Marianne Crebassa - Secrets on CD

Description

Mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa and pianist Fazıl Say share some tantalising, captivating and sensuous Secrets in this album of songs, centred on Debussy’s Trois Chansons de Bilitis, Ravel’s Shéhérazade and Fazıl Say’s own Gezi Park 3 – which he and Crebassa premiered in 2014. Describing the recording sessions, Marianne Crebassa says: “Sometimes we worked in a kind of trance … there were some moments when nothing seemed to exist around us …” Secrets includes Debussy’s discreetly erotic Trois Chansons de Bilitis, settings of texts by Pierre Louÿs that were inspired by ancient Greek literature, and Ravel’s sumptuous Shéhérazade, three contrasting songs that conjure up exotic moods rather than retelling the stories of the 1001 Nights. They are joined by a work by Fazıl Say that is inspired by his native Turkey, but which moves away from the spirit of legend and fantasy: Gezi Park 3 belongs to a series of works that he composed in response to the momentous civil protests that took place in in Istanbul in June 2013. Say and Crebassa gave its premiere in Bremen in September 2014, where it was heard as a ‘Ballad for mezzo-soprano, piano and orchestra’. Crebassa’s part is a wordless vocalise and the work is recorded here in a version for voice and piano . Gramophone Award Nominee 2018

Track Listings
1 3 chansons de Bilitis, L 90: I La Flute de Pan
2 3 chansons de Bilitis, L. 90: II. La Chevelure
3 chansons de Bilitis, L 90: III Le Tombeau des naiades
4 Sheherazade, M 17: I Asie
5 Sheherazade, M 17: II La Flute enchantee
6 Sheherazade, M 17: III L'Indifferent
7 3 Melodies de Verlaine, L 81: I La mer est plus belle que les cathedrales
8 3 Melodies de Verlaine, L 81: II Le son du cor s'afflige vers les bois
9 3 Melodies de Verlaine, L 81: III L'echelonnement des haies moutonne a l'infini
10 Vocalise-etude en forme de Habanera, M 51
11 Mirages, Op. 113: I. Cygne sur l'eau
12 Mirages, Op. 113: II. Reflets dans l'eau
13 Mirages, Op. 113: III. Jardin nocturne
14 Mirages, Op. 113: IV. Danseuse
15 Melodies: XIII Au pays ou se fait la guerre
16 Melodies: VII Lamento
17 Melodies: X Elegie
18 Melodies: IX Chanson triste
19 Gezi Park 3