Claude Debussy:
Trois mélodies de Paul Verlaine
Trois chansons de France

Jacques Ibert:
Chansons de Don Quichotte

Maurice Ravel:
Don Quichotte a Dulcinée

Henri Duparc:
Mélodies

After „Songs of Yearning" (HC16080), the current „Invitation au Voyage“ is the second album with Thomas Wise (piano) and Giorgos Kanaris (baritone) to be published by Hänssler Classic.

Giorgos Kanaris is a recitalist as well as an opera singer. Together with the conductor and pianist Thomas Wise he has given numerous recitals with works including Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Liederkreis, Schubert’s Schwanengesang, Winterreise and Die schöne Müllerin, Ravel’s Don Quichotte a Dulcinée and songs by Richard Strauss and Hans Pfitzner.

This recording provides a colourful collection of French poems by Paul Verlaine, Charles d’Orléans, Paul Morand, Charles Baudelaire and many more set to music by the leading French composers of their time.

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Recordings: 24. – 28. Juni 2019, Augustinum, Bonn, Eva Rommerskirchen, Künstlerische Leiterin