Fauré forgoes even When he became director of the Paris Conservatoire in 1905, he took a particular interest the basic attractions of tempo variation: the pulses of the four songs lie merely between in the teaching of singing, banning familiar pieces by well-known composers as ‘arranged crotchet = 60 and crotchet = 66. As for intervals in the vocal line, there is one octave, one by Monsieur X’. The two Vocalises on this disc, of 1906 and 1916, as well as the Vocalise- sixth, and all the rest are fifths or less, with a preponderance of conjunct movement, Etude of 1906, show what he was looking for in the accomplished singer: clear articulation, probably going back to the plainsong that had formed a large part of his education. But in agility and a smooth delivery - the Vocalise-Etude bears the firm command ‘Legato sempre’, this narrow field, what power comes from small things: the upward chromaticism launched and the demi-semiquaver scale near the end must be ‘Espress[ivo]’. by ‘et des blancs nénuphars’, the sudden appearance of 19 repeated Es in the third song, the dancing dotted rhythms of the last one ! Herein lies the wisdom of a lifetime. The year 1906 also saw the composition of two splendid songs. Of ‘Le don silencieux’ Fauré wrote to his wife: ‘It does not in the least resemble any of my previous works, nor ©2017 Roger Nichols anything that I am aware of; I’m very pleased about this. There’s not even a main theme...It translates the words gradually as they unfold themselves; it begins, it opens out, and finishes, nothing more, nevertheless it is unified.’ On the surface very little seems to happen - and yet everything does, aided by a harmonic tic that would persist over the next two decades of a sharpened fourth over a tonic chord (e.g. B natural over F major). ‘Chanson’, Fauré’s only setting of Henri de Régnier, follows ‘Le don silencieux’ not only in eschewing anything resembling a tune, but also in being driven by the relations

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Despite his long years as a church organist, Fauré was never an orthodox believer, though between voice and piano left hand (bass viol ?) while the right hand makes lute noises. he did feel there was some sort of life beyond the earthly one. Although he never set out There is only one accepted cadence before the final one. Elsewhere Fauré teases us with in his anthems to shock or titillate, he could not help adorning them with touches that no feints and false trails... other composer would have thought of. The ‘Ave Maria’ of 1894/5 contains a couple of his miraculous returns to standard cadences, as well as some consecutive fifths in the bass In the period between 1910 and his death in 1924 Fauré abandoned single songs in favour that he would surely not have allowed later to his Conservatoire pupils. of four song cycles - perhaps writing Pénélope gave him a taste for larger canvases ? Mirages, the third of these, shows what simplicity can achieve in the right hands. Fauré forgoes even When he became director of the Paris Conservatoire in 1905, he took a particular interest the basic attractions of tempo variation: the pulses of the four songs lie merely between in the teaching of singing, banning familiar pieces by well-known composers as ‘arranged crotchet = 60 and crotchet = 66. As for intervals in the vocal line, there is one octave, one by Monsieur X’. The two Vocalises on this disc, of 1906 and 1916, as well as the Vocalise- sixth, and all the rest are fifths or less, with a preponderance of conjunct movement, Etude of 1906, show what he was looking for in the accomplished singer: clear articulation, probably going back to the plainsong that had formed a large part of his education. But in agility and a smooth delivery - the Vocalise-Etude bears the firm command ‘Legato sempre’, this narrow field, what power comes from small things: the upward chromaticism launched and the demi-semiquaver scale near the end must be ‘Espress[ivo]’. by ‘et des blancs nénuphars’, the sudden appearance of 19 repeated Es in the third song, the dancing dotted rhythms of the last one ! Herein lies the wisdom of a lifetime. The year 1906 also saw the composition of two splendid songs. Of ‘Le don silencieux’ Fauré wrote to his wife: ‘It does not in the least resemble any of my previous works, nor ©2017 Roger Nichols anything that I am aware of; I’m very pleased about this. There’s not even a main theme...It translates the words gradually as they unfold themselves; it begins, it opens out, and finishes, nothing more, nevertheless it is unified.’ On the surface very little seems to happen - and yet everything does, aided by a harmonic tic that would persist over the next two decades of a sharpened fourth over a tonic chord (e.g. B natural over F major). ‘Chanson’, Fauré’s only setting of Henri de Régnier, follows ‘Le don silencieux’ not only in eschewing anything resembling a tune, but also in being driven by the relations

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1. Ici-bas! In this world Mais n’apportant de passion profonde But feeling no deep passion, Sully Prudhomme (1839-1907) Qu’à s’adorer, Except to adore each other, Sans nul souci des querelles du monde, With no cares for the quarrels of the world, Ici-bas tous les lilas meurent, In this world all the lilies die, Les ignorer; To know nothing of them; Tous les chants des oiseaux sont courts; All the songs of birds are short; Et seuls, tous deux devant tout ce qui lasse, And alone together, seeing all that tires, Je rêve aux étés qui demeurent I dream of the summers that abide Sans se lasser, Not to tire of each other, Toujours … Forever … Sentir l’amour, devant tout ce qui passe, To feel that love, in the face of all that passes, Ne point passer! Shall never pass! Ici-bas les lèvres effleurent In this world lips brush but lightly, Sans rien laisser de leur velours; And nothing of their velvet remains; Je rêve aux baisers qui demeurent I dream of the kisses that abide 3. Chant d’automne Autumn song Toujours … Forever … Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)

Ici-bas tous les hommes pleurent In this world every man is mourning Bientôt nous plongerons dans les froides ténèbres; Soon we shall plunge into cold shadows; Leurs amitiés ou leurs amours; His friendships or his loves; Adieu, vive clarté de nos étés trop courts! Farewell, brilliant light of our too-short summers! Je rêve aux couples qui demeurent I dream of the couples who abide J’entends déjà tomber avec un choc funèbre Already I hear the funereal thud Toujours … Forever … Le bois retentissant sur le pavé des cours. Of echoing logs on the courtyard floor.

J’écoute en frémissant chaque bûche qui tombe; I listen, trembling, to the fall of each log; 2. Au bord de l’eau At the water’s edge L’échafaud qu’on bâtit n’a pas d’écho plus sourd. A gallows being built makes no duller sound. Sully Prudhomme Mon esprit est pareil à la tour qui succombe My spirit is like the tower that falls Sous les coups de bélier infatigable et lourd. To the remorseless blows of the battering ram. S’asseoir tous deux au bord du flot qui passe, To sit together on the bank of a flowing stream, Le voir passer; To watch it flow; Il me semble, bercé par ce choc monotone, Rocked by those monotone blows, it seems Tous deux, s’il glisse un nuage en l’espace, Together, if a cloud glides by, Qu’on cloue en grande hâte un cercueil quelque part! Somewhere in haste they are nailing a coffin! Le voir glisser; To watch it glide; Pour qui? – C’était hier l’été; voici l’automne! But whose? Yesterday summer; autumn now! À l’horizon, s’il fume un toit de chaume, On the horizon, if smoke rises from thatch, Ce bruit mystérieux sonne comme un départ. This eerie sound rings like some farewell. Le voir fumer; To watch it rise; Aux alentours si quelque fleur embaume, If nearby a flower smells sweet, J’aime de vos longs yeux la lumière verdâtre, I love the green brilliance of your long eyes, S’en embaumer; To savour its sweetness; Douce beauté! Mais aujourd’hui tout m’est amer, My sweet! But all today is bitter for me, Entendre au pied du saule où l’eau murmure To listen at the foot of the willow, where water murmurs, Et rien, ni votre amour, ni le boudoir, ni l’âtre, And nothing, not your love, the boudoir, or the hearth L’eau murmurer; To the murmuring water; Ne me vaut le soleil rayonnant sur la mer! Can compare with the sunlight on the sea! Ne pas sentir, tant que ce rêve dure, Not to feel, while this dream passes, Le temps durer; The passing of time;

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1. Ici-bas! In this world Mais n’apportant de passion profonde But feeling no deep passion, Sully Prudhomme (1839-1907) Qu’à s’adorer, Except to adore each other, Sans nul souci des querelles du monde, With no cares for the quarrels of the world, Ici-bas tous les lilas meurent, In this world all the lilies die, Les ignorer; To know nothing of them; Tous les chants des oiseaux sont courts; All the songs of birds are short; Et seuls, tous deux devant tout ce qui lasse, And alone together, seeing all that tires, Je rêve aux étés qui demeurent I dream of the summers that abide Sans se lasser, Not to tire of each other, Toujours … Forever … Sentir l’amour, devant tout ce qui passe, To feel that love, in the face of all that passes, Ne point passer! Shall never pass! Ici-bas les lèvres effleurent In this world lips brush but lightly, Sans rien laisser de leur velours; And nothing of their velvet remains; Je rêve aux baisers qui demeurent I dream of the kisses that abide 3. Chant d’automne Autumn song Toujours … Forever … Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)

Ici-bas tous les hommes pleurent In this world every man is mourning Bientôt nous plongerons dans les froides ténèbres; Soon we shall plunge into cold shadows; Leurs amitiés ou leurs amours; His friendships or his loves; Adieu, vive clarté de nos étés trop courts! Farewell, brilliant light of our too-short summers! Je rêve aux couples qui demeurent I dream of the couples who abide J’entends déjà tomber avec un choc funèbre Already I hear the funereal thud Toujours … Forever … Le bois retentissant sur le pavé des cours. Of echoing logs on the courtyard floor.

J’écoute en frémissant chaque bûche qui tombe; I listen, trembling, to the fall of each log; 2. Au bord de l’eau At the water’s edge L’échafaud qu’on bâtit n’a pas d’écho plus sourd. A gallows being built makes no duller sound. Sully Prudhomme Mon esprit est pareil à la tour qui succombe My spirit is like the tower that falls Sous les coups de bélier infatigable et lourd. To the remorseless blows of the battering ram. S’asseoir tous deux au bord du flot qui passe, To sit together on the bank of a flowing stream, Le voir passer; To watch it flow; Il me semble, bercé par ce choc monotone, Rocked by those monotone blows, it seems Tous deux, s’il glisse un nuage en l’espace, Together, if a cloud glides by, Qu’on cloue en grande hâte un cercueil quelque part! Somewhere in haste they are nailing a coffin! Le voir glisser; To watch it glide; Pour qui? – C’était hier l’été; voici l’automne! But whose? Yesterday summer; autumn now! À l’horizon, s’il fume un toit de chaume, On the horizon, if smoke rises from thatch, Ce bruit mystérieux sonne comme un départ. This eerie sound rings like some farewell. Le voir fumer; To watch it rise; Aux alentours si quelque fleur embaume, If nearby a flower smells sweet, J’aime de vos longs yeux la lumière verdâtre, I love the green brilliance of your long eyes, S’en embaumer; To savour its sweetness; Douce beauté! Mais aujourd’hui tout m’est amer, My sweet! But all today is bitter for me, Entendre au pied du saule où l’eau murmure To listen at the foot of the willow, where water murmurs, Et rien, ni votre amour, ni le boudoir, ni l’âtre, And nothing, not your love, the boudoir, or the hearth L’eau murmurer; To the murmuring water; Ne me vaut le soleil rayonnant sur la mer! Can compare with the sunlight on the sea! Ne pas sentir, tant que ce rêve dure, Not to feel, while this dream passes, Le temps durer; The passing of time;

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5. Tristesse d’Olympio The sadness of Olympio 6. Automne Autumn Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Armand Silvestre (1837-1901)

Les champs n’étaient point noirs, les cieux n’étaient pas mornes; The fields were not black, the skies were not bleak; Automne au ciel brumeux, aux horizons navrants, Autumn of misty skies and heart-breaking horizons, Non, le jour rayonnait dans un azur sans bornes No, daylight blazed in infinite blueness Aux rapides couchants, aux aurores pâlies, Of swift sunsets and pale dawns, Sur la terre étendu, Above the earth, Je regarde couler, comme l’eau du torrent, I watch flow by, like torrential water, L’air était plein d’encens The air was filled with incense, Tes jours faits de mélancolie. Your days made up of melancholy. et les prés de verdures the meadows with greenness, Quand il revit ces lieux When he set eyes on those places Sur l’aile des regrets mes esprits emportés, My thoughts, borne away on the wings of regret, où par tant de blessures again where through so many wounds – Comme s’il se pouvait que notre âge renaisse! – - As though our time could come round again! - Son cœur s’est répandu! His heart poured forth! Parcourent, en rêvant, les coteaux enchantés Roam in reverie the enchanted hills, Où jadis sourit ma jeunesse. Where long ago my youth once smiled. Hélas! se rappelant ses douces aventures, Alas! recalling his sweet adventure, Regardant, sans entrer, par-dessus les clôtures, Gazing, without entering, over the fences Je sens, au clair soleil du souvenir vainqueur In the bright sun of triumphant memory Ainsi qu’un paria, Like an outcast, Refleurir en bouquet les roses déliées I feel scattered roses re-flower in a bouquet, Il erra tout le jour. A l’heure où la nuit tombe, He wandered all day long. Towards nightfall, Et monter à mes yeux des larmes, qu’en mon cœur, And tears rise to my eyes, which in my heart Il se sentit le cœur triste comme une tombe, His heart felt as heavy as a tomb, Mes vingt ans avaient oubliées! My twenty-year-old self had forgotten! Alors il s’écria: Then he cried out:

