CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Trois ballades de François Villon
Le Promenoir des deux amants
Fantoches (Fêtes galantes I)
ALEXIS EMMANUEL CHABRIER
Les cigales
Ballade des gros dindons
Villanelle des petits canards
A l’île heureuse
MAURICE RAVEL
Chansons madécasses
REYNALDO HAHN
Quand je fus pris au Pavillon (Douze Rondels)
5 Chansons grises
L’Incrédule
Paysage
Phyllis (Études Latines)
Si mes vers avaient des ailes
Mai
Jacques Jansen, baritone
Maurice Gendron, cello (Ravel)
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute (Ravel)
Jacqueline Bonneau, piano
FIRST RELEASE ON DECCA CD
Recording Producer: John Culshaw
Recording Location: La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris, France, 3 September 1952
Remastering Engineer: Chris Bernauer
‘Jacques 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 Pelléas-like speech-song delivery … and Jacqueline Bonneau’s pellucid playing, make it a likeable and memorable reading.’ Alan Blyth, Song on Record 2 (CUP: 1988) (Chabrier, L’île heureuse)