This 2004 effort, devoted to the songs of Fauré, Debussy, and Poulenc, was Ian Bostridge's first full album of French Song. He brings the same eager devotion to poetry and musical intelligence to this repertory that have informed his recordings of German and English song in the past, but the results are mixed.Debussy's second book of Fêtes galantes, which opens the program doesn't fare well. The three poems deal with some of the most ephemeral sentiments ever set to music: the youthful discovery of sexual desire, as ...
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This 2004 effort, devoted to the songs of Fauré, Debussy, and Poulenc, was Ian Bostridge's first full album of French Song. He brings the same eager devotion to poetry and musical intelligence to this repertory that have informed his recordings of German and English song in the past, but the results are mixed.Debussy's second book of Fêtes galantes, which opens the program doesn't fare well. The three poems deal with some of the most ephemeral sentiments ever set to music: the youthful discovery of sexual desire, as stimulated by exposed necks and whispered words; the insinuating eroticism of a Faun; a brief glimpse of ghosts whose worldly relationship is still unresolved. These are songs that blow away at even a hint of breeze, and Bostridge's voice is all too real for them -- too opaque, too muscled to manage the delicate transparency required. Capturing Francis Poulenc's uniquely attractive wit is the key to his songs -- from the understated poignancy of the war-time "C" and tongue-twisting gallop...
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