“Ô douleur! j’ai voulu, moi dont l’âme est troublée, “O grief! I, whose soul is troubled, wished 7. Clair de lune Moonlight Savoir si l’urne encor conservait la liqueur, To know if the urn still contained the liquor, Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) Et voir ce qu’avait fait cette heureuse vallée And to see what this happy vale had made De tout ce que j’avais laissé là de mon cœur! Of all I had left there of my heart! Votre âme est un paysage choisi Your soul is a chosen landscape Que vont charmant masques et bergamasques Bewitched by masque and bergamasque, “Que peu de temps suffit pour changer toutes choses! How quickly everything can change! Jouant du luth et dansant et quasi Playing the lute and dancing and almost Nature au front serein, comme vous oubliez! O nature, how you forget with your unfurrowed brow! Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques. Sad beneath their fanciful disguises. Et comme vous brisez dans vos métamorphoses And how you and your metamorphoses sever Les fils mystérieux où nos cœurs sont liés! The mysterious threads whereby our hearts are bound! Tout en chantant sur le mode mineur Singing as they go in a minor key L’amour vainqueur et la vie opportune, Of conquering love and life’s favours, “Eh bien! oubliez-nous, maison, jardin, ombrages! So then! let house, garden and shade forget us! Ils n’ont pas l’air de croire à leur bonheur They don’t quite seem to believe in their fortune Herbe, use notre seuil! ronces, cachez nos pas! Grasses, wear out our threshold! Brambles, hide our steps! Chantez, oiseaux! ruisseaux, coulez! croissez, feuillages! Sing, O birds; stream, O brooklets! Grow, O leaves! Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune, And their song mingles with the light of the moon, Ceux que vous oubliez ne vous oublieront pas. Those you forget shall not forget you. Au calme clair de lune triste et beau, The calm light of the moon, sad and fair, “Car vous êtes pour nous l’ombre de l’amour même! Because you are for us the shadow of love itself! Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres That sets the birds dreaming in the trees Vous êtes l’oasis qu’on rencontre en chemin! You are the oasis we encountered on the way! Et sangloter d’extase les jets d’eau, And the fountains sobbing in their rapture, Vous êtes, ô vallon, la retraite suprême You are, O valley, the dearest shelter Les grands jets d’eau sveltes parmi les marbres. Tall and svelte amid the marble statues. Où nous avons pleuré nous tenant par la main!” Where we wept and held hands!”

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5. Tristesse d’Olympio The sadness of Olympio 6. Automne Autumn Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Armand Silvestre (1837-1901)

Les champs n’étaient point noirs, les cieux n’étaient pas mornes; The fields were not black, the skies were not bleak; Automne au ciel brumeux, aux horizons navrants, Autumn of misty skies and heart-breaking horizons, Non, le jour rayonnait dans un azur sans bornes No, daylight blazed in infinite blueness Aux rapides couchants, aux aurores pâlies, Of swift sunsets and pale dawns, Sur la terre étendu, Above the earth, Je regarde couler, comme l’eau du torrent, I watch flow by, like torrential water, L’air était plein d’encens The air was filled with incense, Tes jours faits de mélancolie. Your days made up of melancholy. et les prés de verdures the meadows with greenness, Quand il revit ces lieux When he set eyes on those places Sur l’aile des regrets mes esprits emportés, My thoughts, borne away on the wings of regret, où par tant de blessures again where through so many wounds – Comme s’il se pouvait que notre âge renaisse! – - As though our time could come round again! - Son cœur s’est répandu! His heart poured forth! Parcourent, en rêvant, les coteaux enchantés Roam in reverie the enchanted hills, Où jadis sourit ma jeunesse. Where long ago my youth once smiled. Hélas! se rappelant ses douces aventures, Alas! recalling his sweet adventure, Regardant, sans entrer, par-dessus les clôtures, Gazing, without entering, over the fences Je sens, au clair soleil du souvenir vainqueur In the bright sun of triumphant memory Ainsi qu’un paria, Like an outcast, Refleurir en bouquet les roses déliées I feel scattered roses re-flower in a bouquet, Il erra tout le jour. A l’heure où la nuit tombe, He wandered all day long. Towards nightfall, Et monter à mes yeux des larmes, qu’en mon cœur, And tears rise to my eyes, which in my heart Il se sentit le cœur triste comme une tombe, His heart felt as heavy as a tomb, Mes vingt ans avaient oubliées! My twenty-year-old self had forgotten! Alors il s’écria: Then he cried out:

“Ô douleur! j’ai voulu, moi dont l’âme est troublée, “O grief! I, whose soul is troubled, wished 7. Clair de lune Moonlight Savoir si l’urne encor conservait la liqueur, To know if the urn still contained the liquor, Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) Et voir ce qu’avait fait cette heureuse vallée And to see what this happy vale had made De tout ce que j’avais laissé là de mon cœur! Of all I had left there of my heart! Votre âme est un paysage choisi Your soul is a chosen landscape Que vont charmant masques et bergamasques Bewitched by masque and bergamasque, “Que peu de temps suffit pour changer toutes choses! How quickly everything can change! Jouant du luth et dansant et quasi Playing the lute and dancing and almost Nature au front serein, comme vous oubliez! O nature, how you forget with your unfurrowed brow! Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques. Sad beneath their fanciful disguises. Et comme vous brisez dans vos métamorphoses And how you and your metamorphoses sever Les fils mystérieux où nos cœurs sont liés! The mysterious threads whereby our hearts are bound! Tout en chantant sur le mode mineur Singing as they go in a minor key L’amour vainqueur et la vie opportune, Of conquering love and life’s favours, “Eh bien! oubliez-nous, maison, jardin, ombrages! So then! let house, garden and shade forget us! Ils n’ont pas l’air de croire à leur bonheur They don’t quite seem to believe in their fortune Herbe, use notre seuil! ronces, cachez nos pas! Grasses, wear out our threshold! Brambles, hide our steps! Chantez, oiseaux! ruisseaux, coulez! croissez, feuillages! Sing, O birds; stream, O brooklets! Grow, O leaves! Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune, And their song mingles with the light of the moon, Ceux que vous oubliez ne vous oublieront pas. Those you forget shall not forget you. Au calme clair de lune triste et beau, The calm light of the moon, sad and fair, “Car vous êtes pour nous l’ombre de l’amour même! Because you are for us the shadow of love itself! Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres That sets the birds dreaming in the trees Vous êtes l’oasis qu’on rencontre en chemin! You are the oasis we encountered on the way! Et sangloter d’extase les jets d’eau, And the fountains sobbing in their rapture, Vous êtes, ô vallon, la retraite suprême You are, O valley, the dearest shelter Les grands jets d’eau sveltes parmi les marbres. Tall and svelte amid the marble statues. Où nous avons pleuré nous tenant par la main!” Where we wept and held hands!”

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8. Spleen (Il pleure dans mon cœur) Tears fall in my heart O Leïlah! depuis que de leur vol léger O Leilah, ever since on light wings Paul Verlaine Tous les baisers ont fui de ta lèvre si douce, All kisses have flown from your sweet lips, Il n’est plus de parfum dans le pâle oranger, The pale orange-tree fragrance is spent, Il pleure dans mon cœur Tears fall in my heart Ni de céleste arome aux roses dans leur mousse… And the heavenly scent of moss-clad roses… Comme il pleut sur la ville; As rain falls on the town; Quelle est cette langueur What is this torpor Oh! que ton jeune amour, ce papillon léger, Oh! may your young love, that flighty butterfly, Qui pénètre mon cœur? Pervading my heart? Revienne vers mon cœur d’une aile prompte et douce, Wing swiftly and gently to my heart once more, Et qu’il parfume encor la fleur de l’oranger, To scent again the orange-blossom, Ô bruit doux de la pluie Ah, the soft sound of rain Les roses d’Ispahan dans leur gaîne de mousse! The roses of Isfahan in their mossy sheaths! Par terre et sur les toits! On the ground and rooves! Pour un cœur qui s’ennuie For a listless heart, Ô le bruit de la pluie! Ah, the song of the rain! 10. La rose The rose Leconte de Lisle Il pleure sans raison Tears fall without reason Dans ce cœur qui s’écœure. In this disheartened heart. Je dirai la rose aux plis gracieux. I shall speak of the rose with its graceful folds. Quoi! nulle trahison?... What! Was there no treason?... La rose est le souffle embaumé des Dieux, The rose is the scented breath of the Gods, Ce deuil est sans raison. This grief’s without reason. Le plus cher souci des Muses divines. The most cherished care of the divine Muses. Je dirai ta gloire, ô charme des yeux, I shall speak of your glory, o delight of the eyes, C’est bien la pire peine And the worst pain of all Ô fleur de Kypris, reine des collines! O flower of Cypris, queen of the hills! De ne savoir pourquoi Must be not to know why Tu t’épanouis entre les beaux doigts You bloom between the beautiful fingers Sans amour et sans haine, Without love and without hate De l’Aube écartant les ombres moroses; Of dawn, brushing gloomy shadows aside; Mon cœur a tant de peine. My heart has so much pain. L’air bleu devient rose, et roses les bois; The blue air turns pink, and pink the woods; La bouche et le sein des vierges sont roses! The lips and breasts of virgins are pink! Heureuse la vierge aux bras arrondis Happy the virgin with rounded arms 9. Les roses d’Ispahan The roses of Isfahan Qui dans les halliers humides te cueille! Who gathers you in damp thickets! Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894) Heureux le front jeune où nage ta feuille! Happy the young brow that you adorn! Ruisselante encor du flot paternel, Happy the bowl where your leaves float! Les roses d’Ispahan dans leur gaîne de mousse, The roses of Isfahan in their mossy sheaths, Quand de la mer bleue Aphrodite éclose Streaming still from the paternal waters, Les jasmins de Mossoul, les fleurs de l’oranger, The jasmines of Mosul, the orange-blossom Étincela nue aux clartés du ciel, When from the blue sea Aphrodite emerged Ont un parfum moins frais, ont une odeur Have a fragrance less fresh and a scent La Terre jalouse enfanta la rose; Glistening naked in the brilliant sky, moins douce, less sweet, Et l’Olympe entier, d’amour transporté, Jealous Earth gave birth to the rose: O blanche Leïlah! que ton souffle léger. O pale Leilah, than your soft breath! Salua la fleur avec la Beauté! And all Olympus, transported by love, Greeted the flower with Beauty! Ta lèvre est de corail, et ton rire léger Your lips are of coral and your light laughter Sonne mieux que l’eau vive et d’une voix plus douce, Rings brighter and sweeter than running water, Mieux que le vent joyeux qui berce l’oranger, Than the blithe wind rocking the orange-tree boughs, Mieux que l’oiseau qui chante au bord d’un nid Than the singing bird by its de mousse… mossy nest…

