Under heavy Viennese skies or in Berlin smoky cabarets, Berg, Ullmann and Weill dive into the "soul of the Seine sewers in Paris" or into the very depths of Louise Labe's enamoured soul. They "search for oblivion everywhere"… each of them pursuing the hoped-for Youkali in a dark period of history which is so close to our own.
This is how the soprano singer Margaux Poguet captures heat: she offers us a bundle of Lieder coming from the lushest post-Romantic forest, lit with a sparkle of raw expressionism and sulphurous
realism.
Ravel is as fascinating as mysterious: as an absolute music genius and an idealist, he draws his inspiration from his origins and mixes his original accents with the dreamy and the exotic like an
alchemist. By exploring all of his compositions for instrumental chamber music, this album by Ensemble Sesame aims to reflect his endless orchestral colors, nuancing sometimes lively and rhythmic
flavours and sometimes sweet and spicy.
CD1
Ma mere l'Oye
01 Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant 01:39
02 Petit Poucet 02:49
03 Laideronnette, Imperatrice des Pagodes 03:26
04 Les Entretiens de la Belle et de la Bete 04:01
05 Le Jardin feerique 03:14
06 Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Faure 02:52
07 Sonate n°1 « posthume » pour violon et piano 12:50
08 Introduction et allegro 11:16
Total timing 42:07
CD2
Sonate n°2 pour violon et piano
01 Allegretto 08:09
02 Blues 05:15
03 Perpetuum mobile 03:57
Trio en la mineur
04 Modere 09:30
05 Pantoum 04:37
06 Passacaille 07:02
07 Final 05:35
08 Entre cloches 02:33
09 Frontispice 01:38
Rapsodie espagnole
10 Prelude a la nuit 04:10
11 Malagueña 02:03
12 Habanera 02:49
13 Feria 06:52
Total timing 64:09
CD3
01 Tzigane 10:11
Quatuor a cordes
02 Allegro moderato 08:09
03 Assez vif. Tres rythme 06:20
04 Tres lent 08:43
05 Vif et agite 04:41
Sonate pour violon et violoncelle
06 Allegro 05:00
07 Tres vif 03:30
08 Lent 05:37
09 Vif. Avec entrain 05:49
Total timing 57:59