New Album Releases: IDYLLE (Lea Desandre & Thomas Dunford)

BUY NOW FROM AMAZON

Artist:
Lea Desandre
Thomas Dunford

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
64:26

Record Label:
Erato

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Apple Music

Release Date
October 13, 2023




"The Entertainment Factor is supported by its audience. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission."

Find out more about this album release after the jump.

Purchasing Links

---

Buy the CD from Amazon  •

---

Buy the MP3 from Amazon  •

---

Buy the Album from Apple Music •

---

Product Description: French love songs from three centuries, interspersed with reflective lute solos, constitute an Idylle for mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre and lutenist Thomas Dunford. As they explain: "The emotions of love are explored in different forms - languor, desire, fascination, happiness." The word 'idyll', evoking a blissful, tranquil experience, derives from Ancient Greece and poetry on a pastoral theme. Desandre and Dunford spin a thematic and musical thread between eras and styles, starting with a sequence of 10 airs de cour from the 17th century. Spanning the era from the 1860s to the 1920s are arias and songs by Offenbach, Debussy, Hahn and Messager, and the album then fast-forwards to the 1960s and two iconic French chanteuses, Barbara and Françoise Hardy. Dunford supplies instrumental interludes in the form of two dances by Robert de Visée, a court musician for both Louis XIV and Louis XV, and Erik Satie's Gymnopédie No 1 and Gnossienne No 1.

TRACK LIST:

---

1 . Le doux silence de nos bois (04:09)

2 . Études latines: No. 2, Néère (03:29)

3 . Le temps de l'amour (02:15)

4 . 6 .Gnossiennes: No. 1, Lent Thomas Dunford (03:18)

5 . Celle qui fait tout mon tourment, H. 450 . (02:24)

6 . Auprès du feu l'on fait l'amour, H. 446 . (01:54)

7 . Tristes déserts, sombre retraite, H. 469 . (03:10)

8 . L'Amour masqué, Act 1: "J'ai deux amants" (Elle) (02:25)

9 . 3 .Gymnopédies: No. 1, Lent et douloureux Thomas Dunford (03:13)

10 . Ma bergère est tendre et fidèle (02:03)

11 . À Chloris (03:12)

12 . Sans frayeur dans ce bois, H. 467 . (03:40)

13 . Suite No. 7 .en ré mineur: III. Sarabande Thomas Dunford (02:01)

14 . Le premier bonheur du jour (01:46)

15 . On n'entend rien dans ce bocage (03:58)

16 . Pelléas et Mélisande, 93, L. 88, Act 3: "Mes longs cheveux descendent" (Mélisande) (01:15)

17 . Ombre de mon amant (03:06)

18 . Vos mépris chaque jour (02:38)

19 . Suite No. 7 .en ré mineur: V. Chaconne Thomas Dunford (03:10)

20 . is, quand reviendras-tu ? (03:07)

21 . Laissez durer la nuit (04:53)

22 .La Belle Hélène, Act 1: "Amours divins !" (Hélène) (03:30)

---

     OTHER ALBUM RELEASES:

• New Album Releases: CHAUSSON, RAVEL - PIANO TRIOS (Trio Metral)
• New Album Releases: NIGHT IN THE CITY (Robben Ford)
• New Album Releases: BACH - GOLDBERG VARIATIONS (Víkingur Ólafsson)
• New Album Releases: POULENC - LA VOIX HUMAINE; FIANCAILLES POUR RIRE (Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, Frédéric Chaslin, La Fenice Theater Orchestra)
• New Album Releases: SCHUBERT - DIE SCHONE MULLERIN (Samuel Hasselhorn, Ammiel Bushakevitz)
• New Album Releases: PINK FRIDAY 2 (Nicki Minaj)
• New Album Releases: BEFORE AND AFTER (Neil Young)
• New Album Releases: THINK LATER (Tate McRae)
• New Album Releases: REBEL DIAMONDS (The Killers)
• New Album Releases: RAT WARS (Health)
• New Album Releases: FOLK SONGS (Magdalena Kožená, Simon Rattle, Czech Philharmonic)
• New Album Releases: SARDINES (Apollo Brown, Planet Asia)
• New Album Releases: JOHN PICKARD - MASS IN TROUBLED TIMES (BBC Singers & Martyn Brabbins)
• New Album Releases: ACCOMPANY (Michael Nau)
• New Album Releases: SCHUBERT - LIEDER WITH ORCHESTRA (Benjamin Appl, Oscar Jockel, Munich Radio Orchestra)
• New Album Releases: PHONOX NIGHTS (Nina Walsh, Andrew Weatherall, The Woodleigh Research Facility)
• New Album Releases: MOZART - PIANO CONCERTOS, VOL. 8 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Gabor Takács-Nagy, Manchester Camerata)
• New Album Releases: OLIVER DAVIS - BLUE (Oliver Davis, Beth & Flo, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Paul Bateman)
• New Album Releases: LONG STORY SHORT - WILLIE NELSON 90 (Live at the Hollywood Bowl)
• New Album Releases: THE WHEEL (Rosanne Cash) - 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
• New Album Releases: THE SOUTHERN HARMONY AND MUSICAL COMPANION (The Black Crowes) - Deluxe Edition
• New Album Releases: VERISMO - PRELUDI E INTERMEZZI (Domingo Hindoyan & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra)
• New Album Releases: OWL SONG (Ambrose Akinmusire)
• New Album Releases: WEINBERG - DAWN; SYMPHONY No. 12 (John Storgårds, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra)
• New Album Releases: SIGNATURE (Joell Ortiz & L'Orange)
• New Album Releases: ARVO PART - ODES OF REPENTANCE (Cappella Romana & Alexander Lingas)
• New Album Releases: LEVIATHAN III (Therion)
• New Album Releases: MOZART - PIANO SONATAS K310-K311, K330-K333 (Angela Hewitt)