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8. Spleen (Il pleure dans mon cœur) Tears fall in my heart O Leïlah! depuis que de leur vol léger O Leilah, ever since on light wings Paul Verlaine Tous les baisers ont fui de ta lèvre si douce, All kisses have flown from your sweet lips, Il n’est plus de parfum dans le pâle oranger, The pale orange-tree fragrance is spent, Il pleure dans mon cœur Tears fall in my heart Ni de céleste arome aux roses dans leur mousse… And the heavenly scent of moss-clad roses… Comme il pleut sur la ville; As rain falls on the town; Quelle est cette langueur What is this torpor Oh! que ton jeune amour, ce papillon léger, Oh! may your young love, that flighty butterfly, Qui pénètre mon cœur? Pervading my heart? Revienne vers mon cœur d’une aile prompte et douce, Wing swiftly and gently to my heart once more, Et qu’il parfume encor la fleur de l’oranger, To scent again the orange-blossom, Ô bruit doux de la pluie Ah, the soft sound of rain Les roses d’Ispahan dans leur gaîne de mousse! The roses of Isfahan in their mossy sheaths! Par terre et sur les toits! On the ground and rooves! Pour un cœur qui s’ennuie For a listless heart, Ô le bruit de la pluie! Ah, the song of the rain! 10. La rose The rose Leconte de Lisle Il pleure sans raison Tears fall without reason Dans ce cœur qui s’écœure. In this disheartened heart. Je dirai la rose aux plis gracieux. I shall speak of the rose with its graceful folds. Quoi! nulle trahison?... What! Was there no treason?... La rose est le souffle embaumé des Dieux, The rose is the scented breath of the Gods, Ce deuil est sans raison. This grief’s without reason. Le plus cher souci des Muses divines. The most cherished care of the divine Muses. Je dirai ta gloire, ô charme des yeux, I shall speak of your glory, o delight of the eyes, C’est bien la pire peine And the worst pain of all Ô fleur de Kypris, reine des collines! O flower of Cypris, queen of the hills! De ne savoir pourquoi Must be not to know why Tu t’épanouis entre les beaux doigts You bloom between the beautiful fingers Sans amour et sans haine, Without love and without hate De l’Aube écartant les ombres moroses; Of dawn, brushing gloomy shadows aside; Mon cœur a tant de peine. My heart has so much pain. L’air bleu devient rose, et roses les bois; The blue air turns pink, and pink the woods; La bouche et le sein des vierges sont roses! The lips and breasts of virgins are pink! Heureuse la vierge aux bras arrondis Happy the virgin with rounded arms 9. Les roses d’Ispahan The roses of Isfahan Qui dans les halliers humides te cueille! Who gathers you in damp thickets! Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894) Heureux le front jeune où nage ta feuille! Happy the young brow that you adorn! Ruisselante encor du flot paternel, Happy the bowl where your leaves float! Les roses d’Ispahan dans leur gaîne de mousse, The roses of Isfahan in their mossy sheaths, Quand de la mer bleue Aphrodite éclose Streaming still from the paternal waters, Les jasmins de Mossoul, les fleurs de l’oranger, The jasmines of Mosul, the orange-blossom Étincela nue aux clartés du ciel, When from the blue sea Aphrodite emerged Ont un parfum moins frais, ont une odeur Have a fragrance less fresh and a scent La Terre jalouse enfanta la rose; Glistening naked in the brilliant sky, moins douce, less sweet, Et l’Olympe entier, d’amour transporté, Jealous Earth gave birth to the rose: O blanche Leïlah! que ton souffle léger. O pale Leilah, than your soft breath! Salua la fleur avec la Beauté! And all Olympus, transported by love, Greeted the flower with Beauty! Ta lèvre est de corail, et ton rire léger Your lips are of coral and your light laughter Sonne mieux que l’eau vive et d’une voix plus douce, Rings brighter and sweeter than running water, Mieux que le vent joyeux qui berce l’oranger, Than the blithe wind rocking the orange-tree boughs, Mieux que l’oiseau qui chante au bord d’un nid Than the singing bird by its de mousse… mossy nest…

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11. Le parfum impérissable The imperishable perfume 13. Chanson de Mélisande 13. Mélisande’s song Leconte de Lisle Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)

Quand la fleur du soleil, la rose de Lahor, When the flower of the sun, the rose of Lahore, Les trois aveugles, The three blind sisters, De son âme odorante a rempli goutte à goutte Has drop by drop from her scented soul (Espérons encore). (Let us still hope). La fiole d’argile ou de cristal ou d’or, Filled the phial of clay or crystal or gold, Les trois sœurs aveugles, The three blind sisters Sur le sable qui brûle on peut l’épandre toute. It can all be scattered on the burning sands. Ont leurs lampes d’or. Have their lamps of gold.

Les fleuves et la mer inonderaient en vain Rivers and oceans would flood in vain Montent à la tour, They climb up to the tower, Ce sanctuaire étroit qui la tint enfermée: This narrow sanctuary where she was confined: (Elles, vous et nous). (They, you and us). Il garde en se brisant son arome divin, On shattering it keeps her heavenly scent, Montent à la tour, They climb up to the tower, Et sa poussière heureuse en reste parfumée. Which still perfumes its happy dust. Attendent sept jours. And wait for seven days.

Puisque par la blessure ouverte de mon cœur Since through the gaping wound of my heart Ah! dit la première, Ah! said the first, Tu t’écoules de même, ô céleste liqueur, You likewise flow, o heavenly nectar, Espérons encore, Let us still hope, Inexprimable amour, qui m’enflammais pour elle! Ineffable love which inflamed me for her, Ah! dit la première, Ah, said the first, J’entends nos lumières. I hear our lamps burning. Qu’il lui soit pardonné, que mon mal soit béni! May she be pardoned and my pain be blessed! Par delà l’heure humaine et le temps infini Beyond human hours and infinite time Ah! dit la seconde, Ah! said the second, Mon cœur est embaumé d’une odeur immortelle! My heart is scented with immortal fragrance! (Elles, vous et nous). (She, you and us). Ah! dit la seconde, Ah! said the second, C’est le roi qui monte. It’s the King on the stairs. 12. Soir Evening Albert Samain (1858-1900) Non, dit la plus sainte No, said the holiest (Espérons encore). (Let us still hope). Voici que les jardins de la Nuit vont fleurir. Now the gardens of Night begin to flower. Non, dit la plus sainte, No, said the holiest, Les lignes, les couleurs, les sons deviennent vagues. Lines, colours and sounds now blur. Elles se sont éteintes … Our lamps have gone out … Vois, le dernier rayon agonise à tes bagues. See! on your rings the last rays fade. Ma sœur, entends-tu pas quelque chose mourir! … Sister, can you not hear something die? 14. Sérénade du Bourgeois gentilhomme 14. Serenade of ‘The bourgeois gentilhomme’ Mets sur mon front tes mains fraîches comme une eau pure, Place your hands, cool as pure water, on my brow, Molière (1622-1673) Mets sur mes yeux tes mains douces comme des fleurs; Place on my eyes your hands as sweet as flowers; Et que mon âme, où vit le goût secret des pleurs, And let my soul, with its secret taste of tears, Je languis nuit et jour, et ma peine est extrême I languish night and day, and my pain is extreme, Soit comme un lys fidèle et pâle à ta ceinture. Be like a lily at your waist, faithful and pale. Depuis qu’à vos rigeurs vos beaux yeux m’ont soumis; Since your lovely eyes have subjected me to your severity: Si vous traitez ainsi, belle Iris, qui vous aime, If, lovely Iris, you treat him who loves you thus, C’est la Pitié qui pose ainsi son doigt sur nous; It is Pity that lays thus its finger on us; Hélas! que pourriez-vous faire à vos ennemis? How, alas, would you treat your enemies? Et tout ce que la terre a de soupirs qui montent, And all the sighs that might rise from the earth, Il semble qu’à mon cœur enivré le racontent Seem uttered to my enchanted heart Tes yeux levés au ciel si tristes et si doux. By your sad sweet eyes raised to the skies. 16 17

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11. Le parfum impérissable The imperishable perfume 13. Chanson de Mélisande 13. Mélisande’s song Leconte de Lisle Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)

Quand la fleur du soleil, la rose de Lahor, When the flower of the sun, the rose of Lahore, Les trois aveugles, The three blind sisters, De son âme odorante a rempli goutte à goutte Has drop by drop from her scented soul (Espérons encore). (Let us still hope). La fiole d’argile ou de cristal ou d’or, Filled the phial of clay or crystal or gold, Les trois sœurs aveugles, The three blind sisters Sur le sable qui brûle on peut l’épandre toute. It can all be scattered on the burning sands. Ont leurs lampes d’or. Have their lamps of gold.

Les fleuves et la mer inonderaient en vain Rivers and oceans would flood in vain Montent à la tour, They climb up to the tower, Ce sanctuaire étroit qui la tint enfermée: This narrow sanctuary where she was confined: (Elles, vous et nous). (They, you and us). Il garde en se brisant son arome divin, On shattering it keeps her heavenly scent, Montent à la tour, They climb up to the tower, Et sa poussière heureuse en reste parfumée. Which still perfumes its happy dust. Attendent sept jours. And wait for seven days.

Puisque par la blessure ouverte de mon cœur Since through the gaping wound of my heart Ah! dit la première, Ah! said the first, Tu t’écoules de même, ô céleste liqueur, You likewise flow, o heavenly nectar, Espérons encore, Let us still hope, Inexprimable amour, qui m’enflammais pour elle! Ineffable love which inflamed me for her, Ah! dit la première, Ah, said the first, J’entends nos lumières. I hear our lamps burning. Qu’il lui soit pardonné, que mon mal soit béni! May she be pardoned and my pain be blessed! Par delà l’heure humaine et le temps infini Beyond human hours and infinite time Ah! dit la seconde, Ah! said the second, Mon cœur est embaumé d’une odeur immortelle! My heart is scented with immortal fragrance! (Elles, vous et nous). (She, you and us). Ah! dit la seconde, Ah! said the second, C’est le roi qui monte. It’s the King on the stairs. 12. Soir Evening Albert Samain (1858-1900) Non, dit la plus sainte No, said the holiest (Espérons encore). (Let us still hope). Voici que les jardins de la Nuit vont fleurir. Now the gardens of Night begin to flower. Non, dit la plus sainte, No, said the holiest, Les lignes, les couleurs, les sons deviennent vagues. Lines, colours and sounds now blur. Elles se sont éteintes … Our lamps have gone out … Vois, le dernier rayon agonise à tes bagues. See! on your rings the last rays fade. Ma sœur, entends-tu pas quelque chose mourir! … Sister, can you not hear something die? 14. Sérénade du Bourgeois gentilhomme 14. Serenade of ‘The bourgeois gentilhomme’ Mets sur mon front tes mains fraîches comme une eau pure, Place your hands, cool as pure water, on my brow, Molière (1622-1673) Mets sur mes yeux tes mains douces comme des fleurs; Place on my eyes your hands as sweet as flowers; Et que mon âme, où vit le goût secret des pleurs, And let my soul, with its secret taste of tears, Je languis nuit et jour, et ma peine est extrême I languish night and day, and my pain is extreme, Soit comme un lys fidèle et pâle à ta ceinture. Be like a lily at your waist, faithful and pale. Depuis qu’à vos rigeurs vos beaux yeux m’ont soumis; Since your lovely eyes have subjected me to your severity: Si vous traitez ainsi, belle Iris, qui vous aime, If, lovely Iris, you treat him who loves you thus, C’est la Pitié qui pose ainsi son doigt sur nous; It is Pity that lays thus its finger on us; Hélas! que pourriez-vous faire à vos ennemis? How, alas, would you treat your enemies? Et tout ce que la terre a de soupirs qui montent, And all the sighs that might rise from the earth, Il semble qu’à mon cœur enivré le racontent Seem uttered to my enchanted heart Tes yeux levés au ciel si tristes et si doux. By your sad sweet eyes raised to the skies. 16 17

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15. Ave Maria Hail Mary Elles iront à vous, légères d’être vides, They will come to you, light at being empty, Et lourdes d’être tristes, tristes d’être timides; Heavy at being sad, sad at being shy; Ave Maria, gratia plena, Hail Mary, full of grace, Maria, gratia plena, Mary, full of grace, Malheureuses et douces et si découragées Unhappy and gentle and so downcast Ave, Dominus, Hail, the Lord Que peut-être, mon Dieu, vous les recueillerez! … That maybe, my God, you will gather them up! … Dominus tecum. The Lord is with thee. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed, Et benedictus fructus ventris (tui), Blessed is the fruit of thy womb, 18. Chanson Song Ventris tui, Jesus. Thy womb, Jesus. Henri de Régnier (1864-1936) Ave Maria! Hail Mary! Que me fait toute la terre What use to me is all the earth Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, Holy Mary, Mother of God, Inutile où tu n’as pas Where you have not left Ora pro nobis peccatoribus, Pray for us sinners, En marchant marqué ton pas The imprint of your steps Nunc et in hora mortis, Now, and at the hour of our death, Dans le sable ou la poussière! In the sand or the dust! Ave Maria! Hail Mary! Il n’est de fleuve attendu I await no river Par ma soif qui s’y étanche To quench my thirst 17. Le don silencieux (‘Jean Dominique’) The silent gift Que l’eau qui sourd et s’épanche But the waters that well and flow De la source où tu as bu; From the spring where you have drunk; Je mettrai mes deux mains sur ma bouche, pour taire I shall place my two hands over my mouth, to silence Ce que je voudrais tant vous dire, âme bien chère! What I so wish to tell you, dearest soul! La seule fleur qui m’attire The only flower which attracts me Est celle où je trouverai Is that on which I’ll find Je mettrai mes deux mains sur mes yeux, pour cacher I shall place my two hands over my eyes, to hide Le souvenir empourpré The crimson memory Ce que je voudrais tant que pourtant vous cherchiez. What I still so wish you to seek. De ta bouche et de ton rire; Of your lips and your laughter;

