Melancolie

Melancolie

Melancolie
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Performer: Stephen Varcoe
Composer: Samuel Barber
Composer: Gabriel Faure
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer: Henry Purcell
Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer: Pascal Dusapin
Composer: Claude Debussy
Composer: Stephane Grappelli
Composer: George Frederick Handel
Composer: Robert Schumann
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer: Nicola Porpora
Composer: Jean Sibelius
Composer: John Dowland
Composer: Frederic Chopin
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Composer: Gustav Mahler
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-02-21
Music Label: Valois
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Agnus Dei - Choeur de Chambre Accentus
  2. Elegie In C Minor Op.24 - Anne Gastinel
  3. Ach, Ich Fuhl's - Sandrine Piau
  4. What Power Art Thou - Stephen Varcoe
  5. Danza Degli Spettri E Delle Furie - Il Giardino Armonico
  6. Cum Dederit (Andante) - Dara Mingardo
  7. Andante - Fazil Say
  8. Lacrimosa - Chorus Musicus Koln
  9. La Malincolia - Quatuor Mosaïques
  10. La Melancholia - Martyn Hill
  11. Des Pas Sur La Neige - Noel Lee
  12. Les Valseuses, Musique Originale Du Film De Bertrand Blier - Laurent Korcia
Music CD 2
  1. Lascia Ch'io Pianga - Maria Bayo
  2. Ausserst Bewegt - Laurent Cabasso
  3. Erbarme Dich - Angela Kazimiercszuk
  4. Alto Giove - Derek Lee Ragin
  5. La Valse Triste, Op.44 No.1 - Turku Philharmonic Orchestra
  6. Flow My Tears - Gerard Lesne
  7. Largo - Grigory Sokolov
  8. Amor, Dicea (Excerpt) - Concerto Italiano
  9. Adagietto - Jean-Francois Chiama
  10. La Lugubre Gondola - Pierre-Laurent Aimard
  11. Second Movement - Adela Anthony
  12. Cradle Song Op.16 No.1 - Lina Mkrtchyan

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Music Review: A Terrific 2-CD Sampler from Naïve
Rating: 5 Stars

This two CD sampler is a terrific way to become familiar with some of the CDs available on the wonderful French label Naïve. And the idea for the sampler is that it contains primarily music that could generally be considered melancholy or restful or soothing, depending on your take on the individual works presented here. Some of these excerpts are old friends as I am fond of much of the Naive catalog which includes recordings by the fabulous French a cappella Accentus Choir; the amazing pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard; the American pianist long resident in France, Noël Lee; Rinaldo Alessandrini's baroque group, Concerto Italiano as well as Christophe Rousset's Les Talens Lyriques; cellist Anne Gastinel; impressive singers like soprano Sandrine Piau, tenor Martyn Hill, contralto Sara Mingardo, Spanish soprano Maria Bayo, counter-tenor Derek Lee Ragin, and others. And even though his excerpt (Chopin's Prelude, Op. 28, No. 4) is short, the transcendent playing of pianist Grigory Sokolov, surely one of the world's greatest pianists, is worth the price of this budget release all by itself.

Another highlight, familiar to me from its original release on a full CD of transcriptions sung by Accentus, is Gerard Passon's choral arrangement of the Adagietto from Mahler's Fifth Symphony. Even you Mahler fans who are purists will be impressed with this lovely performance. As well Accentus performs Barber's choral arrangement of his 'Adagio for Strings' which uses the words of the 'Agnus Dei.' Sumptuously, movingly sung here.

I was surprised that I enjoyed a piece composed by Stephane Grappelli, the jazz violinist (a genre I generally abhor). It was composed for a movie score and is entirely winning as played by violinist Laurent Korcia and pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Another 'arrangement' that I was unfamiliar with was Mendelssohn's reworking of the marvelous contralto aria from the St. Matthew Passion, 'Erbarme dich.' I frankly cannot hear how it differs from the original (and as I've just moved and all my CDs and scores are still in unopened boxes) I could not make a direct comparison. Soprano Angela Kazimierczuk sings like an angel in this beloved aria.

The booklet notes, translated from the French, are unfortunately the typical pseudo-philosophic twaddle so familiar from French liner notes. My advice would be to ignore them. But don't let my opinion of the notes deter you from obtaining this delightful issue.

Scott Morrison

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