Jacques Jansen - The Decca Recitals [CD]

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FIRST RELEASE ON DECCA CD\r
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\u2018Jansen is Pell\xe9as,\u2019 wrote Eduardo Arnosi in a love-letter to Roger Desormi\xe8re\u2019s still-unsurpassed first recording (Opera magazine, September 1999), and few would demur. There was, however, much more to Jacques Jansen than the refined ardour and spontaneity of this 1941 recording.\r
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Just over a decade later, Decca producer John Culshaw spent a day in Paris at the studio used by Radio France, recording the still-youthful Jansen (1913\u20132002) in songs of Debussy, Chabrier, Ravel and Hahn which would be issued on two albums in 1953 and 1955. Pell\xe9as remained his signature role \u2013 at a Rome production in 1956 he was praised for his \u2018youth, good looks and sensitive musicianship\u2019 (Opera magazine, June 1956) \u2013 and he would still be singing it in 1969 before retiring from the stage to teach at the Paris Conservatoire. However, the broader appeal of Leh\xe1r\u2019s The Merry Widow gave him cause to sing Danilo on around 1500 occasions in France, and it is the dry, champagne wit sharpened by operetta that distinguishes this song recital, which is now issued for the first time on CD. \r
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Jansen had an innate feeling for the throwaway perfection of Reynaldo Hahn\u2019s word-setting: at the opera in Qu\xe9bec he also both starred in and produced the sparkling Ciboulette. In his booklet-note appreciation, Tully Potter remarks on the \u2018sharply edged\u2019 character of Jansen\u2019s singing, and the unusually dramatic profile given to songs too often casually dismissed as trivial.\r
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\u2018Jacques Jansen uses the text in such an intimate way that one feels this telling of a single love is directed just at the single listener. His Pell\xe9as-like speech-song delivery \u2026 and Jacqueline Bonneau\u2019s pellucid playing, make it a likeable and memorable reading.\u2019 Alan Blyth, Song on Record 2 (CUP: 1988) (Chabrier, L\u2019\xeele heureuse)

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Le Promenoir Des Deux Amants

Fantoches (F\xeates Galantes I)

ALEXIS EMMANUEL CHABRIER - Les Cigales

Ballade Des Gros Dindons

Villanelle Des Petits Canards

A L\u2019\xeele Heureuse

MAURICE RAVEL: Chansons Mad\xe9casses

REYNALDO HAHN - Quand Je Fus Pris Au Pavillon (Douze Rondels)

5 Chansons Grises

L\u2019Incr\xe9dule

Paysage

Phyllis (\xc9tudes Latines)

Si Mes Vers Avaient Des Ailes

Mai