Je mettrai mes deux mains sur mon cœur, chère vie, I shall place my two hands over my heart, dear life, Et, sous la courbe des cieux, And beneath the sweep of the sky, Pour que vous ignoriez de quel cœur je vous prie! That you may not know with how much heart I entreat! La mer pour moi n’est immense The sea for me is only immense Que parce qu’elle commence Because it begins Et puis je les mettrai doucement dans vos mains, And then I shall place them gently in your hands, A la couleur de tes yeux. With the colour of your eyes. Ces deux mains-ci qui meurent d’un fatigant chagrin! … These two hands that die of a wearying sorrow! …

Elles iront à vous pleines de leur faiblesse, They will come to you, full of their weakness, Toutes silencieuses et même sans caresse, All silent and even without a caress,

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15. Ave Maria Hail Mary Elles iront à vous, légères d’être vides, They will come to you, light at being empty, Et lourdes d’être tristes, tristes d’être timides; Heavy at being sad, sad at being shy; Ave Maria, gratia plena, Hail Mary, full of grace, Maria, gratia plena, Mary, full of grace, Malheureuses et douces et si découragées Unhappy and gentle and so downcast Ave, Dominus, Hail, the Lord Que peut-être, mon Dieu, vous les recueillerez! … That maybe, my God, you will gather them up! … Dominus tecum. The Lord is with thee. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed, Et benedictus fructus ventris (tui), Blessed is the fruit of thy womb, 18. Chanson Song Ventris tui, Jesus. Thy womb, Jesus. Henri de Régnier (1864-1936) Ave Maria! Hail Mary! Que me fait toute la terre What use to me is all the earth Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, Holy Mary, Mother of God, Inutile où tu n’as pas Where you have not left Ora pro nobis peccatoribus, Pray for us sinners, En marchant marqué ton pas The imprint of your steps Nunc et in hora mortis, Now, and at the hour of our death, Dans le sable ou la poussière! In the sand or the dust! Ave Maria! Hail Mary! Il n’est de fleuve attendu I await no river Par ma soif qui s’y étanche To quench my thirst 17. Le don silencieux (‘Jean Dominique’) The silent gift Que l’eau qui sourd et s’épanche But the waters that well and flow De la source où tu as bu; From the spring where you have drunk; Je mettrai mes deux mains sur ma bouche, pour taire I shall place my two hands over my mouth, to silence Ce que je voudrais tant vous dire, âme bien chère! What I so wish to tell you, dearest soul! La seule fleur qui m’attire The only flower which attracts me Est celle où je trouverai Is that on which I’ll find Je mettrai mes deux mains sur mes yeux, pour cacher I shall place my two hands over my eyes, to hide Le souvenir empourpré The crimson memory Ce que je voudrais tant que pourtant vous cherchiez. What I still so wish you to seek. De ta bouche et de ton rire; Of your lips and your laughter;

Je mettrai mes deux mains sur mon cœur, chère vie, I shall place my two hands over my heart, dear life, Et, sous la courbe des cieux, And beneath the sweep of the sky, Pour que vous ignoriez de quel cœur je vous prie! That you may not know with how much heart I entreat! La mer pour moi n’est immense The sea for me is only immense Que parce qu’elle commence Because it begins Et puis je les mettrai doucement dans vos mains, And then I shall place them gently in your hands, A la couleur de tes yeux. With the colour of your eyes. Ces deux mains-ci qui meurent d’un fatigant chagrin! … These two hands that die of a wearying sorrow! …

Elles iront à vous pleines de leur faiblesse, They will come to you, full of their weakness, Toutes silencieuses et même sans caresse, All silent and even without a caress,

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20-23. Mirages Mirages 21. Reflets dans l’eau Reflections in the water Renée de Brimont (1880-1943) 20. Cygne sur l’eau Swan on the water Étendue au seuil du bassin, Stretched out at the pool’s edge, Dans l’eau plus froide que le sein In water more cold than the breasts Ma pensée est un cygne harmonieux et sage My thoughts are a harmonious and gentle swan Des vierges sages, Of wise virgins, Qui glisse lentement aux rivages d’ennui Gliding slowly along the shores of ennui J’ai reflété mon vague ennui, I saw reflected my vague ennui, Sur les ondes sans fond du rêve, du mirage, On the fathomless waters of dreams and delusion, Mes yeux profonds couleur de nuit My deep and night-dark eyes De l’écho, du brouillard, de l’ombre, de la nuit. Of echo, of mist, of shadow, of night. Et mon visage. And my face.

Il glisse, roi hautain fendant un libre espace, He glides, a haughty monarch cleaving a path, Et dans ce miroir incertain And in this uncertain mirror Poursuit un reflet vain, précieux et changeant, Pursuing a vain reflection, precious and fleeting, J’ai vu de merveilleux matins … I have seen wondrous mornings... Et les roseaux nombreux s’inclinent quand il passe, And the countless reeds bow as he passes, J’ai vu des choses I have seen things Sombre et muet, au seuil d’une lune d’argent; Dark and mute at the edge of a silver moon; Pâles comme des souvenirs, As pale as memories Sur l’eau que ne saurait ternir On the water that no morose wind Et des blancs nénuphars chaque corolle ronde And each round corolla of the white water-lilies Nul vent morose. Could mist. Tour à tour a fleuri de désir ou d’espoir … Has blossomed by turn with desire or hope... Mais plus avant toujours, sur la brume et sur l’onde, But ever forward on the mists and the waves, Alors – au fond du Passé bleu – Then on the bed of the blue Past, Vers l’inconnu fuyant glisse le cygne noir. The black swan flees gliding toward the unknown. Mon corps mince n’était qu’un peu My slight body was but a shred D’ombre mouvante; Of moving shadow; Or j’ai dit: «Renoncez, beau cygne chimérique, Then I said: “Beautiful swan, seen in a vision, renounce Sous les lauriers et les cyprès Beneath the laurel and cypress À ce voyage lent vers de troubles destins; This slow voyage to troubled destinies; J’aimais la brise au souffle frais I loved the cool breath of wind Nul miracle chinois, nulle étrange Amérique No Chinese miracle, no exotic America Qui nous évente … That fanned us... Ne vous accueilleront en des havres certains; Will welcome you in safe havens; J’aimais vos caresses de sœur, I loved your sisterly caresses, Les golfes embaumés, les îles immortelles The scented gulfs, the immortal isles Vos nuances, votre douceur, Your light and shade, your softness, Ont pour vous, cygne noir, des récifs périlleux; Await you, black swan, with their perilous reefs; Aube opportune; Timely dawn; Demeurez sur les lacs où se mirent, fidèles, Remain on the lakes which faithfully reflect Et votre pas souple et rythmé, And your supple rhythmic step, Ces nuages, ces fleurs, ces astres, et ces yeux.» These clouds, these flowers, these stars and these eyes.” Nymphes au rire parfumé, You nymphs pale as the moon Au teint de lune; With scented laughter;

Et le galop des aegypans, And the gallop of the Aegypans, Et la fontaine qui s’épand And the fountain cascading En larmes fades … In saltless tears... Par les bois secrets et divins In the secret and sacred woods J’écoutais frissonner sans fin I heard the hamadryad’s L’hamadryade. Endless quivering.

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20-23. Mirages Mirages 21. Reflets dans l’eau Reflections in the water Renée de Brimont (1880-1943) 20. Cygne sur l’eau Swan on the water Étendue au seuil du bassin, Stretched out at the pool’s edge, Dans l’eau plus froide que le sein In water more cold than the breasts Ma pensée est un cygne harmonieux et sage My thoughts are a harmonious and gentle swan Des vierges sages, Of wise virgins, Qui glisse lentement aux rivages d’ennui Gliding slowly along the shores of ennui J’ai reflété mon vague ennui, I saw reflected my vague ennui, Sur les ondes sans fond du rêve, du mirage, On the fathomless waters of dreams and delusion, Mes yeux profonds couleur de nuit My deep and night-dark eyes De l’écho, du brouillard, de l’ombre, de la nuit. Of echo, of mist, of shadow, of night. Et mon visage. And my face.

Il glisse, roi hautain fendant un libre espace, He glides, a haughty monarch cleaving a path, Et dans ce miroir incertain And in this uncertain mirror Poursuit un reflet vain, précieux et changeant, Pursuing a vain reflection, precious and fleeting, J’ai vu de merveilleux matins … I have seen wondrous mornings... Et les roseaux nombreux s’inclinent quand il passe, And the countless reeds bow as he passes, J’ai vu des choses I have seen things Sombre et muet, au seuil d’une lune d’argent; Dark and mute at the edge of a silver moon; Pâles comme des souvenirs, As pale as memories Sur l’eau que ne saurait ternir On the water that no morose wind Et des blancs nénuphars chaque corolle ronde And each round corolla of the white water-lilies Nul vent morose. Could mist. Tour à tour a fleuri de désir ou d’espoir … Has blossomed by turn with desire or hope... Mais plus avant toujours, sur la brume et sur l’onde, But ever forward on the mists and the waves, Alors – au fond du Passé bleu – Then on the bed of the blue Past, Vers l’inconnu fuyant glisse le cygne noir. The black swan flees gliding toward the unknown. Mon corps mince n’était qu’un peu My slight body was but a shred D’ombre mouvante; Of moving shadow; Or j’ai dit: «Renoncez, beau cygne chimérique, Then I said: “Beautiful swan, seen in a vision, renounce Sous les lauriers et les cyprès Beneath the laurel and cypress À ce voyage lent vers de troubles destins; This slow voyage to troubled destinies; J’aimais la brise au souffle frais I loved the cool breath of wind Nul miracle chinois, nulle étrange Amérique No Chinese miracle, no exotic America Qui nous évente … That fanned us... Ne vous accueilleront en des havres certains; Will welcome you in safe havens; J’aimais vos caresses de sœur, I loved your sisterly caresses, Les golfes embaumés, les îles immortelles The scented gulfs, the immortal isles Vos nuances, votre douceur, Your light and shade, your softness, Ont pour vous, cygne noir, des récifs périlleux; Await you, black swan, with their perilous reefs; Aube opportune; Timely dawn; Demeurez sur les lacs où se mirent, fidèles, Remain on the lakes which faithfully reflect Et votre pas souple et rythmé, And your supple rhythmic step, Ces nuages, ces fleurs, ces astres, et ces yeux.» These clouds, these flowers, these stars and these eyes.” Nymphes au rire parfumé, You nymphs pale as the moon Au teint de lune; With scented laughter;

Et le galop des aegypans, And the gallop of the Aegypans, Et la fontaine qui s’épand And the fountain cascading En larmes fades … In saltless tears... Par les bois secrets et divins In the secret and sacred woods J’écoutais frissonner sans fin I heard the hamadryad’s L’hamadryade. Endless quivering.

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Ô cher Passé mystérieux Cherished, mysterious Past, 23. Danseuse Dancer Qui vous reflétez dans mes yeux Reflected in my eyes Comme un nuage, Like a cloud, Sœur des Sœurs tisseuses de violettes, Sister of violet-weaving sisters, Il me serait plaisant et doux, It would be pleasant and sweet for me Une ardente veille blémit tes joues … A passionate vigil pales your cheeks ... Passé, d’essayer avec vous To embark with you, o Past, Danse! Et que les rythmes aigus dénouent Dance! And let the shrill rhythms unfurl Le long voyage! … On the long voyage!.. Tes bandelettes. Your head-bands.

Si je glisse, les eaux feront If I slip, the waters will ripple Vase svelte, fresque mouvante et souple, Svelte vessel, supple and moving fresco, Un rond fluide … un autre rond … In rings... in rings.. Danse, danse, paumes vers nous tendues, Dance with palms outstretched before us, Un autre à peine … In rin... Pieds étroits fuyant, tels des ailes nues Slender feet flying like the naked wings Et puis le miroir enchanté And then the enchanted mirror Qu’Éros découple … Which Eros unbinds. Reprendra sa limpidité Will recover its limpidity, Froide et sereine. Cold and serene. Sois la fleur multiple un peu balancée, Be the multiple flower swaying a little, Sois l’écharpe offerte au désir qui change, Be the scarf proffered to fickle desire, Sois la lampe chaste, la flamme étrange, Be the chaste lamp, the strange flame, 22. Jardin nocturne Nocturnal garden Sois la pensée! Be thought!

