Rhené BATON Mélodies

Conductor of international stature - from Rome to Riga, from Nantes to Edinburgh - andregionalist composer, it is defined as: "In Britain alone, I feel at home. Elsewhere, I have a very distinct sensation of living in a little stranger. "... "My life is all too mobile to allow me to live in Britain more than a few months a year." There he composedchamber music and orchestral works, among others, Variations for piano and orchestra (1902) noticed by Alfred Cortot and admired by Claude Debussy. Goldsmithin the art of balancing the desks of his orchestra, it is no less concise in his speech.His masterpiece "For the funeral of a Breton sailor" (1925) demonstrates a language at once simple, direct and profound. The selection of 37 songs presented here,composed between 1903 and 1922, shows a very delicate sense of atmospheres and landscapes and a great mastery of writing. Sonia de Beaufort (mezzo) and BrunoSchweyer (piano) happily reveal the art of intimacy, expression and deductionshalftone, which moves the listener with a kind of evidence in the phrasing and presentgreat count that gives these songs their all natural. DDD 70:52 / Booklet-French-German