Debussy, Ravel, Fauré: French Songs for Flute & Harp

‘Chansons sans paroles’: masterpieces of 20th-century song in original arrangements for a quintessentially French instrumental combination, in new recordings by a talented young Italian duo.

Composers: Debussy, Fauré, Ravel
Artists: Andrea Manco (flute), Stefania Scapin (harp)

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Stefania Scapin’s performance on YouTube of Debussy’s Clair de lune eloquently demonstrates how sympathetically the impressionist writing of French composers translates to the harp in the right hands. Here in partnership with the flautist Andrea Manco, who joined the Orchestra of La Scala Milan in 2014, she presents some of the best-loved masterpieces by three giants of turn-of-the-century French music. An opening trio of Debussy numbers includes the evergreen Rêverie, ideally suited to the dreamy colours of flute and harp. The Arabesque which would usually form an ‘instrumental interlude’ precedes the two brief but voluptuously harmonised Romances.

The Cinq Mèlodies Populaires Grecques and Deux Mèlodies Hèbraïques by Ravel make a piquant contrast with their much more melismatic writing for the melody instrument, exotically soaring above the accompaniment. The album ends in a mood of refined melancholy with seven songs by Fauré, including another Clair de lune as well as Chanson d’amour and the unavoidable Après un rêve, subject before now of countless arrangements which have rarely captured the rapturous ecstasy of the original like this transcription.

As Stefania Scapin observes in her booklet notes, the flute becomes the voice of the poetic text without expressly 'speaking'. It nevertheless communicates the poetic meaning through those melodious qualities which distinguish it as an extension of the human voice. The harp becomes a secure but suspended base between the here and now of the plucked string and an unpredictable and mysterious continuation of sound. This delicate balance of sound and memory belongs to the language of the French impressionists, and these performances will afford delight as well as insight into the original songs.

Tracklist:
Composer: Claude Debussy
00:00:00 Nuit d’étoiles
00:03:29 Rêverie
00:07:50 Beau soir
00:10:24 Arabesque I
00:14:53 2 Romances: I. Romance
00:16:41 2 Romances: II. Les cloches

Composer: Maurice Ravel
00:18:29 5 Mélodies populaires grecques: I. Chanson de la mariée
00:20:19 5 Mélodies populaires grecques: II. Là-bas, vers l’église
00:21:38 5 Mélodies populaires grecques: III. Quel galant m’est comparable
00:22:28 5 Mélodies populaires grecques: IV Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques
00:25:13 5 Mélodies populaires grecques: V Tout gai!
00:26:23 2 Mélodies hébraïques: I Kaddisch
00:30:57 2 Mélodies hébraïques: II. L’énigme éternelle

Composer: Gabriel Fauré
00:32:10 Les berceaux in B-Flat Minor
00:35:08 Sicilienne, Op. 78
00:38:59 Clair de lune
00:42:03 En prière
00:44:24 Chanson d’amour
00:46:29 Notre amour
00:48:40 Après un rêve

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