Nocturne jardin tout empli de silence, Nocturnal garden brimming with silence, Danse, danse au chant de ma flûte creuse, Dance, dance to the song of my hollow flute, Voici que la lune ouverte se balance Now the open moon is poised Sœur des Sœurs divines. – La moiteur glisse. Sister of sacred sisters. Moisture trickles, En des voiles d’or fluides et légers; In light and fluid veils of gold; Baiser vain, le long de ta hanche lisse … A kiss in vain, along your lithe hip... Elle semble proche et cependant lointaine … Close she seems, yet far away... Vaine danseuse! Vain dancer! Son visage rit au cœur de la fontaine Her face laughs in the fountain’s midst Et l’ombre pâlit sous les noirs orangers. And shadows pale beneath black orange-trees. Translations © by Richard Stokes from Graham Nul bruit, si ce n’est le faible bruit de l’onde No sound, save perhaps the whispering wave Johnson’s Gabriel Fauré: The Songs and their Poets Fuyant goutte à goutte au bord des vasques rondes, Escaping drop by drop from round fountain basins, (Ashgate, 2009) Ou le bleu frisson d’une brise d’été, Or the blue quiver of a summer breeze, Furtive parmi des palmes invisibles … Furtive among the invisible palms... Je sais, ô jardin, vos caresses sensibles I know, o garden, your keen caresses Et votre languide et chaude volupté! And your languid, torrid voluptuousness!

Je sais votre paix délectable et morose, I know your delicious and sullen peace, Vos parfums d’iris, de jasmins et de roses, Your scents of iris, of jasmine, of rose, Vos charmes troublés de désir et d’ennui … Your beauty ruffled by desire and ennui... Ô jardin muet! – L’eau des vasques s’égoutte O silent garden! The waters in the basin drip Avec un bruit faible et magique … J’écoute With a faint and magical sound ... I listen Ce baiser qui chante aux lèvres de la Nuit. To this kiss sung on the lips of Night.

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Ô cher Passé mystérieux Cherished, mysterious Past, 23. Danseuse Dancer Qui vous reflétez dans mes yeux Reflected in my eyes Comme un nuage, Like a cloud, Sœur des Sœurs tisseuses de violettes, Sister of violet-weaving sisters, Il me serait plaisant et doux, It would be pleasant and sweet for me Une ardente veille blémit tes joues … A passionate vigil pales your cheeks ... Passé, d’essayer avec vous To embark with you, o Past, Danse! Et que les rythmes aigus dénouent Dance! And let the shrill rhythms unfurl Le long voyage! … On the long voyage!.. Tes bandelettes. Your head-bands.

Si je glisse, les eaux feront If I slip, the waters will ripple Vase svelte, fresque mouvante et souple, Svelte vessel, supple and moving fresco, Un rond fluide … un autre rond … In rings... in rings.. Danse, danse, paumes vers nous tendues, Dance with palms outstretched before us, Un autre à peine … In rin... Pieds étroits fuyant, tels des ailes nues Slender feet flying like the naked wings Et puis le miroir enchanté And then the enchanted mirror Qu’Éros découple … Which Eros unbinds. Reprendra sa limpidité Will recover its limpidity, Froide et sereine. Cold and serene. Sois la fleur multiple un peu balancée, Be the multiple flower swaying a little, Sois l’écharpe offerte au désir qui change, Be the scarf proffered to fickle desire, Sois la lampe chaste, la flamme étrange, Be the chaste lamp, the strange flame, 22. Jardin nocturne Nocturnal garden Sois la pensée! Be thought!

Nocturne jardin tout empli de silence, Nocturnal garden brimming with silence, Danse, danse au chant de ma flûte creuse, Dance, dance to the song of my hollow flute, Voici que la lune ouverte se balance Now the open moon is poised Sœur des Sœurs divines. – La moiteur glisse. Sister of sacred sisters. Moisture trickles, En des voiles d’or fluides et légers; In light and fluid veils of gold; Baiser vain, le long de ta hanche lisse … A kiss in vain, along your lithe hip... Elle semble proche et cependant lointaine … Close she seems, yet far away... Vaine danseuse! Vain dancer! Son visage rit au cœur de la fontaine Her face laughs in the fountain’s midst Et l’ombre pâlit sous les noirs orangers. And shadows pale beneath black orange-trees. Translations © by Richard Stokes from Graham Nul bruit, si ce n’est le faible bruit de l’onde No sound, save perhaps the whispering wave Johnson’s Gabriel Fauré: The Songs and their Poets Fuyant goutte à goutte au bord des vasques rondes, Escaping drop by drop from round fountain basins, (Ashgate, 2009) Ou le bleu frisson d’une brise d’été, Or the blue quiver of a summer breeze, Furtive parmi des palmes invisibles … Furtive among the invisible palms... Je sais, ô jardin, vos caresses sensibles I know, o garden, your keen caresses Et votre languide et chaude volupté! And your languid, torrid voluptuousness!

Je sais votre paix délectable et morose, I know your delicious and sullen peace, Vos parfums d’iris, de jasmins et de roses, Your scents of iris, of jasmine, of rose, Vos charmes troublés de désir et d’ennui … Your beauty ruffled by desire and ennui... Ô jardin muet! – L’eau des vasques s’égoutte O silent garden! The waters in the basin drip Avec un bruit faible et magique … J’écoute With a faint and magical sound ... I listen Ce baiser qui chante aux lèvres de la Nuit. To this kiss sung on the lips of Night.

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Lorna Anderson was born in Glasgow and studied initially at the RSAMD Isobel Buchanan was born in Glasgow and won a scholarship to The with Patricia MacMahon before winning a postgraduate scholarship to Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1971. Whilst there, she the RCM. While still a student, she won a number of awards and attained her Diplomas for teaching and performing, won The Governors’ competitions and has gone on to enjoy a busy and varied career, Recital Prize for Singing and was named Student of the Year 1974. appearing in opera, concert and as a recitalist all over the world. The following year, she auditioned for Richard Bonynge and Joan As a renowned performer of the baroque and classical repertoire in Sutherland who offered her a three year contract to sing with the particular, she has sung as a soloist with all the major orchestras and Australian Opera Company in Sydney. She made her debut as Pamina in ensembles, large and small, in the field including The Orchestra of the Age of The Magic Flute to great acclaim and she went on to sing the role in many of the great Enlightenment, Les Arts Florissants, The Sixteen, The English Concert, The King’s opera houses of the world. Other roles with the AO included Fiordiligi, The Countess, Consort, The London Classical Players, La Chapelle Royale and the Academy of Ancient Zerlina, Micaela, Norina, Gilda, Amelia, Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Blanche Music under conductors which include William Christie, Harry Christophers, Robert (Dialogues of the Carmelites). She sang two seasons for the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Zerlina King,Trevor Pinnock, Philippe Herreweghe, Richard Egarr and Christpher Hogwood. in Don Giovanni and as Adina in L’elisir d’amore with Carlo Bergonzi and later with Luciano Pavarotti, who had requested her for the role, having recorded with her in London Her numerous recordings reflect her love for chamber music and include The Fairy Queen in La Sonnambula with Joan Sutherland. under Harry Christophers, Haydn Masses under Richard Hickox, a disc of Portuguese Love Songs with the Apollo Chamber Orchestra and for Hyperion she has recorded Isobel has appeared with all the major British orchestras and has travelled the world singing Britten Folksong settings with Malcolm Martineau, Handel’s L’Allegro with Robert King with conductors such as Carlos Kleiber, Georg Solti, Andrew Davis, Colin Davis, and is an artist on Graham Johnson’s complete Schubert Edition. As well as being part of Celibidache, John Pritchard, Neville Mariner, Richard Bonynge, and Yehudi Menuhin. She this series of the complete Poulenc songs for Signum Records, she has recorded a disc of has won many prizes and accolades and her recording of the Mahler 2nd Symphony with Debussy songs for Hyperion, again accompanied by Malcolm Martineau. Lorna is also an Solti was awarded the Grande Prix du Disque. She was also named Star of Scotland by artist on the 'Decades' series being recorded by the Vivat label. public vote in 1976.

In 1981, the BBC commissioned a documentary of her work to date, directed by Michael Radford, who went on the become a well known film director. She has also had her own TV series and has appeared as a guest on other TV and radio shows, such as Face the Music and The Michael Parkinson Show.

Isobel lives in Bath, where she teaches privately. She gives masterclasses and workshops throughout the UK and acts as external examiner for the Music Colleges in London.

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Lorna Anderson was born in Glasgow and studied initially at the RSAMD Isobel Buchanan was born in Glasgow and won a scholarship to The with Patricia MacMahon before winning a postgraduate scholarship to Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1971. Whilst there, she the RCM. While still a student, she won a number of awards and attained her Diplomas for teaching and performing, won The Governors’ competitions and has gone on to enjoy a busy and varied career, Recital Prize for Singing and was named Student of the Year 1974. appearing in opera, concert and as a recitalist all over the world. The following year, she auditioned for Richard Bonynge and Joan As a renowned performer of the baroque and classical repertoire in Sutherland who offered her a three year contract to sing with the particular, she has sung as a soloist with all the major orchestras and Australian Opera Company in Sydney. She made her debut as Pamina in ensembles, large and small, in the field including The Orchestra of the Age of The Magic Flute to great acclaim and she went on to sing the role in many of the great Enlightenment, Les Arts Florissants, The Sixteen, The English Concert, The King’s opera houses of the world. Other roles with the AO included Fiordiligi, The Countess, Consort, The London Classical Players, La Chapelle Royale and the Academy of Ancient Zerlina, Micaela, Norina, Gilda, Amelia, Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Blanche Music under conductors which include William Christie, Harry Christophers, Robert (Dialogues of the Carmelites). She sang two seasons for the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Zerlina King,Trevor Pinnock, Philippe Herreweghe, Richard Egarr and Christpher Hogwood. in Don Giovanni and as Adina in L’elisir d’amore with Carlo Bergonzi and later with Luciano Pavarotti, who had requested her for the role, having recorded with her in London Her numerous recordings reflect her love for chamber music and include The Fairy Queen in La Sonnambula with Joan Sutherland. under Harry Christophers, Haydn Masses under Richard Hickox, a disc of Portuguese Love Songs with the Apollo Chamber Orchestra and for Hyperion she has recorded Isobel has appeared with all the major British orchestras and has travelled the world singing Britten Folksong settings with Malcolm Martineau, Handel’s L’Allegro with Robert King with conductors such as Carlos Kleiber, Georg Solti, Andrew Davis, Colin Davis, and is an artist on Graham Johnson’s complete Schubert Edition. As well as being part of Celibidache, John Pritchard, Neville Mariner, Richard Bonynge, and Yehudi Menuhin. She this series of the complete Poulenc songs for Signum Records, she has recorded a disc of has won many prizes and accolades and her recording of the Mahler 2nd Symphony with Debussy songs for Hyperion, again accompanied by Malcolm Martineau. Lorna is also an Solti was awarded the Grande Prix du Disque. She was also named Star of Scotland by artist on the 'Decades' series being recorded by the Vivat label. public vote in 1976.

In 1981, the BBC commissioned a documentary of her work to date, directed by Michael Radford, who went on the become a well known film director. She has also had her own TV series and has appeared as a guest on other TV and radio shows, such as Face the Music and The Michael Parkinson Show.

Isobel lives in Bath, where she teaches privately. She gives masterclasses and workshops throughout the UK and acts as external examiner for the Music Colleges in London.

