L'invitation au voyage, so-called because the first and last tracks as well as two tracks in-between are settings of Baudelaire's poem of the same name from Les fleurs du mal, bears the subtitle "Mélodies from La belle époque," that is, songs from the period between the Franco-Prussian War and the Great War. The for the most part nearly unknown composers represented here can be separated into two groups: those with beards and those without beards. Those with beards tend to write pop-oriented songs with instantly memorable ...
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L'invitation au voyage, so-called because the first and last tracks as well as two tracks in-between are settings of Baudelaire's poem of the same name from Les fleurs du mal, bears the subtitle "Mélodies from La belle époque," that is, songs from the period between the Franco-Prussian War and the Great War. The for the most part nearly unknown composers represented here can be separated into two groups: those with beards and those without beards. Those with beards tend to write pop-oriented songs with instantly memorable tunes, ingratiating chord changes, infectious rhythms, and immediately graspable forms. Those without beards tend to write art-oriented songs with yearning themes, restless harmonies, supple rhythms, and elusive forms. But with or without beards, the composers invariably write mélodies that are sweet, light, clear, and, despite chromatic flirtations with Wagner, quintessentially French. The same cannot be said of the performances by tenor John Mark Ainsley and pianist Graham Johnson....
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