Viviane Hassler - Maren Gamper
Soprane - Piano
MÉLODIES D’AILLEURS
The duo’s first album entitled “Mélodies d’ailleurs” was released by Carpe Diem Records in May 2024. The CD is available physically and digitally. Listen to it here.
First reviews:
“Already in the six almost entirely melancholy Ariettes oubliées based on poems by Paul Verlaine by Claude Debussy, the young soprano’s advantages are evident, as she has no problems with the sometimes extreme intervallic leaps. (…) This continues in five songs by Ernest Chausson, which are somewhat simpler than Debussy’s, when different emotional states are also rendered here with perfect legato and thus extremely soft voice leading. (…) Four fine miniatures by Cécile Chaminade are performed with effervescent lightness and restrained dreaminess. The well-done CD concludes with five songs by Reynaldo Hahn, which are again performed with a natural purity of intonation and light voice leading in excellent partnership.”
Geerd Heinsen on operalounge.de (14.06.2024, translated from german)
