Anne Le Bozec and Marc Maurillon play Halphen, Hahn, Debussy...
They were young and seemed assured of a brilliant future. They were Belgian (Devaere), German (Stephan, Jürgens), British (Butterworth, Farrar), Australian (Kelly) or French. On the eve of the conflict, in their songs and with an impressive sense of foreboding, they expressed at once nostalgia for a bygone era, wrestling with the eternal themes of oblivion and death, and the sorrows of their lives about to be upended. The survivors, striving to overcome bitterness and sadness, found the strength to sing forth the hope or peace they felt themselves to be regaining.
| HORTUS 704 | CD DDD ℗ Hortus 2014 | T.T. 69’49 | ||
| Fernand Halphen (1872-1917) | ||
| 1. | Pour Cythère | 1’15 |
| Henry Février (1875-1957) | ||
| 2. | La dernière chanson | 4’57 |
| Jürgens (1888-1915) | ||
| 3. | Das Treue Paar | 2’21 |
| 4. | Der Geworbene | 2’22 |
| 5. | Deh Nicht | 1’40 |
| 6. | From | 2’46 |
| Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) | ||
| Trois chansons | ||
| 7. | Nicolette | 2’04 |
| 8. | Trois beaux oiseaux du paradis | 3’04 |
| George Butterworth (1885-1916) | ||
| 9. | On the idle hill of summer | 3’26 |
| 10. | Loveliest of trees | 2’33 |
| Frederick Septimus Kelly (1881-1916) | ||
| 11. | Shall I compare Thee ? | 3’02 |
| Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) | ||
| 12. | C’est la paix op.114 op. 114 | 1’17 |
| Ernest Farrar (1885-1918) | ||
| 3 pièces pour piano op. 23 | ||
| 13. | Menuet | 1’11 |
| 14. | Lullaby | 3’13 |
| 15. | Caprice | 1’24 |
| André Devaere (1890-1914) | ||
| 16. | La flûte amère de l’automne op. 1 | 2’08 |
| Rudi Stephan (1887-1915) | ||
| 17. | Pappel im Strahl | 1’44 |
| 18. | Heimat | 3’23 |
| Claude Debussy (1862-1918) | ||
| 19. | Noël des enfants qui n’ont plus de maison | 2’32 |
| Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947) | ||
| 20. | Le plus beau présent | 3’11 |
| Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942) | ||
| 5 Gesänge op. 39 | ||
| 21. | Langsam wandle Ich | 4’33 |
| 22. | Lass Mich | 1’03 |
| 23. | Nun versank der Abend | 3’00 |
| André Devaere (1890-1914) | ||
| 24. | Grave et poignant, pour piano | 5’37 |
| Rudi Stephan (1887-1915) | ||
| 25. | Abendfrieden | 3’40 |
| George Butterworth (1885-1916) | ||
| 26. | The lads in their hundreds | 2’10 |
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