Massenet: 20 Mélodies / 20 Lieder (reference recording: Francis Dudziak, Jean-Bernard Dartigolles)

Описание: Jules Massenet (1842-1912) 20 Mélodies
00:00 I. Voici que les grands lys (Poème d'Avril n° 3)
02:17 II. On dit
05:29 III. Je me suis plaint aux tourterelles
06:34 IV. La nuit, sans doute, était trop belle
08:15 V. Ouvre tes yeux bleus ma mignonne
09:43 VI. Puisqu'elle a pris ma vie
11:09 VII. Pourquoi pleures-tu ?
12:17 VIII. Oh ! ne finis jamais
14:30 IX. L’improvisateur, "souvenir du Transtévère"
17:11 X. Nuit d'Espagne
20:37 XI. Elégie
22:38 XII. Déclaration (Chants intimes n° 1)
24:27 XIII. A Mignonne (Chants intimes n° 2)
25:36 XIV. Souhait
27:44 XV. Un Adieu
29:16 XVI. Sérénade d'Automne
31:13 XVII. Sonnet
34:10 XVIII. Si tu veux, mignonne
36:38 XIX. Pensée d'Automne
40:41 XX. Soir de rêve

Baryton: Francis Dudziak
Piano: Jean-Bernard Dartigolles
Soprano: Catherine Dubosc (V, VIII)
Cello: Cyrille Lacrouts (II)
Recorded in 1991, at Paris
New mastering in 2025 by AB for CMRR
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In his seminal work La mélodie française de Berlioz à Duparc, Frits Noske considers Massenet, more than Bizet or Delibes, to be the true successor of Gounod in the field of the mélodie, and adds: “the essence of his style is not local, picturesque, or exotic color, but lies in the expression of a delicate sentimentality, achieved with extreme refinement.”

This synthetic view cannot suffice to characterize the some 260 mélodies scattered by Massenet over fifty years of career, but it does define the boundaries of a world in which the weakness and mawkishness of the poems tend to mask, for the inattentive listener, a musical imagination that is always alert. Roses, kisses, hair, caresses: commonplaces abound in these mélodies in which the text is often merely a pretext for small tableaux, and in which the quality of the musical writing, as well as the accuracy of an impeccable prosody, compensate for the literary banality. In their time, these shortcomings did not prevent Massenet’s mélodies, published as soon as they were written (sometimes in four or five keys), from enjoying a success that can truly be described as “phenomenal.”

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