Louis Beydts: Mélodies & Songs

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Cyrille Dubois is unstoppable!After two albums dedicated to Liszt and then the Boulanger sisters, and a dazzling complete recording of Fauré's songs, here is the tenor back on his home turf: the French mélodie. He is reunited with his partner, pianist Tristan Raës, to rescue from oblivion the Bordeaux-born composer Louis Beydts (1895-1953), whose pieces are, for the most part, recorded here for the first time.From these miniatures polished like jewels, Cyrille Dubois draws out the sap of the musician's art: a pure product of French hedonism, refined and elegant, with generous vocalism... but also audacious, for Beydts denies himself nothing: echoes of jazz and light music, of Hahn or Fauré, polymodality and polytonality, his songs traverse everything with supreme freedom, between fantasy, humor and contemplation.In sweeping us into this singular universe, Cyrille Dubois establishes himself as the indispensable interpreter of the repertoire and a pioneer of French music, mastering like few others the union of word and music.