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The least that we can say here is that soprano Sandrine Piau refuses to be pigeonholed: she cheerfully steers a course from the German romanticism of Schumann, Wolf or Loewe; to Debussy, all the way to the near-Broadway work of André Prévin, by way of Poulenc, Gurney and Samuel Barber… Her crystal-clear voice rejects any vocal Italicisms (no glissandos, no cooing, no notes attacked from below, no parasitic diphthongs, and a carefully-controlled vibrato), so that we get nothing but the music – and the words of course, comprehensible regardless of the language. Her long experience of baroque song – and the world of Mozart, in which she excels – has given her magnificent rigour, but her broad repertoire, which she deploys here, is full of power, from the suavest pianissimo to the most imposing fortissimo. As for pianist Susan Manoff, she simply offers the best possible musical accompaniment to the repertoires of the Lied, of French mélodie, romance and art song: and she is especially unmissable here, alongside one of today's greatest French voices. © SM/Qobuz
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Lieder und Balladen (Carl Loewe)
Sandrine Piau, Soprano - Susan Manoff, Piano - Carl Loewe, Composer - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Lieder und Gesänge aus "Wilhelm Meister", Op. 98a (Robert Schumann)
Sandrine Piau, Soprano - Susan Manoff, Piano - Robert Schumann, Composer - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 127 (Robert Schumann)
Sandrine Piau, Soprano - Susan Manoff, Piano - Robert Schumann, Composer - Heinrich Heine, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Myrthen, op. 25 (Robert Schumann)
Sandrine Piau, Soprano - Susan Manoff, Piano - Robert Schumann, Composer - Heinrich Heine, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Fêtes galantes I (Claude Debussy)
Sandrine Piau, Soprano - Susan Manoff, Piano - Claude Debussy, Composer - Paul Verlaine, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Sandrine Piau, Soprano - Susan Manoff, Piano - Claude Debussy, Composer - Paul Verlaine, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Sandrine Piau, Soprano - Susan Manoff, Piano - Claude Debussy, Composer - Paul Verlaine, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Verschwiegene Liebe (Hugo Wolf)
Sandrine Piau, Soprano - Susan Manoff, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Joseph von Eichendorff, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Sandrine Piau, Soprano - Susan Manoff, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Eduard Mörike, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Sandrine Piau, Soprano - Susan Manoff, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Eduard Mörike, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Sandrine Piau, Soprano - Susan Manoff, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Eduard Mörike, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
5 Elizabethan Songs (Ivor Gurney)
Sandrine Piau, Soprano - Susan Manoff, Piano - Ivor Gurney, Composer - John Fletcher, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Heart! We Will Forget Him (Robert Baksa)
Sandrine Piau, Soprano - Susan Manoff, Piano - Robert Baksa, Composer - Emily Dickinson, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Banalités, FP 107 (Francis Poulenc)
Sandrine Piau, Soprano - Susan Manoff, Piano - Francis Poulenc, Composer - Guillaume Apollinaire, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Sandrine Piau, Soprano - Susan Manoff, Piano - Francis Poulenc, Composer - Guillaume Apollinaire, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Sandrine Piau, Soprano - Susan Manoff, Piano - Francis Poulenc, Composer - Guillaume Apollinaire, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Sandrine Piau, Soprano - Susan Manoff, Piano - Francis Poulenc, Composer - Guillaume Apollinaire, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Sandrine Piau, Soprano - Susan Manoff, Piano - Francis Poulenc, Composer - Guillaume Apollinaire, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Despite and Still, Op. 41 (Samuel Barber)
Sandrine Piau, Soprano - Susan Manoff, Piano - Samuel Barber, Composer - James Joyce, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Métamorphoses, FP 121 (Francis Poulenc)
Sandrine Piau, Soprano - Susan Manoff, Piano - Francis Poulenc, Composer - Louise de Vilmorin, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Three Dickinson Songs (André Previn)
Sandrine Piau, Soprano - Susan Manoff, Piano - André Prévin, Composer - Emily Dickinson, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Sandrine Piau, Soprano - Susan Manoff, Piano - André Prévin, Composer - Emily Dickinson, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Sandrine Piau, Soprano - Susan Manoff, Piano - André Prévin, Composer - Emily Dickinson, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Album review
The least that we can say here is that soprano Sandrine Piau refuses to be pigeonholed: she cheerfully steers a course from the German romanticism of Schumann, Wolf or Loewe; to Debussy, all the way to the near-Broadway work of André Prévin, by way of Poulenc, Gurney and Samuel Barber… Her crystal-clear voice rejects any vocal Italicisms (no glissandos, no cooing, no notes attacked from below, no parasitic diphthongs, and a carefully-controlled vibrato), so that we get nothing but the music – and the words of course, comprehensible regardless of the language. Her long experience of baroque song – and the world of Mozart, in which she excels – has given her magnificent rigour, but her broad repertoire, which she deploys here, is full of power, from the suavest pianissimo to the most imposing fortissimo. As for pianist Susan Manoff, she simply offers the best possible musical accompaniment to the repertoires of the Lied, of French mélodie, romance and art song: and she is especially unmissable here, alongside one of today's greatest French voices. © SM/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 23 track(s)
- Total length: 00:58:17
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Sandrine Piau Susan Manoff
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Alpha Classics
- Genre: Classical Secular Vocal Music
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
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