Isabelle Druet and Anne Le Bozec - Shakespeare Songs (2016)

What is more legitimate than the fourth centenary of Shakespeare's death in 1616, is an album of melodies whose texts or subjects are taken from the inexhaustible treasure chest that is the work of the Stratford bard: Of legend - Ophelia, Desdemona, Shylock -, famous tirades, without forgetting his unforgettable sonnets, for four centuries that composers seize them with eagerness. The mezzo Isabelle Druet and her pianist Anne Le Bozec have chosen a few great hits (Schubert, Fauré, Schumann, Brahms, Sibelius), but also several works by musicians less often tackled such as Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Korngold or Gurney whose production Is far, far from being negligible. Druet plays with her magnificent vocal range ranging from murmuring to explosion, from joy to despair, all in several languages of which she seems to master the pronunciations with great agility.

TRACKLIST

01. Castelnuovo-tedesco: Arise
02. Castelnuovo-tedesco: Old Song
03. Castelnuovo-tedesco: Seals Of Love
04. Castelnuovo-tedesco: Apemantus S Grace
05. Castelnuovo-tedesco: Ophelia
06. Berlioz: La Mort D Ophélie
07. Chausson: Chanson De Clowns
08. Chausson: Chanson D Amour
09. Chausson: Chanson D Ophélie
10. Saint-saëns: La Mort D Ophélie
11. Brahms: 5 Ophelia Lieder
12. Schubert: An Silvia
13. Schubert: Ständchen
14. Poulenc: Fancy
15. Gurney: Under The Greenwood Tree
16. Gurney: Orpheus
17. Fauré: Chanson De Shylock
18. Sibelius: Kom Nu Hit Död
19. Sibelius: Hallila
20. Wolf: Lied Des Transferierten Zettel
21. Schumann: Schlusslied Des Narren
22. Korngold: Come Away, Death
23. Korngold: Desdemona
24. Korngold: When Birds Do Sing