Berio: Folk Songs
23:14
Labyrinth Ensemble
Anna Stéphany (mezzo-soprano)
Recorded: June 2017
Recording Venue: Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, SRF, Zurich, Switzerland
No. 1, Black Is the Colour
2:51
No. 2, I Wonder as I Wander
2:07
No. 3, Loosin yelav
3:10
No. 4, Rossignolet du bois
1:31
No. 5, Á la femminisca
1:22
No. 6, La donna ideale
1:25
No. 7, Ballo
1:30
No. 8, Motettu de tristura
3:00
No. 9, Malurous qu'o uno fenno
0:52
No. 10, Lo fiolaire
2:56
No. 11, Azerbaijan Love Song
2:30
Ravel: Introduction & Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet
10:58
Labyrinth Ensemble
Recorded: June 2017
Recording Venue: Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, SRF, Zurich, Switzerland
Ravel: Histoires naturelles, M. 50 (Arr. A. Lavandier for Voice & Chamber Ensemble)
19:10
Labyrinth Ensemble
Anna Stéphany (mezzo-soprano)
Recorded: June 2017
Recording Venue: Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, SRF, Zurich, Switzerland
No. 1, Le paon
5:24
No. 2, Le grillon
3:29
No. 3, Le cygne
3:29
No. 4, Le martin-pêcheur
3:15
No. 5, La pintade
3:33
Falla: Psyche
5:08
Labyrinth Ensemble
Anna Stéphany (mezzo-soprano)
Recorded: June 2017
Recording Venue: Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, SRF, Zurich, Switzerland
Alpha continues its collaboration with the Festival d Aix-en-Provence and its Academy, which will celebrate its twentieth anniversary in 2018. We invite you to discover artists of great talent who take us on a trip to Auvergne, Sicily, Armenia and Azerbaijan thanks to Luciano Berio's Folk Songs, to Andalusia with Falla's Psyché on a poem of Georges-Jean Aubry, and to the world of Jules Renard with Ravel's Histoires naturelles. The last-named are recorded in a version for chamber ensemble: Since Ravel gave Manuel Rosenthal to make an arrangement for large orchestra which we found rather overblown, we set out to find a chasseur d images (to quote the title of one of Renard's Histoires naturelles poems) who could transcribe the work without losing its intimate, delicate aspect. . . . We hope you will be as charmed as we are by Arthur Lavandier's work, which beautifully conveys the immensely refined timbres and nuances of Ravel , says the oboist Clément Noël, a member of the Swiss Ensemble Labyrinth.Anna Stéphany is a true revelation, performing this programme with the technique, the sensuality and the emotional impact that earned her a huge triumph in Mozart at last summer's Glyndebourne Festival.