FLAC tracks +Booklet | Classical | 01:04:50 | 266 MbIn 2016 Sarah Defrise unearthed more than twenty unpublished songs by Joseph Jongen (1873-1953), some of them preserved amongst the composer’s private papers.

Such a discovery is an important event in the Belgian musical landscape.

This young soprano now offers the first complete recording of these songs, of which this constitutes the first volume.

We have chosen to focus on works from both the composer’s youth and his maturity.

This album therefore presents an unpublished cycle of setting of poems by Armand Silvestre (1892), the famous cycle op.

25 (1902), from which the first song had always previously been missing, and a selection of later songs dating from 1909 to 1928.

Jongen’s sensitive and subtle art is carried by the intelligent and luminous performance by the duo formed by Sarah with the English pianist Craig White.

Tracklist:01. Six melodies, Op. 25 Lys-Chrysanthemes02. Six melodies, Op. 25 Apres un reve03. Six melodies, Op. 25 Ferveur printaniere04. Six melodies, Op. 25 Chanson roumaine05. Six melodies, Op. 25 Chanson d’automne06. Six melodies, Op. 25 Bal de fleurs07. Sept melodies d’Armand Silvestre Reveries08. Sept melodies d’Armand Silvestre Avril09. Sept melodies d’Armand Silvestre Mignonne10. Sept melodies d’Armand Silvestre Les etoiles effarouchees11. Sept melodies d’Armand Silvestre Voici que les grands lis12. Sept melodies d’Armand Silvestre Pourquoi13. Sept melodies d’Armand Silvestre Bonsoir14. Six melodies de maturite Dans son ecrin15. Six melodies de maturite Paix16. Six melodies de maturite Ninon17. Six melodies de maturite Entrevisions18. Six melodies de maturite Si tu me quittes un jour19. Six melodies de maturite Rouge20. Les Malureus