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JOHN CHEST SARAH CONNOLLY

American baritone John Chest is winner of the prestigious 2010 Stella Dame Sarah Connolly studied piano and singing at the Royal College of Maris International Vocal Competition and was a finalist in the BBC Music, of which she is now a fellow. She was made a DBE in the 2017 Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 2017. He has been awarded a Birthday Honours, having previously been made a CBE in the 2010 New Richard Tucker Music Foundation Career Grant. Until September 2016 Year’s Honours. In 2011 she was presented with the Distinguished he was a member of the ensemble at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where Musician Award by the Incorporated Society of Musicians and she was his roles included the title role of Billy Budd in a new production by the recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s 2012 Singer Award. David Alden, Valentin Faust, Ford Falstaff, Silvio Pagliacci, Figaro Il barbiere di Siviglia, Papageno Die Zauberflöte, Guglielmo Cosi fan tutte, and Renowned as one of the superlative singers of her generation she is © Jan Capinski Il Conte Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro. especially regarded for the roles of Octavian, Komponist, Didon, Mozart’s Sesto, Brangaene, Fricka and Handel’s Ariodante, Serse Ruggiero and Giulio Cesare. Highlights Recent highlights include performances as Guglielmo Cosi fan tutte (Bayerische of her operatic career include performances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Staatsoper), Dr Falke Die Fledermaus (Deutsche Oper Berlin) and his house debut at La Scala, Milan; the Metropolitan Opera, New York; the Bayerische Staatsoper; Paris Glyndebourne Festival as Pelléas Pelléas et Mélisande. Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and the Bayreuth, Aix-en-Provence and Glyndebourne Festivals. Other recent engagements include Albert Werther at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Nick Carraway The Great Gatsby (Staatsoper Dresden), Valentin Faust (Théâtre du She has appeared in recital in London, New York, Boston, Paris, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Capitole Toulouse), the title role of Don Giovanni (Angers Nantes Opera), Marcello Stuttgart and at the Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Edinburgh and Oxford Lieder Festivals. Her La Bohème (Washington National Opera), Fritz Die tote Stadt (Nantes and Nancy), Concert appearances have also taken her to the Lucerne, Salzburg, Tanglewood and Three Nardo La finta giardiniera and Demetrius A Midsummer Night’s Dream (both Aix-en- Choirs Festivals and to the BBC Proms where, in 2009, she was a memorable guest soloist Provence), Eddie in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Greek (Salzburg Landestheater), Ned at the Last Night. Much in demand with the world’s great orchestras she is closely Keene Peter Grimes (Norwegian Opera), Conte Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro (Nationale associated with conductors such as Bolton, Chailly, Colin Davis, Andrew Davis, Elder, Reisopera and Opera Philadelphia), and Masetto Don Giovanni in Bari, Nick Carraway Harding, Herreweghe, Jurowski, Nézet-Séguin and Rattle. The Great Gatsby (Staatsoper Dresden); and a return to Berlin for the title role of Billy Budd. Equally passionate about art song, Chest gave his second recital at the Wigmore Twice nominated for a Grammy Award, she has recorded prolifically. Hall in 2018, following a successful debut recital there in 2013.

Chest is a graduate of the Opera Studio at the Bayerische Staatsoper, where he sang over eighty performances. He has held apprenticeships with the Santa Fe Opera and the Chicago Opera Theater, and took part in the prestigious Merola Opera Programme. He holds a master’s degree in music from the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, where he studied with David Holloway.

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American baritone John Chest is winner of the prestigious 2010 Stella Dame Sarah Connolly studied piano and singing at the Royal College of Maris International Vocal Competition and was a finalist in the BBC Music, of which she is now a fellow. She was made a DBE in the 2017 Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 2017. He has been awarded a Birthday Honours, having previously been made a CBE in the 2010 New Richard Tucker Music Foundation Career Grant. Until September 2016 Year’s Honours. In 2011 she was presented with the Distinguished he was a member of the ensemble at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where Musician Award by the Incorporated Society of Musicians and she was his roles included the title role of Billy Budd in a new production by the recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s 2012 Singer Award. David Alden, Valentin Faust, Ford Falstaff, Silvio Pagliacci, Figaro Il barbiere di Siviglia, Papageno Die Zauberflöte, Guglielmo Cosi fan tutte, and Renowned as one of the superlative singers of her generation she is © Jan Capinski Il Conte Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro. especially regarded for the roles of Octavian, Komponist, Didon, Mozart’s Sesto, Brangaene, Fricka and Handel’s Ariodante, Serse Ruggiero and Giulio Cesare. Highlights Recent highlights include performances as Guglielmo Cosi fan tutte (Bayerische of her operatic career include performances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Staatsoper), Dr Falke Die Fledermaus (Deutsche Oper Berlin) and his house debut at La Scala, Milan; the Metropolitan Opera, New York; the Bayerische Staatsoper; Paris Glyndebourne Festival as Pelléas Pelléas et Mélisande. Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and the Bayreuth, Aix-en-Provence and Glyndebourne Festivals. Other recent engagements include Albert Werther at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Nick Carraway The Great Gatsby (Staatsoper Dresden), Valentin Faust (Théâtre du She has appeared in recital in London, New York, Boston, Paris, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Capitole Toulouse), the title role of Don Giovanni (Angers Nantes Opera), Marcello Stuttgart and at the Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Edinburgh and Oxford Lieder Festivals. Her La Bohème (Washington National Opera), Fritz Die tote Stadt (Nantes and Nancy), Concert appearances have also taken her to the Lucerne, Salzburg, Tanglewood and Three Nardo La finta giardiniera and Demetrius A Midsummer Night’s Dream (both Aix-en- Choirs Festivals and to the BBC Proms where, in 2009, she was a memorable guest soloist Provence), Eddie in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Greek (Salzburg Landestheater), Ned at the Last Night. Much in demand with the world’s great orchestras she is closely Keene Peter Grimes (Norwegian Opera), Conte Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro (Nationale associated with conductors such as Bolton, Chailly, Colin Davis, Andrew Davis, Elder, Reisopera and Opera Philadelphia), and Masetto Don Giovanni in Bari, Nick Carraway Harding, Herreweghe, Jurowski, Nézet-Séguin and Rattle. The Great Gatsby (Staatsoper Dresden); and a return to Berlin for the title role of Billy Budd. Equally passionate about art song, Chest gave his second recital at the Wigmore Twice nominated for a Grammy Award, she has recorded prolifically. Hall in 2018, following a successful debut recital there in 2013.

Chest is a graduate of the Opera Studio at the Bayerische Staatsoper, where he sang over eighty performances. He has held apprenticeships with the Santa Fe Opera and the Chicago Opera Theater, and took part in the prestigious Merola Opera Programme. He holds a master’s degree in music from the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, where he studied with David Holloway.

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After graduating in Archaeology and Anthropology from St John’s College, William Dazeley studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, and the Guildhall Cambridge, Iestyn Davies studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London. School of Music and Drama. His awards include the Guildhall Gold Medal, the Decca/Kathleen Ferrier Prize and the Richard Tauber Prize, An esteemed Handelian, he has astounded audiences globally with his vocal the Royal Overseas League Singing Competition and the Walther Grüner agility in roles such as Orlando, Rinaldo, Ottone/Agrippina and David/Saul. International Lieder Competition. His intelligent and considered interpretations have led to fruitful collaborations with Thomas Adès, George Benjamin and Nico Muhly. William has performed in opera houses across the world, including Covent Garden: Count Cherubin, Marcello La Bohème, Guglielmo Così © Melissa Carpenter In 2015 he delighted London theatre audiences as Farinelli in Farinelli and the King at the fan tutte, Anthony Sweeney Todd, Yeletsky Queen of Spades, Mercutio Romeo et Juliette and Globe Theatre alongside Mark Rylance. He subsequently reprised the role in the West Figaro Il Barbiere di Siviglia; English National Opera: Papageno The Magic Flute; Opera End, for which he received an Olivier Award nomination. North: Faninal Der Rosenkavalier, Alfonso Così fan tutte, Yeletsky, title role Don Giovanni, Posa Don Carlos, Danilo The Merry Widow, Mr Gedge Albert Herring; Welsh National Opera: On the opera stage, he has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, New York; the Lyric L’Ami The Fall of the House Usher, Count Le Nozze di Figaro; Glyndebourne Festival: Baron Opera of Chicago; Teatro alla Scala Milan; the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Douphol La Traviata, Harasta Cunning Little Vixen, Starveling A Midsummer Night’s Dream. English National Opera; Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Welsh National Opera and in In Europe, he has appeared at the Berlin State Opera as Figaro Barbiere and Berlin German Munich, Vienna and Zurich. In 2016, he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in Thomas Opera as Count Figaro and title role Don Giovanni; at the Châtelet as Captain von Trapp Adès’ The Exterminating Angel. The Sound of Music and title role Doktor Faust. Further afield, he has sung Count Figaro for Pittsburgh Opera, Zurga The Pearl Fishers for San Francisco Opera, title role Eugene Onegin Concert engagements have included performances at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan with for New Zealand Opera and Eisenstein Die Fledermaus for the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow. Dudamel, the Concertgebouw and Tonhalle with Koopman and at the Barbican, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Lincoln Centre and at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall with In concert, William has performed with the BBCSO, BBCPO, LSO, the OAE and the orchestras that include the New York Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra. He has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall and the London Philharmonic, Britten Sinfonia, Concerto Köln, Concerto Copenhagen, Ensemble Purcell Room, and has performed in the Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Aix-en-Provence, Matheus, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Academy of Ancient Music and Scottish Salzburg and Saintes festivals. World premières include Jesus in Birtwistle’s The Last Supper Chamber Orchestra. A committed recitalist, his repertoire ranges from Dowland to Clapton (Deutsche Staatsoper and Glyndebourne Festival), and Hosokawa’s Hanjo (Aix-en- and he has performed at Carnegie Hall, New York and enjoys a successful relationship with Provence Festival and Théâtre de la Monnaie). the Wigmore Hall, where in the 2012/13 season he curated his own residency.

He is the recipient of the 2010 Royal Philharmonic Young Artist of the Year Award, the 2012 & 2014 Gramophone Recital Award and the 2013 Critics’ Circle Awards for Exceptional Young Talent (Singer). In 2017 he was awarded an MBE by the Queen for his services to music.

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After graduating in Archaeology and Anthropology from St John’s College, William Dazeley studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, and the Guildhall Cambridge, Iestyn Davies studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London. School of Music and Drama. His awards include the Guildhall Gold Medal, the Decca/Kathleen Ferrier Prize and the Richard Tauber Prize, An esteemed Handelian, he has astounded audiences globally with his vocal the Royal Overseas League Singing Competition and the Walther Grüner agility in roles such as Orlando, Rinaldo, Ottone/Agrippina and David/Saul. International Lieder Competition. His intelligent and considered interpretations have led to fruitful collaborations with Thomas Adès, George Benjamin and Nico Muhly. William has performed in opera houses across the world, including Covent Garden: Count Cherubin, Marcello La Bohème, Guglielmo Così © Melissa Carpenter In 2015 he delighted London theatre audiences as Farinelli in Farinelli and the King at the fan tutte, Anthony Sweeney Todd, Yeletsky Queen of Spades, Mercutio Romeo et Juliette and Globe Theatre alongside Mark Rylance. He subsequently reprised the role in the West Figaro Il Barbiere di Siviglia; English National Opera: Papageno The Magic Flute; Opera End, for which he received an Olivier Award nomination. North: Faninal Der Rosenkavalier, Alfonso Così fan tutte, Yeletsky, title role Don Giovanni, Posa Don Carlos, Danilo The Merry Widow, Mr Gedge Albert Herring; Welsh National Opera: On the opera stage, he has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, New York; the Lyric L’Ami The Fall of the House Usher, Count Le Nozze di Figaro; Glyndebourne Festival: Baron Opera of Chicago; Teatro alla Scala Milan; the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Douphol La Traviata, Harasta Cunning Little Vixen, Starveling A Midsummer Night’s Dream. English National Opera; Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Welsh National Opera and in In Europe, he has appeared at the Berlin State Opera as Figaro Barbiere and Berlin German Munich, Vienna and Zurich. In 2016, he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in Thomas Opera as Count Figaro and title role Don Giovanni; at the Châtelet as Captain von Trapp Adès’ The Exterminating Angel. The Sound of Music and title role Doktor Faust. Further afield, he has sung Count Figaro for Pittsburgh Opera, Zurga The Pearl Fishers for San Francisco Opera, title role Eugene Onegin Concert engagements have included performances at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan with for New Zealand Opera and Eisenstein Die Fledermaus for the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow. Dudamel, the Concertgebouw and Tonhalle with Koopman and at the Barbican, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Lincoln Centre and at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall with In concert, William has performed with the BBCSO, BBCPO, LSO, the OAE and the orchestras that include the New York Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra. He has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall and the London Philharmonic, Britten Sinfonia, Concerto Köln, Concerto Copenhagen, Ensemble Purcell Room, and has performed in the Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Aix-en-Provence, Matheus, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Academy of Ancient Music and Scottish Salzburg and Saintes festivals. World premières include Jesus in Birtwistle’s The Last Supper Chamber Orchestra. A committed recitalist, his repertoire ranges from Dowland to Clapton (Deutsche Staatsoper and Glyndebourne Festival), and Hosokawa’s Hanjo (Aix-en- and he has performed at Carnegie Hall, New York and enjoys a successful relationship with Provence Festival and Théâtre de la Monnaie). the Wigmore Hall, where in the 2012/13 season he curated his own residency.

He is the recipient of the 2010 Royal Philharmonic Young Artist of the Year Award, the 2012 & 2014 Gramophone Recital Award and the 2013 Critics’ Circle Awards for Exceptional Young Talent (Singer). In 2017 he was awarded an MBE by the Queen for his services to music.

