Opium: Mélodies francaises

Opium: Mélodies francaises

Opium: Mélodies francaises
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Performer: Philippe Jaroussky
Performer: Jérôme Ducros
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2009-04-07
Music Label: Virgin Classics
Soundtracks:
  1. À Chloris
  2. Sombrero (1894)
  3. Elégie (1869)
  4. Nell Op.18 No.1 (1880)
  5. Le Colibri Op.2 No.7
  6. Automne Op.18 No.3 (1880)
  7. Mignonne (1894)
  8. Fêtes galantes (Mandoline) (1892)
  9. Le temps de lilas
  10. Les Papillons Op.2 No.3
  11. Viens, une flûte invisible (1900)
  12. Les heures Op.27 No.1
  13. Quand je fus pris au pavillon (Douze rondels, no.8)
  14. Offrande (1891)
  15. Tournoiement 'Songe d'opium' Op.26 No.6 (Mélodies persanes, 1870)
  16. Romance (Deux Romance No.2, 1891)
  17. Sonnet (Amours, Premier Livre, CLXIX)
  18. Nuit d'Espagne (1869)
  19. Sur une tombe (Trois poèmes, No.1 - 1892)
  20. Violons dans le soir (1907)
  21. Nocturne (1884)
  22. Les donneurs de Sérénade (Mandoline) (1901)
  23. Lied maritime Op.43
  24. L'heure exquise (Chansons grises, no.5)

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Free Music Review: Schmaltz is Schmaltz However Well-Sung
Hit: 5 Stars

I'm a raving fan of Philppe Jaroussky. That's why I bought this CD, with no clear idea of what was on it. The Belle Epoch repertoire of the 19th C is less familiar to me than 14th C Ars Subtilior or Balinese gamelan. Now that Jaroussky has made his case for it, I remember why I've shunned it. It's all scented doilies and antimacassars. It's the music Henry James ignored while gossiping with Oscar Wilde, if they ever met. It should be sung by someone who looks like a portrait by John Singer Sargeant. In short, it's maudlin and mannered. Yes, yes, it's quite artful, and musically it's not unsophisticated, but I just don't like it much.

Jaroussky sings it impeccably, perhaps better than anyone ever has. That's not necessarily a good thing. It seems to me that this repertoire requires an oxymoronic combination of naive sophistication. The singer needs to reek of over-ripe elegance, yet the musical technique can't sound too studied. Vocal polish is for proletarians.

And I confess that I'm uncomfortable with a male voice singing this salon-diva repertoire. That Sargeant portrait in my imagination is of a slender woman in gray silk. Jaroussky is a soprano, but his voice is ineluctably masculine; that's his greatest asset. On this CD, he dresses his superb voice in drag.

But "de gustibus non disputandum". It's clearly a five-star piece of work.
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Opium: Mélodies francaises Poster

Acclaimed countertenor Philippe Jaroussky makes the leap from the Baroque to the Belle Époque for this program of French songs. In his company are four of the leading French instrumentalists of the younger generation: Jérôme Ducros, Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon,and Emmanuel Pahud!

With over 200,000 sales worldwide, Jaroussky is an international star, and the ethereal, sensuous beauty of his voice lends itself perfectly to the voluptuous, decadent music in these songs -- including a number of rarities by composers such as Dukas, Caplet, and Chaminade, as well as betterknown numbers by figures like Fauré, Chausson, and Hahn.

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