Anaïk Morel, the mezzo-soprano on this album, was a soloist at the Bayerische Staatsoper from 2008 to 2010 and has performed at major opera houses like Teatro alla Scala and the Salzburg Festival.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Koechlin had a visual conception of music, often 'seeing' the landscape or scenery of a poem as he set it to music.
Compositional Technique
Koechlin's musical settings of rondels, a fixed poetic form, are a condensed and free version of the traditional rondo form.
Performer Biography
Julien Behr, the tenor, was named 'révélation artiste lyrique' by ADAMI in 2009 and was nominated for the same award at the Victoires de la musique classique in 2013.
Composer Biography
Charles Koechlin, the composer, decided to dedicate himself exclusively to music late in life, after leaving the École Polytechnique, and studied composition with Massenet and Fauré.
Composition History
Most of the songs on this album were written between 1890 and 1909, during Charles Koechlin's early creative period.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Koechlin's early Rondels, featured on this album, anticipated the aesthetic of the future Groupe des Six, a group of young French composers active after 1920.
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