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JANIS KELLY LOUISE KEMÉNY

Janis Kelly studied at the RSAMD in her native Glasgow‚ the Royal A graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Louise Kemény is a College of Music and with Elisabeth Grummer in Paris. Widely recog- Britten-Pears Young Artist, Independent Opera Fellow and Yeoman of the nized as one of the great singing actresses of her generation‚ Janis Kelly’s Worshipful Company of Musicians; she won the Ian Smith of Stornoway work continues to take her to the World’s leading Opera Houses‚ as well Opera Prize, Basil A.Turner Prize, Joaninha Trust Prize and David as Hollywood films and Soundtracks. Goldman Award.

Janis received worldwide acclaim for her portrayal of the title role in Operatic engagements include Barbarina Le nozze di Figaro for Dutch Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna‚ which she performed at the National Opera; Teofane Ottone for English Touring Opera; Jano Jenufa for Manchester International Festival (World Premiere)‚ Sadlers Wells‚ Toronto‚ Portland‚ and Scottish Opera and Poppea Agrippina for Iford Arts; Serpetta (cover) La Finta Giardiniera, in concert at ROH and the Teatro Real‚ Madrid‚ and available on CD (Deutsche Elisa (cover) Hipermestra and First Noble Orphan Der Rosenkavalier for Glyndebourne Grammophon). Recent appearances include Mrs Nixon Nixon in China (Metropolitan Festival Opera. She is passionate about the creation and interpretation of new music, and Opera‚ New York, Athens and Amsterdam)‚ Lady Billows Albert Herring (Los Angeles has created 3 lead roles in new operas – Woman Unknown Position and Girl Bonesong (Kate Opera)‚ Berta Il Barbiere di Siviglia‚ Madame Jouvenot Adriana Lecouvreur and Nella Gianni Whitley), and Wife Nauset (Joel Rust) – to critical acclaim. Schicchi (Royal Opera House)‚ Marcellina Le Nozze di Figaro (English National Opera and Garsington), Berta (Glyndebourne Festival) and Hazel George in the World Premiere of Highlights on the concert platform include the soprano solos in Beethoven’s Missa Philip Glass’ The Perfect American (Teatro Real‚ Madrid and ENO). Solemnis with Stephen Cleobury at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, Handel’s Messiah in Bergen with members of the Philharmonic Orchestra, Carmina Burana at Cadogan Hall, Further appearances include Mrs Naidoo Satyagraha, Countess Marriage of Figaro‚ Alcina‚ Mozart’s Mass in C minor at Goldsmith’s Hall, Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Mendelssohn’s Rose Street Scene‚ Mrs Nixon‚ Iris The Fairy Queen‚ Yum Yum The Mikado‚ Despina Cosi Symphony No. 2 “Lobgesang”. A keen exponent of 20th century and contemporary fan Tutte and Romilda Xerxes (ENO), Violetta La Traviata‚ Magda La Rondine‚ Lania Skin repertoire, Kemény has performed Stravinsky’s Les noces with the Royal Scottish National Deep (World Premiere)‚ Magnolia Showboat‚ The Cunning Little Vixen‚ Countess‚ Musetta Orchestra, Schoenberg’s Quartet No.2, Pierrot Lunaire, Ravel’s Trois Poèmes de Mallarmé and La Boheme‚ Marschallin Der Rosenkavalier and Elettra Idomeneo (Opera North), Mrs Lovett Stravinsky’s 3 Japanese Lyrics at Conway Hall. Sweeney Todd (Welsh National Opera)‚ Miss Jessel The Turn of the Screw and Mrs Coyle Owen Wingrave (Théâtre du Capitole‚ Toulouse)‚ Christine Intermezzo (Buxton Festival)‚ A keen recitalist, Kemény has performed at the MozartFest Würzburg, and at St John’s Sister Helen Dead Man Walking (Eugene Opera‚ Oregon); Foreign Princess Rusalka, Alice Smith Square in a solo recital entitled “Dans le Jardin”, inspired by the Royal Academy of Ford Falstaff‚ Miss Jessel and Elisabetta Maria Stuarda (Grange Park). Art’s Painting the Modernist Garden. She has also performed at Wigmore Hall, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, St George’s Hannover Square, and at the Museen der Stadt Janis can be seen as Liu Turandot in the Hollywood blockbuster The Life of David Gale‚ Nürnberg, where she sang Tippet’s The Heart’s Assurance and Britten’s On This Island at the Violetta in Woody Allen’s Match Point and the soundtracks for When Did You Last See Your the Dokumentationszentrum, in commemoration of the First World War. Father, Inspector Morse‚ Lewis and Endeavour.

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Janis Kelly studied at the RSAMD in her native Glasgow‚ the Royal A graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Louise Kemény is a College of Music and with Elisabeth Grummer in Paris. Widely recog- Britten-Pears Young Artist, Independent Opera Fellow and Yeoman of the nized as one of the great singing actresses of her generation‚ Janis Kelly’s Worshipful Company of Musicians; she won the Ian Smith of Stornoway work continues to take her to the World’s leading Opera Houses‚ as well Opera Prize, Basil A.Turner Prize, Joaninha Trust Prize and David as Hollywood films and Soundtracks. Goldman Award.

Janis received worldwide acclaim for her portrayal of the title role in Operatic engagements include Barbarina Le nozze di Figaro for Dutch Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna‚ which she performed at the National Opera; Teofane Ottone for English Touring Opera; Jano Jenufa for Manchester International Festival (World Premiere)‚ Sadlers Wells‚ Toronto‚ Portland‚ and Scottish Opera and Poppea Agrippina for Iford Arts; Serpetta (cover) La Finta Giardiniera, in concert at ROH and the Teatro Real‚ Madrid‚ and available on CD (Deutsche Elisa (cover) Hipermestra and First Noble Orphan Der Rosenkavalier for Glyndebourne Grammophon). Recent appearances include Mrs Nixon Nixon in China (Metropolitan Festival Opera. She is passionate about the creation and interpretation of new music, and Opera‚ New York, Athens and Amsterdam)‚ Lady Billows Albert Herring (Los Angeles has created 3 lead roles in new operas – Woman Unknown Position and Girl Bonesong (Kate Opera)‚ Berta Il Barbiere di Siviglia‚ Madame Jouvenot Adriana Lecouvreur and Nella Gianni Whitley), and Wife Nauset (Joel Rust) – to critical acclaim. Schicchi (Royal Opera House)‚ Marcellina Le Nozze di Figaro (English National Opera and Garsington), Berta (Glyndebourne Festival) and Hazel George in the World Premiere of Highlights on the concert platform include the soprano solos in Beethoven’s Missa Philip Glass’ The Perfect American (Teatro Real‚ Madrid and ENO). Solemnis with Stephen Cleobury at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, Handel’s Messiah in Bergen with members of the Philharmonic Orchestra, Carmina Burana at Cadogan Hall, Further appearances include Mrs Naidoo Satyagraha, Countess Marriage of Figaro‚ Alcina‚ Mozart’s Mass in C minor at Goldsmith’s Hall, Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Mendelssohn’s Rose Street Scene‚ Mrs Nixon‚ Iris The Fairy Queen‚ Yum Yum The Mikado‚ Despina Cosi Symphony No. 2 “Lobgesang”. A keen exponent of 20th century and contemporary fan Tutte and Romilda Xerxes (ENO), Violetta La Traviata‚ Magda La Rondine‚ Lania Skin repertoire, Kemény has performed Stravinsky’s Les noces with the Royal Scottish National Deep (World Premiere)‚ Magnolia Showboat‚ The Cunning Little Vixen‚ Countess‚ Musetta Orchestra, Schoenberg’s Quartet No.2, Pierrot Lunaire, Ravel’s Trois Poèmes de Mallarmé and La Boheme‚ Marschallin Der Rosenkavalier and Elettra Idomeneo (Opera North), Mrs Lovett Stravinsky’s 3 Japanese Lyrics at Conway Hall. Sweeney Todd (Welsh National Opera)‚ Miss Jessel The Turn of the Screw and Mrs Coyle Owen Wingrave (Théâtre du Capitole‚ Toulouse)‚ Christine Intermezzo (Buxton Festival)‚ A keen recitalist, Kemény has performed at the MozartFest Würzburg, and at St John’s Sister Helen Dead Man Walking (Eugene Opera‚ Oregon); Foreign Princess Rusalka, Alice Smith Square in a solo recital entitled “Dans le Jardin”, inspired by the Royal Academy of Ford Falstaff‚ Miss Jessel and Elisabetta Maria Stuarda (Grange Park). Art’s Painting the Modernist Garden. She has also performed at Wigmore Hall, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, St George’s Hannover Square, and at the Museen der Stadt Janis can be seen as Liu Turandot in the Hollywood blockbuster The Life of David Gale‚ Nürnberg, where she sang Tippet’s The Heart’s Assurance and Britten’s On This Island at the Violetta in Woody Allen’s Match Point and the soundtracks for When Did You Last See Your the Dokumentationszentrum, in commemoration of the First World War. Father, Inspector Morse‚ Lewis and Endeavour.

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ANN MURRAY THOMAS OLIEMANS

Ann Murray was born in Dublin and studied with Frederick Cox at the Winner of the 2013 Prix d’Amis of the Dutch National Opera in Royal Manchester College of Music. She has established close links with Amsterdam for his portrayal of Papageno in Simon McBurney’s both the English National Opera, for whom she has sung the title roles in production of Die Zauberflöte, his roles in opera have since included Handel’s Xerxes and Ariodante and Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, and with the Lescaut/Manon, Marcello and Schaunard/La Boheme, Hercule/Alceste, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where her roles have included Gugliemo/Cosi fan tutte, Donner/Das Rheingold, the title role in Hamlet, Cherubino, Dorabella, Donna Elvira, Rosina, Octavian, and new Il Conte di Almaviva and Figaro/Le Nozze di Figaro, Silvio de productions of L’Enfant et les Sortileges, Ariadne auf Naxos, Idomeneo, Nardi/Bomarzo, Mr Redburn/Billy Budd, Eisenstein/Die Fledermaus, Mitridate, Re di Ponto, Cosi fan Tutte, Mose in Egitto, Alcina and Giulio Cesare. Harlequin/Ariadne auf Naxos, Figaro/Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Gunther/Götterdämmerung and Frank/Die Tote Stadt, in houses such as Théâtre du Capitole in Much sought after as a concert singer, she has sung with the Orchestre de Paris under Toulouse, Teatro Real in Madrid, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Göteborg Opera, Royal Opera Kubelik, the Philadelphia Orchestra under Sawallisch, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra House Covent Garden, Scottish Opera, Opéra National du Rhin, Opéra national de Lorraine, under Muti, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Solti, the Royal Concertgebouw and festivals including the Salzburger Festspiele, the Bregenzer Festspiele, Holland Festival and Orchestra under Haitink and in the Musikverein,Vienna under Sawallisch and Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. Harnoncourt. She sings in Great Britain with the leading orchestras, at the BBC Promenade Concerts (where she has sung at both the First and Last Nights of the Proms) In concert, his repertoire includes Shostakovich’s Symphony no 14, Mendelssohn’s Elias, Mahler’s and at the major festivals. orchestral song-cycles, Das Lied von der Erde and 8th Symphony, Bach’s Matthaus- and Johannes- Passion, Beethoven’s Symphony No.9, L’Enfance du Christ and Romeo & Juliette by Berlioz, and Ann Murray’s recital appearances have taken her to Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Geneva, Frank Martin’s Jedermann-Monologe, with leading orchestras in Europe and Asia, and conductors Dresden, Zurich, Frankfurt, Madrid, London, Dublin, the Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Munich such as Charles Dutoit, Jirˇí Beˇlohlávek, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Marc Albrecht, Ivor and Salzburg Festivals and both the Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna. Her Bolton, Frans Brüggen, Hartmut Haenchen, Edo de Waart, Jaap van Zweden, Reinbert de discography reflects not only her broad concert and recital repertoire but also many of her Leeuw, James Gaffigan, Markus Poschner and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. great operatic roles, including Purcell’s Dido under Harnoncourt, Dorabella under Levine, Cherubino under Muti, Hansel under Colin Davis, Sextus under Harnoncourt and Donna A sought-after recitalist, he collaborates with pianists Malcolm Martineau, Roger Vignoles, Elvira under Solti. Rudolf Jansen and Paolo Giacometti, amongst others, in Cambridge, Vienna, Zürich, Basel, Antwerp, Lübeck, London (Wigmore Hall), Tokyo and Paris, and as regular guest at the In 1997 Ann Murray was made an Honorary Doctor of Music by the National University Concertgebouw Amsterdam. of Ireland, in 1998 she was made a Kammersangerin of the Bavarian State Opera and in 1999 an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music. In the 2002 Golden Jubilee Queen’s His discography includes Schubert’s Winterreise and Schwanengesang, an album of song cycles by Birthday Honours she was appointed an honorary Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Francis Poulenc and Gabriel Fauré with pianist Malcolm Martineau, entitled Mirages, substantial Order of the British Empire. In 2004 she was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit. contributions to vols 3, 4 and 5 of the Complete Poulenc series by Signum Classics, an album with the Schumann cycles op 89, 90 and 48, with pianist Paolo Giacometti, Mendelssohn’s Elias with Akamus and the RIAS Kammerchor under Hans-Georg Rademann.

