Marina Rebeka – Voyage
Marina Rebeka’s first recital album, with Mathieu Pordoy at the piano
An invitation to travel with the flair of 19th-century chamber music, written by French composers, female and male, sung in French, Italian, German, and Russian.
Some musical objects resist scholarly classifications. Straddling two genres or requiring an unusual membership, they escape the boxes in which we like to lock each score before carefully storing it in a thematic catalogue. The same goes for mélodies composed by French people on foreign texts: should they be considered as French mélodies? Are they losing their French character? Are they even still mélodies or do they become lieder, songs, or any other form specific to the language used?
By bringing together works by French musicians composed on French, Russian, German and Italian texts, or in the Tuscan dialect, this album encourages us to make a change of scale, to break the frames and respond to an invitation to travel.
Most of the mélodies in this recital were composed between 1860 and 1890, that is to say on the threshold of the Belle Époque and the Second Industrial Revolution.
Behind the mirage of national identities, we will perceive a European context conducive to dreams of escape and a cosmopolitanism embodied by great musical figures, such as Henri Duparc, Cécile Cheminade, Maurice Ravel, Camille Saint-Saëns, Charles- Marie Widor, Gabriel Fauré, Charles Gounod, and the extraordinarily talented female composers Marie Jaëll and Pauline Viardot.
Marina Rebeka and Mathieu Pordoy approach this eclectic repertoire using a rainbow of musical colors, succeeding indeed in capturing the very essence of each piece. An exquisite album for the musically curious and the armchair traveller alike.
THE ARTIST
CREDITS
Prima Classic PRIMA014 – Release on September 16th, 2022
Produced by Marina Rebeka and Mathieu Pordoy
Executive Producers: Edgardo Vertanessian and Marina Rebeka
Recording, Editing, Mixing, and Mastering: Edgardo Vertanessian
Assistant Engineer: Ivo Taurins
Recorded at the Latvian Radio Studio in Riga, Latvia, in May 2021
Artwork design: Andrew Vlasov
Photos: Tatyana Vlasova
Booklet design: Carlos Cester
Musicological consulting: Alexandre Dratwicki for Palazzetto Bru-Zane
This project was made with the support of the Palazzetto Bru-Zane
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