Chausson / Cargill / Lepper - Fleur De Mon Ame - Music CD

Following their Linn debut, a 'breathtaking album of songs by Gustav and Alma Mahler' (The Herald), Karen Cargill and Simon Lepper return to fin-de-sicle Europe for a recital of songs by the 'crme de la crme' of late nineteenth-century French speaking composers. Entitled Fleur de mon me, the album embraces the sensual soundworld of Hahn, Debussy, Chausson, Jongen and Duparc. The album opens with Chloris which recalls the elegance of the seventeenth century before borrowing from the poetry of Ancient Greece in Chansons de Bilitis and setting sail on a calm sea with Chausson's Srnade italienne. Guest soloists from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra add orchestral colour to Chausson's Chanson perptuelle and Calmes, aux quais dserts by lesser-known Belgian composer Joseph Jongen. The compelling romanticism of Duparc's songs complete this bouquet of soul-searching French mlodies.