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Ann Murray was born in Dublin and studied with Frederick Cox at the Winner of the 2013 Prix d’Amis of the Dutch National Opera in Royal Manchester College of Music. She has established close links with Amsterdam for his portrayal of Papageno in Simon McBurney’s both the English National Opera, for whom she has sung the title roles in production of Die Zauberflöte, his roles in opera have since included Handel’s Xerxes and Ariodante and Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, and with the Lescaut/Manon, Marcello and Schaunard/La Boheme, Hercule/Alceste, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where her roles have included Gugliemo/Cosi fan tutte, Donner/Das Rheingold, the title role in Hamlet, Cherubino, Dorabella, Donna Elvira, Rosina, Octavian, and new Il Conte di Almaviva and Figaro/Le Nozze di Figaro, Silvio de productions of L’Enfant et les Sortileges, Ariadne auf Naxos, Idomeneo, Nardi/Bomarzo, Mr Redburn/Billy Budd, Eisenstein/Die Fledermaus, Mitridate, Re di Ponto, Cosi fan Tutte, Mose in Egitto, Alcina and Giulio Cesare. Harlequin/Ariadne auf Naxos, Figaro/Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Gunther/Götterdämmerung and Frank/Die Tote Stadt, in houses such as Théâtre du Capitole in Much sought after as a concert singer, she has sung with the Orchestre de Paris under Toulouse, Teatro Real in Madrid, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Göteborg Opera, Royal Opera Kubelik, the Philadelphia Orchestra under Sawallisch, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra House Covent Garden, Scottish Opera, Opéra National du Rhin, Opéra national de Lorraine, under Muti, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Solti, the Royal Concertgebouw and festivals including the Salzburger Festspiele, the Bregenzer Festspiele, Holland Festival and Orchestra under Haitink and in the Musikverein,Vienna under Sawallisch and Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. Harnoncourt. She sings in Great Britain with the leading orchestras, at the BBC Promenade Concerts (where she has sung at both the First and Last Nights of the Proms) In concert, his repertoire includes Shostakovich’s Symphony no 14, Mendelssohn’s Elias, Mahler’s and at the major festivals. orchestral song-cycles, Das Lied von der Erde and 8th Symphony, Bach’s Matthaus- and Johannes- Passion, Beethoven’s Symphony No.9, L’Enfance du Christ and Romeo & Juliette by Berlioz, and Ann Murray’s recital appearances have taken her to Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Geneva, Frank Martin’s Jedermann-Monologe, with leading orchestras in Europe and Asia, and conductors Dresden, Zurich, Frankfurt, Madrid, London, Dublin, the Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Munich such as Charles Dutoit, Jirˇí Beˇlohlávek, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Marc Albrecht, Ivor and Salzburg Festivals and both the Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna. Her Bolton, Frans Brüggen, Hartmut Haenchen, Edo de Waart, Jaap van Zweden, Reinbert de discography reflects not only her broad concert and recital repertoire but also many of her Leeuw, James Gaffigan, Markus Poschner and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. great operatic roles, including Purcell’s Dido under Harnoncourt, Dorabella under Levine, Cherubino under Muti, Hansel under Colin Davis, Sextus under Harnoncourt and Donna A sought-after recitalist, he collaborates with pianists Malcolm Martineau, Roger Vignoles, Elvira under Solti. Rudolf Jansen and Paolo Giacometti, amongst others, in Cambridge, Vienna, Zürich, Basel, Antwerp, Lübeck, London (Wigmore Hall), Tokyo and Paris, and as regular guest at the In 1997 Ann Murray was made an Honorary Doctor of Music by the National University Concertgebouw Amsterdam. of Ireland, in 1998 she was made a Kammersangerin of the Bavarian State Opera and in 1999 an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music. In the 2002 Golden Jubilee Queen’s His discography includes Schubert’s Winterreise and Schwanengesang, an album of song cycles by Birthday Honours she was appointed an honorary Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Francis Poulenc and Gabriel Fauré with pianist Malcolm Martineau, entitled Mirages, substantial Order of the British Empire. In 2004 she was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit. contributions to vols 3, 4 and 5 of the Complete Poulenc series by Signum Classics, an album with the Schumann cycles op 89, 90 and 48, with pianist Paolo Giacometti, Mendelssohn’s Elias with Akamus and the RIAS Kammerchor under Hans-Georg Rademann.

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MALCOLM MARTINEAU

Malcolm Martineau was born in Edinburgh, read Music at St Catharine’s All works recorded in All Saints’ Church, College, Cambridge and studied at the Royal College of Music. East Finchley, London, UK

Recognised as one of the leading accompanists of his generation, he has 31st January - 1st February 2014 Tracks 1, 4, 20-24 worked with many of the world’s greatest singers including Sir Thomas 30th May - 1st June 2013 Track 2 Allen, Dame Janet Baker, Olaf Bar, Barbara Bonney, Ian Bostridge, Angela 8th - 9th October 2015 Tracks 3, 6 Gheorghiu, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson, Della Jones, Simon 5th - 9th February 2013 Tracks 5, 9, 11-12, 14 Keenlyside, Angelika Kirchschlager, Magdalena Kozena, Solveig 13th June 2013 Track 7 Kringelborn, Jonathan Lemalu, Dame Felicity Lott, Christopher 23rd - 25th April 2015 Tracks 8, 10, 13, 17-19 Maltman, Karita Mattila, Lisa Milne, Ann Murray, Anna Netrebko, Anne Sofie von Otter, Joan Rodgers, Amanda Roocroft, Michael Schade, Frederica von Stade, Sarah Walker and Bryn Terfel. 24th May 2015 Tracks 15-16

He has presented his own series at the Wigmore Hall (a Britten and a Poulenc series and Decade by Decade – 100 years of German Song broadcast by the BBC) and at the Edinburgh Festival (the complete lieder of Hugo Wolf). He has appeared throughout Europe (including London’s Wigmore Hall, Barbican, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Royal Opera House; La Scala, Milan; the Producer & Recording Engineer – Andrew Mellor Châtelet, Paris; the Liceu, Barcelona; Berlin’s Philharmonie and Konzerthaus; Amsterdam’s Recording Assistant – Claire Hay Concertgebouw and the Vienna Konzerthaus and Musikverein), North America (including in Editing – Andrew Mellor & Claire Hay New York both Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall), Australia (including the Sydney Opera House) Design & artwork - Darren Rumney and at the Aix- en-Provence, Vienna, Edinburgh, Schubertiade, Munich and Salzburg festivals.

Recording projects have included Schubert, Schumann and English song recitals with Bryn Terfel (for Deutsche Grammophon); Schubert and Strauss recitals with Simon Keenlyside (for EMI); recital recordings with Angela Gheorghiu and Barbara Bonney (for Decca), Magdalena P2018 The copyright in this recording is owned by Signum Records Ltd. Kozena (for DG), Della Jones (for Chandos), Susan Bullock (for Crear Classics), Solveig C Kringelborn (for NMA); Amanda Roocroft (for Onyx); the complete Fauré songs with Sarah 2018 The copyright in this CD booklet, notes and design is owned by Signum Records Ltd. Walker and Tom Krause; the complete Britten Folk Songs for Hyperion; the complete Any unauthorised broadcasting, public performance, copying or re-recording of Signum Compact Discs constitutes an infringement of copyright and will render the infringer liable to an action by law. Licences for public performances or broadcasting may be obtained from Beethoven Folk Songs for Deutsche Grammophon; the complete Poulenc songs for Signum Phonographic Performance Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this booklet may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in Records; the complete Mendelssohn songs for Champs Hill Records; and Britten Song Cycles any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission from Signum Records Ltd. as well as Schubert’s Winterreise with Florian Boesch for Onyx. SignumClassics, He was a given an honorary doctorate at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Signum Records Ltd, Suite 14, 21 Wadsworth Road, Perivale, Middx UB6 7JD, UK. 2004, and appointed International Fellow of Accompaniment in 2009. Malcolm was the Artistic +44 (0) 20 8997 4000 E-mail: [email protected] Director of the 2011 Leeds Lieder+ Festival. www.signumrecords.com 34

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Malcolm Martineau was born in Edinburgh, read Music at St Catharine’s All works recorded in All Saints’ Church, College, Cambridge and studied at the Royal College of Music. East Finchley, London, UK

Recognised as one of the leading accompanists of his generation, he has 31st January - 1st February 2014 Tracks 1, 4, 20-24 worked with many of the world’s greatest singers including Sir Thomas 30th May - 1st June 2013 Track 2 Allen, Dame Janet Baker, Olaf Bar, Barbara Bonney, Ian Bostridge, Angela 8th - 9th October 2015 Tracks 3, 6 Gheorghiu, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson, Della Jones, Simon 5th - 9th February 2013 Tracks 5, 9, 11-12, 14 Keenlyside, Angelika Kirchschlager, Magdalena Kozena, Solveig 13th June 2013 Track 7 Kringelborn, Jonathan Lemalu, Dame Felicity Lott, Christopher 23rd - 25th April 2015 Tracks 8, 10, 13, 17-19 Maltman, Karita Mattila, Lisa Milne, Ann Murray, Anna Netrebko, Anne Sofie von Otter, Joan Rodgers, Amanda Roocroft, Michael Schade, Frederica von Stade, Sarah Walker and Bryn Terfel. 24th May 2015 Tracks 15-16

He has presented his own series at the Wigmore Hall (a Britten and a Poulenc series and Decade by Decade – 100 years of German Song broadcast by the BBC) and at the Edinburgh Festival (the complete lieder of Hugo Wolf). He has appeared throughout Europe (including London’s Wigmore Hall, Barbican, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Royal Opera House; La Scala, Milan; the Producer & Recording Engineer – Andrew Mellor Châtelet, Paris; the Liceu, Barcelona; Berlin’s Philharmonie and Konzerthaus; Amsterdam’s Recording Assistant – Claire Hay Concertgebouw and the Vienna Konzerthaus and Musikverein), North America (including in Editing – Andrew Mellor & Claire Hay New York both Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall), Australia (including the Sydney Opera House) Design & artwork - Darren Rumney and at the Aix- en-Provence, Vienna, Edinburgh, Schubertiade, Munich and Salzburg festivals.

Recording projects have included Schubert, Schumann and English song recitals with Bryn Terfel (for Deutsche Grammophon); Schubert and Strauss recitals with Simon Keenlyside (for EMI); recital recordings with Angela Gheorghiu and Barbara Bonney (for Decca), Magdalena P2018 The copyright in this recording is owned by Signum Records Ltd. Kozena (for DG), Della Jones (for Chandos), Susan Bullock (for Crear Classics), Solveig C Kringelborn (for NMA); Amanda Roocroft (for Onyx); the complete Fauré songs with Sarah 2018 The copyright in this CD booklet, notes and design is owned by Signum Records Ltd. Walker and Tom Krause; the complete Britten Folk Songs for Hyperion; the complete Any unauthorised broadcasting, public performance, copying or re-recording of Signum Compact Discs constitutes an infringement of copyright and will render the infringer liable to an action by law. Licences for public performances or broadcasting may be obtained from Beethoven Folk Songs for Deutsche Grammophon; the complete Poulenc songs for Signum Phonographic Performance Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this booklet may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in Records; the complete Mendelssohn songs for Champs Hill Records; and Britten Song Cycles any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission from Signum Records Ltd. as well as Schubert’s Winterreise with Florian Boesch for Onyx. SignumClassics, He was a given an honorary doctorate at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Signum Records Ltd, Suite 14, 21 Wadsworth Road, Perivale, Middx UB6 7JD, UK. 2004, and appointed International Fellow of Accompaniment in 2009. Malcolm was the Artistic +44 (0) 20 8997 4000 E-mail: [email protected] Director of the 2011 Leeds Lieder+ Festival. www.signumrecords.com 34

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