Faure & His Poets

1. 2 Songs, Op. 1 - No. 1. Le Papillon et la Fleur
2. 3 Songs, Op. 5 - No. 2. Rêve d’amour
3. 3 Songs, Op. 5 - No. 1. Chant d'automne
4. 2 Songs, Op. 4 - No. 1. La Chanson du pêcheur
5. 3 Songs, Op. 6 - No. 2. Tristesse
6. 3 Songs, Op. 6 - No. 1. Aubade
7. 3 Songs, Op. 7 - No. 3. Barcarolle
8. 3 Songs, Op. 8 - No. 1. Au bord de l'eau
9. 3 Songs, Op. 7 - No. 1. Après un rêve
10. 2 Songs, Op. 2 - No. 2. Sérénade toscane
11. 3 Songs, Op. 6 - No. 3. Sylvie
12. 3 Songs, Op. 23 - No. 1. Les Berceaux
13. 3 Songs, Op. 23 - No. 2. Notre amour
14. 3 Songs, Op. 23 - No. 3. Le Secret
15. 4 Songs, Op. 39 - No. 1. Aurore
16. 4 Songs, Op. 39 - No. 4. Les Roses d’Ispahan
17. 2 Songs, Op. 43 - No. 2. Nocturne
18. 2 Songs, Op. 46 - No. 1. Les Présents
19. 2 Songs, Op. 46 - No. 2. Clair de lune
20. 4 Songs, Op. 51 - No. 1. Larmes
21. 4 Songs, Op. 51 - No. 2. Au cimetière
22. 4 Songs, Op. 51 - No. 4. La Rose
23. 5 Mélodies ‘de Venise’, Op. 58 - No. 1. Mandoline
24. 5 Mélodies ‘de Venise’, Op. 58 - No. 2. En sourdine
25. Sérénade du Bourgeois gentilhomme -
26. 2 Songs, Op. 83 - No. 2. Soir
27. 3 Songs, Op. 85 - No. 3. Accompagnement
28. 3 Songs, Op. 85 - No. 2. La Fleur qui va sur l’eau
29. 3 Songs, Op. 85 - No. 1. Dans la forêt de septembre
30. Le Don silencieux, Op. 92
31. Chanson, Op. 94

The poetic renewal embodied by Hugo, Baudelaire, Verlaine and so many others after them radically changed the musical landscape and propelled French art song into a true golden age. This tribute to Fauré, the supreme master of the mélodie, gains its radiance from Marc Mauillon’s ideally clear voice and Anne Le Bozec’s delicate pianism. The singer’s second ‘solo’ recording on harmonia mundi shows him just as much at home in Faurean word setting as in the text of Lambert’s Leçons de Ténèbres!