Gaubert: mélodies

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Gaubert. Timpani has already published three volumes dedicated to orchestral pages, several of which are world premieres. It is known how much this great conductor was also a born orchestrator. And we will not revisit his repertoire dedicated to the flute. We expected less from him in melody. But it would be to forget that throughout his life Gaubert composed for the voice, and he leaves us with more than 90 pages! The performers have chosen more than thirty, alternating the voices, and reflecting the composer's preferences regarding poets: Verlaine, Derème, Baudelaire, but especially Paul Fort (3 collections and a few other melodies). Is it surprising? There is in Gaubert a frankness, a direct tone, a hatred of convoluted sophistication, which brings him closer to the "prince of poets." Lionel Peintre has been collaborating with Timpani for twenty years (Cras, Caplet, Emmanuel, Pierné, Dupont...); Mélanie Boisvert is "Nicolette" in the Aucassin and Nicolette published by Timpani a year ago; as for Alain Jacquon, he is a loyal member of the label, with incomparable mastery and an innate sense of highlighting voices. A very great discovery.