Mathieu Romano, Ensemble Aedes, Les Siècles
AP201 - 1CD - 59' - Mar 1, 2019
A 100% French cast for a disc of 100% French music, and a triple rediscovery. Written for pleasure, Fauré's Requiem offers gentle poetry and moments of contemplation entrusted to both the choir and the two vocal soloists. Committed to restoring the work as faithfully as possible to its first performance, Ensemble Aedes and Les Siècles, under the baton of Mathieu Romano, present the Requiem in its original 1893 orchestration, on period instruments, with Latin pronounced in the French style as it was at the time of its creation. The exceptional articulation of the Aedes singers then perfectly matches the human figure. The text of these poems by Éluard, set to music by Poulenc, has never been heard so clearly! Debussy's Trois Chansons close the disc with elegance. Here again, the quality and clarity of the vocal material astound. Mathieu Romano, artistic director and founder of Aedes, is a magician of voices, at once powerful and intimate in the a cappella scores, and consoling in their marriage with the strings of Les Siècles. A must-see!
GABRIEL FAURÉ Requiem, op. 48 (version de 1893 sur instruments d’époque)
1. Introït – Kyrie
2. Offertoire
3. Sanctus
4. Pie Jesu
5. Agnus Dei
6. Libera me
7. In paradisum
FRANCIS POULENC Figure humaine. Cantate pour double chœur mixte a cappella
8. De tous les printemps du monde
9. En chantant les servantes s’élancent
10. Aussi bas que le silence
11. Toi ma patiente
12. Riant du ciel et des planètes
13. Le jour m’étonne et la nuit me fait peur
14. La menace sous le ciel rouge
15. Liberté
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Trois Chansons de Charles d’Orléans
16. Dieu ! qu’il la fait bon regarder ! (1898, première version)
17. Quand j’ai ouy le tabourin
18. Yver, vous n’estes qu’un villain (1898, première version)
