Visages Marie-Claude Solanet

• 1 L'ombre plus dense 06:15
• 2 Les pavots 03:34
• 3 Quelque antique et lente danse 03:58
• 4 No. 1. Sur une tombe 03:40
• 5 No. 2. Ronde 04:06
• 6 3 Poèmes: No. 3. Nocturne (version for voice and piano quintet) 04:43
• 7 Chanson triste, Op. 2, No. 4 (version for voice and piano) 04:24
• 8 La vie antérieure 03:19
• 9 Soupir, Op. 2, No. 1 02:57
• 10 Phidylé (version for voice and piano) 05:04
• 11 Au pays où se fait la guerre 04:45
• 12 No. 1. Der Engel (The Angel) 02:56
• 13 No. 2. Stehe still (Stand Still) 03:48
• 14 No. 3. Im Treibhaus (In the Hothouse) 04:10
• 15 No. 4. Schmerzen (Pain) 02:07
• 16 No. 5. Träume (Dreams) 04:15
• Total Runtime 01:04:01

Info for Visages

Is it in encounters that a being happens to himself ? In crossed dreams, the intimacy of faces is sometimes found. And reveals hidden desires. This album, devoted to Guillaume Lekeu, was born of a happy, fruitful feminine complicity. The gaze of two women, one a singer, the other a pianist, comes to rest on the exaltation of the Belgian composer who died too young to have known the intensity of an absolute love. Lekeu was 18 when he wrote to his friend Aristide Guéry claiming that he did not really believe in love incarnate:‘I love and shall always love - I can swear it - one woman alone: it’s Isolde or Phaedra, whichever you wish, it doesn’t matter. In a word, woman immaterialised and purified by art [...]’ (22 May 1888). At 23, a year before dying of typhoid fever, he confided to Alphonse Voncken in his abundant correspondence:‘Will I ever do what I want to do? Will I be an artist? All the suffering of my life is there [...], the pursuit of this mysterious, divine thing that is called, even though the word is strangely ridiculous:“the Ideal”’(26 April 1893). Soprano Marie-Claude Solanet has taken this highly touching wish as a challenge in choosing to interpret six of his mélodies, written between 1887 and 1892, some of them unpublished. ….

Marie-Claude Solanet, soprano
Marie-Claude Roy, piano
Tana String Quartet (on track 6)

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Booklet for Visages