Dutilleux Henri - Trois Melodies Inedites - Chant and Piano

Singer François Le Roux brings us Three Posthumous Songs , writen in 1941 by Henri Dutilleux at the request of the great baritone Charles Panzéra. In L Ange pleureur (The Weeping Angel), a poem by Edmond Borsent, there are no tears but much irony as the chubby cherub frets over the dark deeds committed by the soul he must guard! Ronsard s Verses take a delicately archaic style to illustrate the poet s desire for young Angevin peasant girl Marie Dupin: starting out as pious believers, they soon frolic under the sheets as lovers. An excerpt from Rymes, written by Pernette du Guillet, a poetess from Lyon about whom very little is known, La Faute en est à toi (Love, Blame Yourself) brings a Renaissance feel to the graceful crochet-half note rhythm, with this third melody following in the footsteps of Ravel and Poulenc.